What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 3063 of PE 0604269N. 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.
Developmental testing and integration of Growler Block II (GB2) Phase 1 in both laboratory and flight environments moves to start of iterative capability improvement. Operational testing of Growler Block 2 Phase 1 completes. Continue GB2 Phase 2 EMD phase activities to include purchase of test asset material, integration and developmental testing of the Beowulf iLEF, MFA, and a Sensor Control Unit (SCU) in preparation for GB2 Phase 2 CDR.
FY2026 to FY2027 decrease of ($44.443M) due to ramp-down and completion of Next Generation Electronic Attack Unit (NGEAU) Non-Recurring Engineering (NRE) efforts as the program moves into the production phase.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
Continue developmental testing and integration of Growler Block II (GB2) Phase 1 in both laboratory and flight environments. Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) units commence deliveries to squadrons ahead of modification of aircraft and fielding. Continue GB2 Phase 2 EMD phase activities to include integration and developmental testing of the Beowulf iLEF, MFA, and a Sensor Control Unit (SCU) in preparation for GB2 Phase 2 OTRR.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 108.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 170.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 126.0 |
This activity is 96% of project 3063's FY2027 request and 96% of PE 0604269N'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.
4 activities in project 3063
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 program-element page.