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.
Completion of DSSC-5.2 development test and correction of deficiencies. Continue development of ESTEL E-2D Block II capabilities to support HECTR and TCID system integration and future DT/OT. Continue to develop and improve LVC capabilities to replicate previous flight events in the lab environment with captured inflight data and to support large scale System of System (SoS) test efforts. Continue LVC development of the TCTS II Internal Mount to incorporate TCTS capability into the E-2D to include integration design work into the aircraft. Continue to incorporate E-2D Cyber warfare program protection needed to pace future threats for critical capabilities in support of DSSC builds. Continue to support Advance Development efforts to demonstrate and evaluate new hardware and software capabilities for future aircraft integration. Continue E-2D DSSC-6/Block II test aircraft development.
Decrease from FY2026 to FY2027 of $26.164 million due to completion of DSSC-5.2 development test.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
Funds provided to continue DSSC-5.2 development test and correction of deficiencies. Continue development of ESTEL DSSC 6 capabilities to support HECTR and TCID system integration and future DT/OT. Continue to incorporate E-2D Cyber warfare program protection needed to pace future threats for critical capabilities in support of DSSC builds. Continue development of Fleet aircrew DSSC and system specific training procedures. Develop and improve LVC capabilities to replicate previous flight events in the lab environment with captured inflight data and to support large scale System of System (SoS) test efforts. Continue to support Advance Development efforts to demonstrate and evaluate new hardware and software capabilities for future aircraft integration. Begin DSSC-6 test aircraft development. Test aircraft will require a minimum of 12 months for installation.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 83.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 121.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 95.3 |
This activity is 24% of project 3051's FY2027 request and 24% 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.