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 of hardware and software architecture upgrades to mitigate obsolescence and data throughput constraints to include Flight Control Computer, Cockpit Interface Unit, and Flight Test Interface Panel. Software language upgrade development in the Cross Channel Data Link and Flight Control Computer Operational Flight program from assembly language to a Higher Order Language for future software maintenance efficiency and capability. Continues Nonrecurring engineering to implement critical design review functions, mature box level design and validate all technical requirements in the lab leading up to test readiness review to go to aircraft developmental test. Starting initial aircraft developmental testing first in lab simulations and then on test aircraft. Begins flight controls augmented capability which improves safety and handling of platform by reducing workload in critical places like degraded visual environment/reduced visual landing, aerial refueling, shipboard operations, and inclement weather situations through hardware and software changes.
V-22 Flight Control System Re-design: Increase in FY 2027 is due to additional funding in support of the development of tactile feedback cues to alert aircrew of performance limits, while enabling override if needed, through redesign of flight controls, FCS software, and the electrical system.
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.
Continues development of hardware and software architecture upgrades to mitigate obsolescence and data throughput constraints to include Flight Control Computer, Cockpit Interface Unit, and Flight Test Interface Panel. Software language upgrade development in the Cross Channel Data Link and Flight Control Computer Operational Flight program from assembly language to a Higher Order Language for future software maintenance efficiency and capability. Continues Nonrecurring engineering to implement critical design review functions, mature box level design and validate all technical requirements in the lab leading up to test readiness review to go to aircraft developmental test. Starting initial aircraft developmental testing first in lab simulations and then on test aircraft.
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 | 14.8 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 32.1 |
| FY2027 | Request | 41.2 |
This activity is 17% of project 3090's FY2027 request and 16% 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.