What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 653133 of PE 0604200F. 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.
Continue Software Defined Radio NSA Certification Efforts and radio development, Common Flight Safety System development and environmental testing. Continue Long Range Kill Chain Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis tool development. Continue prototyping and demonstrations of adaptable affordable mass weapon systems, subsystems, and components to prove feasibility and manufacturability. Plan and prepare for prototype transition activities into air-to-air, long-range strike, and maritime strike mission areas as appropriate. Continue to incentivize industry base implementation of agile, adaptable acquisition tenants such as modular open systems architecture, digital engineering, and advanced manufacturing for future weapon capabilities.
Funding decreased due to the Software Defined Radio element transition from Disruptive Future Division to Long Range Strike.
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.
Made progress with the Software Defined Radio, Common Flight Safety System and other projects directed to these efforts. Continued to conduct experiments and demonstrations of kinetic and directed energy weapon concepts to prove feasibility and facilitate transition in air to air, long range strike, and maritime strike mission areas. Evaluated industrial base implementation of agile acquisition initiatives like open systems architecture and digital engineering for future capabilities. Explored low-cost initiatives such as ground-launched and air-to-air.
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 | 4.2 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 34.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 22.1 |
This activity is 63% of project 653133's FY2027 request and 63% of PE 0604200F'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.
4 activities in project 653133
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 program-element page.