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 to improve assessments of strategic system capabilities/vulnerabilities related to air-delivered, ground-based nuclear weapon systems, and NC3. • Continue to evaluate and analyze to address current and future threats that include, but are not limited to, kinetic, electronic warfare, cyber, and supply chain exploitation. Assessments will include focused intelligence analyses, nuclear weapon system fragility analyses, vulnerability modes and effects analyses, nuclear hardness assessments, M&S, and combined environments testing. Data from these evaluations will be used in the development of requirements, future system concepts, CONOPS, and TTPs as well as support the CNI Implementation Plan and path forward.
Decrease in funding due to re-prioritization decisions within nuclear modernization initiative.
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.
• Assess strategic system capabilities/vulnerabilities related to air-delivered, ground-based nuclear weapon systems, and NC3. • Evaluate and analyze current and future threats that include, but are not limited to, kinetic, electronic warfare, cyber, human factors and supply chain exploitation. Assessments will include focused intelligence analyses, nuclear weapon system fragility analyses, vulnerability modes and effects analyses, nuclear hardness assessments, and M&S. Data from these evaluations will be used in the development of requirements, future system concepts, CONOPS, and TTPs as well as support the CNI Implementation Plan and path forward. • Conduct combined nuclear effects and verification testing of susceptibilities and vulnerabilities of strategic systems. The empirical data generated from testing will be used to validate the development of requirements, future system concepts, CONOPS, and TTPs as well as support the CNI Implementation Plan and path forward.
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 | 16.4 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 18.1 |
| FY2027 | Request | 13.5 |
This activity is 17% of project 654807's FY2027 request and 15% 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.