What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 3186 of PE 0604522N. 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 to provide system engineering and Software (SW) support for combat system integration efforts, including defect correction during Initial Operational Test and Evaluation (IOT&E) and preparation for OT events for Integrated Air and Missile Defense Key Performance Parameter (IAMD KPP) - Continue to support execution and data analysis of Developmental Testing / Operational Testing (DT/OT) events - Continue to support Operational Test and Evaluation (T&E) Objective Quality Evidence (OQE) collection, analysis, and documentation - Conduct SPY-6 software engineering and develop Sea Based Terminal Increment III capability integration in SPY-6(V)1/4.
Increase is due to integration with AEGIS Baseline 10, testing at Advanced Radar Development Evaluation Laboratory (ARDEL), and Virtual Test Environment (VTE) integration
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 to provide system engineering and Software (SW) support for combat system integration efforts, including defect correction during Initial Operational Test and Evaluation (IOT&E) and preparation for OT events for Integrated Air and Missile Defense Key Performance Parameter (IAMD KPP) - Support execution and data analysis of Developmental Testing / Operational Testing (DT/OT) events - Support Operational Test and Evaluation (T&E) Objective Quality Evidence (OQE) collection, analysis, and documentation
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 | 18.9 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 14.6 |
| FY2027 | Request | 19.2 |
This activity is 20% of project 3186's FY2027 request and 20% of PE 0604522N'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.
7 activities in project 3186
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.