What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 0728 of PE 0604280N. 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.
Complete maturation of the design and proceed to a Critical Design Review (CDR). As a result of the CDR, the vendor will deliver an Engineering Development Model (EDM) which will support testing to show performance and finalize production details. Test Readiness Review (TRR) is planned 30 days after delivery of an EDM to begin the design testing phase which will end with delivery of a fully tested Production Representative Asset (PRA) in FY 2028.
FY 2026 to FY 2027 increase of $4.195M supports the SATCOM NGSO Technology Insertion Critical Design Review (CDR), Test Readiness Review (TRR), and Engineering Development Model (EDM) vendor design testing, preparing for Production Representative Asset (PRA) delivery in FY 2028.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
Continue to maintain alignment with the Navy's RC3 strategy and approach, Satellite Communications (SATCOM) programs transitioned from exercising an initial RC3 modem capability to utilizing the Wideband Anti-Jam Modem System (WAMS), which provides protected wideband SATCOM capability to the Fleet. Funds required to perform studies on how to integrate WAMS into the Satellite Communication (SATCOM) architecture. Develop and test below decks Non-Geostationary Orbit (NGSO) SATCOM chassis and equipment compatible with an NGSO submarine mast antenna system. Perform testing and integration of the modem and processing equipment enabling an NGSO system to operate on Navy submarines. Conduct a competitive prototyping process to evaluate and down select prototypes from multiple vendors.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.2 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 13.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 17.2 |
This activity is 18% of project 0728's FY2027 request and 4.2% of PE 0604280N'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.
2 activities in project 0728
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.