What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 655050 of PE 0604281F. 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.
-Will continue to execute software releases, integration, and demonstrations. -Will continue to engineer the capability to provide data routing critical to the operation of PG/C3HST and the associated Phalanx Watch network support function. -Will continue to upgrade software as the ability to scale CTEN and integrate increased ground nodes and weapons platforms will continue as PG expands.
Decrease from FY 2026 to FY 2027 due to realignment for higher operational 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.
-Continue to develop and demonstrate the CTEN Minimum Viable Capability Release (MVCR). -The first operational release of CTEN is scheduled for early 2026 followed by another release later in 2026. Both will be integrated on Phalanx Nomad hardware baseline with final delivery of full Phalanx Griffon (PG)-system to F15 SPO in calendar year 2026. This includes software Model Based System Engineering artifacts -Complete systems architecting and continue to support advanced non-proprietary antenna apertures necessary to mature the Enterprise Approach to the Joint Aerial Network. -Complete systems architecture with associated CTEN reference architecture Model Based System Engineering artifacts. -Develop software sustainment plan and contract award.
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 | 44.5 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 41.8 |
| FY2027 | Request | 24.2 |
This activity is 22% of project 655050's FY2027 request and 22% of PE 0604281F'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.
5 activities in project 655050
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.