What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project UN5 of PE 0604384BP. 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.
Complete all developmental test and operational test (DT/OT) efforts, operational assessment, and Milestone C (MS C) Army Test and Evaluation Center evaluation report. Prepare documentation for phase four Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) and MSC in 4Q FY 2027 with a LRIP contract award in 1Q FY 2028. Continue Program management and administration processes to include but not limited to program oversight, logistics products, resource justification, budgeting and programming, milestone and schedule tracking.
FY 2027 decreased funding aligns to scope required to complete developmental and operational test (DT/OT) efforts, and operational assessment in FY 2027. 190 Prototypes purchased in FY 2026 and will be utilized for the completion of DT/OT in FY 2027.
FY2025–FY2026: what came before
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 Engineering and Development tasks aligned to Development testing/ Operational testing (DT/OT) activities and plan for an operational assessment to measure system performance and assess risk against military concepts of operation in FY 2027. Continue Program management and administration processes to include but not limited to program oversight, resource justification, budgeting and programming, milestone and schedule tracking.
Continued Engineering and Development tasks and procured beta prototypes to support military standard, conducted critical design reviews, environmental and false alarm testing, as well as assessed and measured system performance and assessed risk. Initiated documentation and staffing to support developmental and operational testing in FY 2026. Prepared all necessary test infrastructure for required test events. Continued Program management and administration processes to include but not limited to program oversight, resource justification, budgeting and programming, milestone and schedule tracking.
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 | 8.1 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 16.2 |
| FY2027 | Request | 13.3 |
This activity is 7.1% of project UN5's FY2027 request and 5.1% of PE 0604384BP'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.
25 activities in project UN5
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.