What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 654807 of PE 0604222F. 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 development, modernization, verification, and validation of M&S tools (to include integration with other DoW M&S tools). • Continue to develop rigorous methods and tools for testing and predictive response to nuclear effects as they relate to the expected operational environments. • Continue analysis to establish survivability/hardness requirements for current and future delivery aircraft, support aircraft, weapon systems (to include facilities and support equipment), ICBMs, and NC3 assets. • Continue to expand development of methods and tools used to assure weapon effectiveness in operationally relevant environments. • Continue to support AFGSC EMP Survivability Program execution per DAFI 10-2601 to include developing testing strategies, test plans, instrumentation plans, identification of possible mitigation strategies, coordination of test execution, and assessing resource requirements, shortfalls and prioritization • Continue to provide hardness/survivability analysis and subject matter expertise supporting CNI planning, strategies, exercises, and wargaming.
Funding increase is due to expanded testing requirements and activities.
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.
• Development, modernization, verification, and validation of M&S tools (to include integration with other DoW M&S tools). • Develop rigorous methods and tools for testing and predictive response to nuclear effects as they relate to the expected operational environments. • Analysis to establish hardness requirements for current and future delivery aircraft, support aircraft, weapon systems (to include facilities and support equipment), ICBMs, and NC3 assets. • Expand development of methods and tools used to assure weapon effectiveness in operationally relevant environments. • Support AFGSC EMP Survivability Program execution per DAFI 10-2601 to include developing testing strategies and assessing resource requirements, shortfalls and prioritization • Provide hardness/survivability analysis and subject matter expertise supporting Conventional-Nuclear Integration (CNI) planning, strategies, and wargaming.
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 | 7.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 15.1 |
| FY2027 | Request | 17.9 |
This activity is 23% of project 654807's FY2027 request and 21% of PE 0604222F'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 654807
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.