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 develop capability to share tactical information, fuse sensor information, cooperate with other network assets, and otherwise provide enterprise data link capabilities to support current and future warfighter needs in evolving threat landscapes -Will develop MBeam waveform and specifications -Will implement MBeam waveform specification -Will conduct interoperability virtual testing -Will conduct interoperability flight testing -Will develop NSA-certified cryptographic units (CUs) for waveform cryptographic equipment applications (CEAs) for US government enterprise use -Will conduct flight testing of integrated cryptographic subsystem In Budget Year FY 2027, Project MBeam, whose Program Element (PE) resides at a higher classification level, will be transferred to PE 0604281F, Tactical Data Networks Enterprise, as Project MBeam, in order to facilitate management of development, testing, and integration with other tactical data networks at the enterprise level.
Increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 due to the effort being transferred from another program element. In Budget Year FY 2027, Project MBeam, whose Program Element (PE) resides at a higher classification level, will be transferred to PE 0604281F, Tactical Data Networks Enterprise, as Project MBeam, in order to facilitate management of development, testing, and integration with other tactical data networks at the enterprise level. Details such as PE Number and Name executing Project MBeam during the Current Year remain at a higher classification level and may be provided upon request.
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.
This program is executing in another program element during the current year and is transitioning into this program element (0604281F) during the budget year. MBeam currently resides in a higher classification level; details may be provided upon request. In Budget Year FY 2027, Project MBeam, whose Program Element (PE) resides at a higher classification level, will be transferred to PE 0604281F, Tactical Data Networks Enterprise, as Project MBeam, in order to facilitate management of development, testing, and integration with other tactical data networks at the enterprise level.
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 | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 50.8 |
This activity is 46% of project 655050's FY2027 request and 46% 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.