What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 1111 of PE 0604307N. 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.
ICS SOFTWARE RELEASE Q4/FY27 PROGRAM INCREMENT DEMO Q4/FY26 SW Factory to rearchitect and factor AEGIS and Ship Self Defense System (SSDS) legacy computer programs existing capabilities into a single code base fielded as part of the Integrated Combat System (ICS) configuration. Refactor heritage code base into containerized microservices so that warfighting capability can be inserted, tested, and delivered to the Fleet at the speed of relevance. FY27 rearchitecting and refactoring includes mini-service containerization across AEGIS and SSDS elements, improving system resiliency and integrating ICS foundational services and APIs for easy integration of new sensors and weapons. The SW factory will be continuing feature updates to Readiness (ORTS replacement), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Data Adaptation between legacy and new code bases, Display improvements, Onboard training, and re-architecture to support long range fires and terminal defense. The SW factory will continue to maintain a DevSecOps infrastructure and ecosystem (to include embedded M&S and test capabilities) to necessary to develop and deliver code at a faster pace than currently feasible. Test architected software on MK 6 Mod X hardware and deliver to test sites.
FY 2026 to FY 2027 Increase/Decrease Statement Decrease of $61.274M due to a planned ramp down of software development teams (X teams required in FY26; X teams required in FY27) following the completion of major phases in the re-architecture effort. This funding is essential to the development and proliferation of ICS to the fleet.
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.
ICS SOFTWARE RELEASE Q4/FY26 PROGRAM INCREMENT DEMO Q4/FY26 SW Factory to rearchitect and factor AEGIS and Ship Self Defense System (SSDS) legacy computer programs existing capabilities into a single code base fielded as part of the Integrated Combat System (ICS) configuration. Refactor heritage code base into containerized microservices so that warfighting capability can be inserted, tested, and delivered to the Fleet at the speed of relevance. FY26 rearchitecting and refactoring includes macro-service containerization across AEGIS and SSDS elements, eliminating dependencies with runtime licenses, and utilizing Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) orchestration. The SW factory will be continuing feature updates to Readiness (ORTS replacement), Data Adaptation between legacy and new code bases, Display improvements, Onboard training, and re-architecture to support long range fires and terminal defense. The SW factory will continue to maintain a DevSecOps infrastructure and ecosystem (to include embedded M&S and test capabilities) to necessary to develop and deliver code at a faster pace than currently feasible. Test architected software on MK 6 Mod X hardware and deliver to test sites.
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 | 57.9 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 78.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 16.7 |
This activity is 40% of project 1111's FY2027 request and 3.9% of PE 0604307N'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 1111
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.