What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 0556 of PE 0604270N. 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.
FY 2027 efforts include continued developments efforts such as Built-In-Test (BIT) capability, new capability improvement areas, systems engineering, software and aircraft integration related activities to ensure seamless transition of capability into host aircraft and begin testing of various components for additional capabilities. Development and testing of upgraded components of AN/ALQ-99 to address specific threats, such as the Modernized Universal Exciter Upgrade (M-UEU), to provide additional capability. Additional efforts include the development, integration and test of software builds, and potential related prototyping activities related to current TJS such as but not limited to AN/ALQ-99 TJS, AN/ALQ-249 Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band (NGJ-MB) and future Low Band (LB) frequency jamming systems to provide continually improved capabilities.
Funding decreases from FY 2026 to FY 2027 in alignment with RDTE,N rebalancing priorities.
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.
FY 2026 efforts include development of new capability improvement areas, systems engineering, software and aircraft integration related activities to ensure seamless transition of capability into host aircraft and begin testing of various components for additional capabilities. Additional efforts include the development, integration and test of software builds, and potential related prototyping activities related to current TJS such as but not limited to AN/ALQ-99 TJS, AN/ALQ-249 Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band (NGJ-MB) and future Low Band (LB) frequency jamming systems to provide continually improved capabilities.
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 | 14.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 13.2 |
This activity is 32% of project 0556's FY2027 request and 7.8% of PE 0604270N'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.
3 activities in project 0556
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.