What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 3090 of PE 0604262N. 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.
Continues development in support of V-22 Block upgrades, time on wing/reliability improvements such as testing of Additive Manufacturing processes for selected V-22 components, Aircraft Mission Maneuvering Envelope Expansion, and Safety Improvement efforts. Continues engineering, logistics, flight test, flight test support, and addresses correction of deficiencies and obsolescence efforts such as fuel cell. Continues reliability improvement efforts including but not limited to development of a NexGen Mission Planning System, as well as re-design efforts to correct critical reliability, maintainability, and availability issues in support of readiness. Continues software development efforts.
Decrease in FY 2027 for Airframe Hardware Development is due to completion of fuel cell redesign effort and transitioning to procurement funds.
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.
Begin Cockpit Alert Indicator non-recurring engineering re-design effort. Continues development in support of V-22 Block upgrades, time on wing/reliability improvements such as testing of Additive Manufacturing processes for selected V-22 components, Aircraft Mission Maneuvering Envelope Expansion, and Safety Improvement efforts. Continues engineering, logistics, flight test, flight test support, and addresses correction of deficiencies and obsolescence efforts such as fuel cell. Continues reliability improvement efforts including but not limited to Infrared Suppressor re-design, as well as re-design efforts to correct critical reliability, maintainability, and availability issues in support of readiness. Continues software development 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 | 10.5 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 24.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 14.9 |
This activity is 6.2% of project 3090's FY2027 request and 5.9% of PE 0604262N'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.
8 activities in project 3090
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.