What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project MD29 of PE 0604181C. This is the budget justification's own description of work that has not happened yet — the one thing no other level of the budget carries.
Leverage and Upgrade Existing Systems: - Continue engineering, planning, and foundational upgrades to land and sea-based capability to support acceleration of regional and homeland Aegis Glide Phase Interceptor capability. - Provide BOA and C2BMC algorithm development and prototyping for low latency tracks as foundational efforts to support Glide Phase Interceptor Hypersonic Defense efforts. - Provide software processing improvements to enable low latency fire control tracking. - Purchase materials to support needed BOA and C2BMC upgrades to support hypersonic defense and Glide Phase Interceptor fire control tracking.
The increase includes the transfer of funding from R-2a Accomplishment (Regional Hypersonic Missile Defense Capability) to this R-2a Accomplishment (Hypersonic Missile Defense Capability) to better reflect the regional and homeland defense capability of the Glide Phase Interceptor. The increase also provides for C2BMC and BOA support for hypersonic low latency tracking and Battle Management to enable glide phase defense capability from an Aegis ship.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
- No funding is requested in FY 2026.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 205.7 |
This activity is 100% of project MD29's FY2027 request and 96% of PE 0604181C's. In the request year the activities under a project sum to it exactly; in the current year they under-cover it in about 9% of cases, so an activity's delta can legitimately exceed its parent's and the two must not be compared row to row.
2 activities in project MD29
Every R-2A line of this project, largest FY2027 request first. Linked where the activity has enough of its own narrative to carry a page; the rest are shown in full on the project page.