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 develop capabilities to optimize nuclear certification activities within the digital environment including transitioning from a compliance-based to risk-informed certification process. This includes the use of advanced computational approaches (e.g., artificial intelligence), and automated toolsets/algorithms to assist certifiers in assessing nuclear weapon system compliance with the four DoW surety standards and ensure DoW system compatibility with DOE systems, as well as proper requirements definition and allocation. • Continue investment in capabilities to test and assess delivery platforms compatibility with nuclear weapon systems to include the sustainment, modernization, and recapitalization of test devices for certification of current and future systems. • Continue improving nuclear certification-specific data analysis capabilities (tools) to match growing weapon system complexity. • Continue independent technical analyses to execute on-time certification activities for F-35A, B-21, LRSO missile, Sentinel, B-52H, modernized ICBM Fuze, B61-13, and seven Weapon Generation Facilities. • Support DoW-requested capability growth for the NCAT analysis tool to optimize resource loading, program deconfliction, and to provide senior leader insight into nuclear certification status. • Support Air Force efforts to adapt and incorporate new surety requirements associated with Department of War updates to DODD 3150.02.
Increase in funding due to a ramp of nuclear modernization initiatives being prioritized over other efforts
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.
• Develop capabilities to optimize nuclear certification activities within the digital environment including transitioning from a compliance-based to risk-informed certification process. This includes the use of advanced computational approaches (e.g., artificial intelligence), and automated toolsets/algorithms to assist certifiers in assessing nuclear weapon system compliance with the four DoW surety standards and ensure DoW system compatibility with DOE systems, as well as proper requirements definition and allocation. • Invest in capabilities to test and assess delivery platforms compatibility with nuclear weapon systems to include the sustainment, modernization, and recapitalization of test devices for certification of current and future systems. • Invest in and improve nuclear certification-specific data analysis capabilities (tools) to match growing weapon system complexity. • Conduct independent technical analyses to execute on-time certification activities for F-35A, B-21, LRSO missile, Sentinel, B-52H, modernized ICBM Fuze, B61-13, and seven Weapon Generation Facilities. • Support DoW-requested capability growth for the NCAT analysis tool to optimize resource loading, program deconfliction, and to provide senior leader insight into nuclear certification status. • Support Air Force efforts to adapt and incorporate new surety requirements associated with OSW(NM) update of DODD 3150.02.
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 | 40.4 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 40.2 |
| FY2027 | Request | 43.9 |
This activity is 57% of project 654807's FY2027 request and 51% 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.