What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 3242 of PE 0604378N. 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.
Reviewing Naval Aviation Enterprise (NAE) Integrated Capability Framework with Airwing of the Future 2027 to actuals. Decomposing SoS requirements into Model Based Systems Engineering products and NIFC Measures of Effectiveness and Measure of Performance to pillar programs. NIFC FTA SoS verification and validation testing of F/A-18 CIDD, F-35 integration, and E-2D DSSC upgrade with increased capabilities of USN air launched Air-to-Air and Air-to-Surface weapons, integration of tactical data link enhancements and Long Range Fires. Evaluate and assess Naval Integrated Fire Control Next (NIFCA-Next) interoperability and performance across air platforms and weapons by the utilization of federated labs; Live Virtual Construction (LVC). These labs will utilize a combination of LVC capabilities to identify issues and provide recommendations for corrections. Development of Mission Assessment Report (MAR) and RTVMs to provide definition to Developmental Test and Operational Test within the individual platforms. Continued alignment of digital thread of architectures, and Design Reference Missions (DRMs) to inform architecture development and system definition of the primary Carrier Air Wing effects chains for priority missions including Long Range Fires and capabilities enabling Long Range Fires. Execute performance assessments, interoperability risk reduction for advanced Integrated Fire Control (IFC), and employment recommendations across the NIFC pillar programs to maximize effectiveness when introduced to the Fleet. Continue to work with CNAF on developing the classified Master Aviation Plan.
$1.008M increase in FY27 will result in additional capability to the digital thread architectures for the Integrated Warfighter Capability Framework and increase in the number of updates to the System of System models.
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 NIFC FTA System of Systems (SoS) verification and validation testing of F/A-18 CIDD, F-35 integration, and E-2D DSSC 5 with increased capabilities of USN air launched Air-to-Air and Air-to-Surface weapons, integration of tactical data link enhancements and Long Range Fires. Evaluate and assess Advance Integrated Fire Control (AIFC) interoperability and performance across air platforms and weapons by the utilization of federated labs; Live Virtual Construction (LVC). These labs will utilize a combination of LVC capabilities to identify issues and provide recommendations for corrections. Development of Mission Assessment Report (MAR) and RTVMs to provide definition to Developmental Test and Operational Test within the individual platforms. Development of digital thread of architectures, Integrated Technical Capability Baselines (ICTBs), and Design Reference Missions (DRMs) to inform architecture development and system definition of the primary Carrier Air Wing effects chains for priority missions including Long Range Fires and capabilities enabling Long Range Fires. Execute performance assessments, interoperability risk reduction for advanced Integrated Fire Control (IFC), and employment recommendations across the NIFC pillar programs to maximize effectiveness when introduced to the Fleet. Continue to work with CNAF on developing the classified Master Aviation Plan.
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 | 12.2 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 11.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 12.0 |
This activity is 100% of project 3242's FY2027 request and 29% of PE 0604378N'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 3242
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.