What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 3051 of PE 0604234N. 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.
The E-2D program will continue improvement efforts to maintain aircraft readiness. The program will continue to address known, predicted and emergent obsolescence equipment issues. The full scale fatigue program will complete teardown analysis, continue to conduct additional coupon panel testing and evaluate propeller fatigue. The objective is to reduce the number of required inspections and reduce the maintenance burden placed on the fleet.
Decrease from FY2026 to FY2027 of $1.928 million due to completion of teardown analysis.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
The E-2D program will continue improvement efforts to maintain aircraft readiness. The program will continue to address known, predicted and emergent obsolescence equipment issues. The full scale fatigue program will continue with the teardown phase whereas the test article will be disassembled and examined. The program will conduct additional coupon panel testing and evaluate propeller fatigue. The objective is to reduce the number of required inspections and reduce the maintenance burden placed on the fleet.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 10.2 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 12.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 11.0 |
This activity is 2.8% of project 3051's FY2027 request and 2.8% of PE 0604234N'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 3051
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.