What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 656507 of PE 0604288F. 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.
- Continue executing Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) design activities to include system engineering, trade studies, system/subsystem engineering analysis, preliminary design and critical design for the aircraft, mission system, training systems, and supporting systems - Continue Mission System EMD development, modernization, and delivery of required Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications (NC3), Command, Control, and Communications (C3), Cryptographic, Open Architecture / Open Mission Systems (OA/OMS), software, workstations, mission system infrastructure, and other mission system capabilities to ensure systems are sustainable and available to integrate into the EMD design and overall SAOC Weapon System - Continue executing EMD design activities to include system engineering and system/subsystem design reviews, manufacturing readiness and quality assurance as part of the Preliminary Design Review Process. - Continue to refine and implement the infrastructure, tools, and training necessary for the SAOC Integrated Digital Environment and program execution, enabling the SAOC Program Office to continue to execute and support the development and lifecycle sustainment of the SAOC Weapon System - Continue T&E execution activities including manning, procurement of test equipment, training, and facility modifications; continue early functional testing at the component and Line Replaceable Unit (LRU) levels; continue development of the T&E SIL - Continue executing Air Vehicle EMD design activities to include systems engineering, trade studies, system/subsystem engineering analysis, risk reduction, prototyping, integration, survivability mandates, test readiness, preliminary design, and initial critical design for the aircraft. Continue to execute Commercial Derivative Aircraft (CDA) Pre Ops Support activities to ensure green aircraft availability to support continued EMD characterization, modification, test, certification, and delivery objectives - Continue executing Training System EMD design activities to include training system development, training curriculum development, system/subsystem training analysis, preliminary design and initial critical design of the SAOC training system for operations and maintenance. Continue coordination activities with appropriate stakeholders to support SAOC fielding and bed-down requirements. Continue coordination activities with appropriate stakeholders to support the design of SAOC facilities at the main operating base (MOB) - Continue Product Support Business Case Analysis (PS-BCA) to support Product Support strategies to achieve SAOC capabilities and affordability - Continue follow on Supply Chain Risk Management Analysis and Illumination
Funding increased due to the expansion of system engineering and design activities, ramp-up of Test and Evaluation (T&E) preparation activities including manning, procurement of test equipment, training, and facility modifications
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 executing Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) design activities to include system engineering, trade studies, system/subsystem engineering analysis and preliminary design for the aircraft, mission system, training systems, and supporting systems - Continue supporting development, modernization, and delivery of required Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications (NC3), Command, Control, and Communications (C3), Cryptographic, OA/OMS, and other mission system capabilities to ensure systems are sustainable and available to integrate into the EMD design and overall SAOC Weapon System (to include FAB-T CPT) - Continue to refine and implement the infrastructure, tools, and training necessary for the SAOC Integrated Digital Environment and program execution, enabling the SAOC Program Office to continue to execute and support the development and lifecycle sustainment of the SAOC Weapon System - Continue Test and Evaluation (T&E) execution planning and preparation activities including manning, procurement of test equipment, training, and facility modifications; continue early functional testing at the component and Line Replaceable Unit (LRU) levels; continue development of the T&E System Integration Laboratory (SIL) - Reach and maintain program office manning required to support the SAOC system development - Continue coordination activities with appropriate stakeholders to ensure that SAOC requirements are properly accounted for, and integrated, within facilities currently under development - Continue Product Support Business Case Analysis (PS-BCA) to support Product Support strategies to achieve SAOC capabilities and affordability - Continue follow on Supply Chain Risk Management Analysis and Illumination
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 | 1,801.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 2,218.9 |
This activity is 100% of project 656507's FY2027 request and 100% of PE 0604288F'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 656507
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.