# V-22 Flight Control System (FCS) Re-Design

**R-2A activity** of project 3090 — V-22 Improvement Program  
**Program element:** 0604262N — V-22A  
**Component:** U.S. Navy · **Budget Activity:** 5  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604262N/3090/a2  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604262N/3090

## Summary

This activity requests $41.2M in FY2027, 17% of project 3090, up 28% on FY2026. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2026–FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2027 planned work.** 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.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** 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.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** 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.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 14.8 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 32.1 |
| FY2027 | Request | 41.2 |

> Prior, current and budget year only — an R-2A activity carries no five-year plan. It sums exactly into its project in the request year and not necessarily in any other.

## Other activities in project 3090

- [VeCToR](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604262N/3090/a6) — FY2027 93.9
- [ReVAMP](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604262N/3090/a7) — FY2027 47.5
- [V-22 Development Support, Test, and Evaluation](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604262N/3090/a5) — FY2027 35.4
- [V-22 Airframe Hardware Development](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604262N/3090/a0) — FY2027 14.9
- V-22 Open Systems Architecture/Cyber Security — FY2027 5.3
- V-22 Propulsion / Mission Care Hardware Development — FY2027 2.2
- V-22 Joint Avionics Reconfigurable Virtual Information System (JARVIS) — FY2027 0.0

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Navy RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0604262N project 3090 (PB PB2027). Narrative is the government's own text.
- **No marks, no contractors at this grain** — congressional marks land on the program element and R-3 performers on the project.
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_activity`.

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