# Capability Strategy Development

**R-2A activity** of project 653133 — Armament Subsystems  
**Program element:** 0604200F — Armament Subsystems  
**Component:** U.S. Air Force · **Budget Activity:** 5  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604200F/653133/a0  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604200F

## Summary

This activity requests $22.1M in FY2027, 63% of project 653133, down 36% on FY2026. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2026–FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2027 planned work.** 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.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Funding decreased due to the Software Defined Radio element transition from Disruptive Future Division to Long Range Strike.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** 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.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 4.2 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 34.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 22.1 |

> Prior, current and budget year only — an R-2A activity carries no five-year plan. It sums exactly into its project in the request year and not necessarily in any other.

## Other activities in project 653133

- Warfighter Analytics — FY2027 9.7
- Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis — FY2027 3.4
- Industry Connectivity/Technology Transitions — FY2027 0.0

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0604200F project 653133 (PB PB2027). Narrative is the government's own text.
- **No marks, no contractors at this grain** — congressional marks land on the program element and R-3 performers on the project.
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_activity`.

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