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.
Develop and execute comprehensive obsolescence mitigation strategies to address critical issues in major avionics components, while modernizing cockpit hardware and software to enhance functionality and ensure long-term system sustainability. VeCToR will replace flight-critical cockpit displays, resolve closed architecture constraints, and enhance modularity and capability in mission computer processing and display user interfaces. The upgrades will be compliant with MOSA, enabling future obsolescence and DMSMS tolerance, rapid integration of new software-based capabilities, and seamless communication with current and future aircraft databus interfaces. Additionally, a digital backbone infrastructure will be incorporated into the MV-22 to support the rapid fielding of future capabilities. Key components to be addressed include, but are not limited to, the Control Display Unit (CDU), CDU keyboard, Flight Director Panel, and Emergency Standby Flight Indicator (ESFI).
V-22 Cockpit Technology Refresh (VeCToR): Increase in FY 2027 is due to additional funding provided in support of comprehensive review recommendation to develop and implement V-22 mid-life upgrade 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 | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 93.9 |
This activity is 39% of project 3090's FY2027 request and 37% 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.