R-2A Activity · President's Budget PB2027

Tactical Data Links and Gateways (TDL&G) Integration

Activity a3·Project 655050 — TDL System Integration·PE 0604281F·U.S. Air Force
FY2027 Request
$22.2M
▼ 22% vs FY2026
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This activity requests $22.2M in FY2027, 20% of project 655050, down 22% on FY2026. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2026–FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

FY2027 Request
$22.2M
▼ 22% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$28.5M
▲ 9.5% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$26.0M
Prior year
Planned work

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.

FY2027 planned work

- Will continue to manage the development, certification, training and logistics plans for individual TDL implementations to Joint/ allied standards. - Will continue to provide the necessary engineering, technical, and administrative support required to add and/or update Air Force platform and system information exchange requirements. - Will continue to ensure compatibility and interoperability of TDLs by funding required Air Force/joint MIL-STD compliance and interoperability tests. - Will continue ensure compatibility and interoperability of TDLs by developing TDL messaging capability to address new or updated operational requirements

FY2026 to FY2027 change

Decrease from FY 2026 to FY 2027 due to realignment for higher operational priorities.

Before the request year

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.

FY2026 plans — current year

- Continue to manage the development, certification, training and logistics plans for individual TDL implementations to Joint/ allied standards. - Continue to provide the necessary engineering, technical, and administrative support required to add and/or update Air Force platform and system information exchange requirements. - Continue to ensure compatibility and interoperability of TDLs by funding required Air Force/joint MIL-STD compliance and interoperability tests. - Continue ensure compatibility and interoperability of TDLs by developing TDL messaging capability to address new or updated operational requirements

Money

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.

25026.0FY25ACTUAL28.5FY26ENACTED22.2FY27REQUEST
Actual Enacted Request
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual26.0
FY2026Enacted28.5
FY2027Request22.2

This activity is 20% of project 655050's FY2027 request and 20% 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.

Where this sits

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.

MBeam$50.8M NEWCommon Tactical Edge Network (CTEN)$24.2M ▼ 42%
Tactical Data Links and Gateways (TDL&G) Integration — this activity$22.2M ▼ 22%
Link 22$7.7M NEW
Second Generation Anti-Jam Tactical UHF Radio for NATO (SATURN)$5.2M ▼ 15%
Source
FY2027 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification · Exhibit R-2A · PE 0604281F, project 655050 (President's Budget PB2027). Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, never on an activity.
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