What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 651030 of PE 0604201F. 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.
Resume development and testing of the F-16 Large Form Factor (LFF) and testing and integration of the B-52 MFF. Begin development and testing for AC/MC-130J, C-130J, C-17, KC-135, and SAOC platforms. Continue validation of software development iso a reproducible, government-owned Level 3 Technical Data Package and execute Functional Configuration Audit/Physical Configuration Audits to enable future competitive procurement.
Funding increased due to additional form factor (LFF) development and additional platforms (F-16, B-52, AC/MC-130J, C-130J, C-17, KC-135, and SAOC).
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.
Continue testing and integration of F-15 Medium Form Factor (MFF) PRUs to prepare for production decision and subsequent fielding. Continue validation of software development iso a reproducible, government-owned Level 3 Technical Data Package and execute Functional Configuration Audit/Physical Configuration Audits to enable future competitive procurement.
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 | 107.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 46.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 168.3 |
This activity is 24% of project 651030's FY2027 request and 24% of PE 0604201F'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.
9 activities in project 651030
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.