What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 212 of PE 0604539D8Z. 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.
Spending will focus on prioritized operational needs—particularly through the development, modernization, and scaled production of enhanced, extended-range UxS capabilities. Investments will also expand the production of proven short- and medium- range UxS capabilities and strengthen the US drone industrial base by engaging capable vendors and driving deliberate growth for continual capability refinement. Spending will be leveraged to signal industry performance expectations and scalable production demands, facilitating large-scale acquisition of the most performant UxS platforms for INDOPACOM, stimulating industry participation, and posturing for continued scaled and accelerated execution and refinement in future fiscal years.
The increase in FY 2027 is due to the establishment of the DAWG (in the discretionary budget) in support of autonomous systems procurement, domestic production capacity, and advanced capabilities.
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) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2027 | Request | 1,000.0 |
This activity is 100% of project 212's FY2027 request and 100% of PE 0604539D8Z'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 212
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.