What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 3260 of PE 0604231N. 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.
Take the prototyping efforts started in FY 2026 and complete work on the initial MVP capability set.
FY 2026 to FY 2027 increase ($14.848) is to support configuration and deployment, as well as support the remainder of testing and development necessary to achieve an MVP.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
Complete competitive Other Transaction Authority (OTA) agreements piloting and prototyping of COTS solutions, application integration, testing, and perform Government demonstrations at designed Maritime and Aviation activities, which will inform a decision by ASN(RDA) to consider OTA follow-on configuration, application integration, testing, training, and Government User Acceptance Testing (UAT). Obtain Unclassified Authority to Operate (ATO) for the common platform hosting environment and data exchange solution to support LOG IT deployments.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 91.2 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 19.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 34.8 |
This activity is 69% of project 3260's FY2027 request and 47% of PE 0604231N'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 3260
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.