What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 1130 of PE 0604230N. 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 engineering change development, testing and implementation for the Spiral 1 air system program. Continue the vendor-based expansion effort by completing design phase and producing prototypes air systems. Complete air system Spiral 2 software fielding.
Increase in FY 2027 is due to the acceleration of the air system development efforts focused on vendor-based expansion, producing initial vendor base expansion prototypes, spiral 2 software, and engineering changes requests.
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.
The FY 2026 request for (PROJ: 1130) Expeditionary Loitering Munitions Capability Development with $731 thousands of discretionary and $37,300 thousands of mandatory for a total of $38,031 thousand.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 60.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 48.9 |
This activity is 80% of project 1130's FY2027 request and 67% of PE 0604230N'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.
3 activities in project 1130
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.