What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 3359 of PE 0604245M. 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.
Avionics will continue with software integration, system integration laboratories, development testing and Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) activities associated with SCS. Continue design, development and testing for Digital Interoperability (DI) improvements, to include Adaptive Network Wideband Waveform 2 (ANW-2), Link-16 Mission Commander/Strike Intercept (J12), portable tablet improvements for Marine Air-Ground Task Force, Advanced Data Transfer System (ADTS), Small Tactical Terminal (STT), and a switch and Cross Domain Solution (CDS) that support NSA security requirements for airborne networks. Continue Digital Interoperability (DI) development of Net enabled weapons control (J.11) to enable receiving and transmitting near real-time battlefield tactical intelligence and targeting information. Begin Digital Interoperability (DI) Increment III hardware and software efforts that are compatible with Proliferated Low Earth Orbit (pLEO). Continue to develop and test communication solutions for inclusion of Variable Message Format (VMF) for ARC-210 RT-1939 / RT-2036 Radios. Avionics components / systems obsolescence mitigation efforts including, Health and Usage Monitoring System (HUMS), peculiar avionics support equipment, automatic test equipment, Digital Interoperability, and mission computer SCS improvements. Continue enhancement of digital map and data storage capabilities, digital video recording, display systems, digital systems upgrade. Continue design, development, and test on Terrain Awareness Warning System (TAWS) II. Develop Embedded Global Positioning System (GPS)/Inertial Navigation System (INS) Modernization; or EGI-M, to provide open architecture that enables rapid responses to future threats. The fully modernized system integrates new M-Code capable GPS receivers, providing interoperability with civil controlled air space, and implements a new resilient time capability and will include a federated Radar Altimeter (RADALT) solution. Avionics improvements include test asset components to support software and cybersecurity testing efforts.
FY2026 to FY2027 increase to Avionics supports H-1 Modernization efforts to includes Health and Usage Monitoring System (HUMS) and Digital Interoperability (DI) - pLEO. Additionally, Avionics will managing obsolescence and integrating next-generation systems for navigation, safety, and mission processing.
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.
Continue with software integration, system integration laboratories, Development Testing (DT) activities associated with SCS and Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE). Continue design, development and testing for Digital Interoperability (DI) improvements, to include Adaptive Network Wideband Waveform 2 (ANW-2) UH-1Y Aft Cabin Display for situational awareness, portable tablet improvements for Marine Air-Ground Task, Advanced Data Transfer System (ADTS), Small Tactical Terminal (STT), and a switch and Cross Domain Solution (CDS) that support NSA security requirements for airborne networks. Begin Digital Interoperability (DI) development of Net enabled weapons control (J.11) to enable receiving and transmitting near real-time battlefield tactical intelligence and targeting information. Continue to develop and test communication solutions for inclusion of Variable Message Format (VMF) for ARC-210 RT-1939 / RT-2036 Radios. Avionics components / systems obsolescence mitigation efforts including, Health and Monitoring System Upgrade (HMU), peculiar avionics support equipment, automatic test equipment and mission computer SCS improvements. Continue enhancement of digital map and data storage capabilities, digital video recording, display systems, digital systems upgrades. Continue design and development on Terrain Awareness Warning System (TAWS). Develop Embedded Global Positioning System (GPS)/Inertial Navigation System (INS) Modernization; or EGI-M, to provide open architecture that enables rapid responses to future threats. The fully modernized system integrates new M-Code capable GPS receivers, provides interoperability with civil controlled air space, and implements a new resilient time capability and will include a federated Radar Altimeter (RADALT) solution. Avionics improvements include test asset components to support software and cybersecurity testing efforts.
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 | 26.1 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 41.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 56.9 |
This activity is 86% of project 3359's FY2027 request and 86% of PE 0604245M'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 3359
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 program-element page.