What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 2232 of PE 0604512N. 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 the developmental enhancements to resolve known and emerging capability shortfalls within the major categories of ALRE to include: VLA, Information Systems, Launcher, Recovery, and ADMACS. Continue development of Gold Disk circuit card test routine software. Continue Visual Landing Aids (VLA) Long Range Line of Sight (LRLS) redesign efforts and conduct LRLS Critical Design Review (CDR) and begin LRLS Prototype Production. Incorporate Fresnel Lens Optical Landing System (IFLOLS) automation software development and testing. To continue software capability drop development efforts for Marine Aviation Data Management System (MADMS).
Decrease in FY27 due to current MADMS program plan associated with planned software capability drop development.
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 the developmental enhancements to resolve known and emerging capability shortfalls within the major categories of ALRE to include: VLA, Information Systems, Launcher, Recovery, and ADMACS. Continue development of Gold Disk circuit card test routine software. Incorporate development efforts for Marine Aviation Data Management System (MADMS) to provide software update drops for new increments of capability to address fleet feedback and cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Conduct MADMS Integration Readiness Review (IRR) and Test Readiness Review (TRR). Continue Visual Landing Aids (VLA) Long Range Line of Sight (LRLS) redesign efforts and conduct LRLS Preliminary Design Review (PDR).
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 | 0.4 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 16.1 |
| FY2027 | Request | 12.6 |
This activity is 41% of project 2232's FY2027 request and 41% of PE 0604512N'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 2232
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.