What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 3308 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.
Continued EW product development and initiation of tests in support of the ALQ-214 system on the F/A-18 E/F for Navy aircraft. Develop, model and test advanced electronic countermeasure algorithms for Navy aircraft to defend against modern threats both inside and outside the currently protected RF spectrum. Provide investments for the continuation and development of emerging RF Threat, ECM and T&E Capability Enhancements, addresses current and future threats on the roadmap that are not in the threat library (new threats not yet in MDFs). Develops advanced HW-in-the-loop Modeling and Simulation flight test surrogates to keep pace with modern advanced threats in support of currently fielded systems.
Decrease ($1.586M) from FY2026 to FY2027 due to due to a lower rate of development activity at NSMA.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
Continued EW product development and initiation of tests in support of the ALQ-214 system on the F/A-18 E/F for Navy aircraft. Develop, model and test advanced electronic countermeasure algorithms for Navy aircraft to defend against modern threats both inside and outside the currently protected RF spectrum. Provide investments for the continuation and development of emerging RF Threat, ECM and T&E Capability Enhancements, addresses current and future threats on the roadmap that are not in the threat library (new threats not in MDFs). Develops advanced HW-in-the-loop Modeling and Simulation flight test surrogates to keep pace with modern advanced threats in support of currently fielded systems.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 22.9 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 12.4 |
| FY2027 | Request | 10.8 |
This activity is 100% of project 3308's FY2027 request and 6.4% 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.
1 activity in project 3308
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.