What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 0480 of PE 0604261N. 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.
Conclude FR-115 DT/OT. Initiate Tactical Open Mission Systems (TOMS) software changes to add the SSQ-145 receiver. Conduct USAB1 DDVLA sonobuoy (SSQ-145) Critical Design Review (CDR).
FY 2026 to FY 2027 decrease incorporates reductions for higher priorities.
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.
MAC-E and USA Blk 1: Conclude MAC-E Operational Testing (OT) concurrent with P-8A OT and IOC MAC-E in Q1/FY26. Continue software improvements for incorporation into the P-8A Training system associated with MAC-E. Conduct data gathering events, data collection and analysis for USA Blk 1. Continue risk reduction prototype engineering and development for USA Blk 1 System-of-Systems capabilities and initiate USA Blk 1 AOFP software development. Conduct MS-B to enable acceleration of program and initiate contracts for the DDVLA sonobuoy (SSQ-145) and AOFP software.
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 | 36.7 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 37.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 35.9 |
This activity is 89% of project 0480's FY2027 request and 73% of PE 0604261N'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.
2 activities in project 0480
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.