What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 1947 of PE 0604558N. 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 work associated with previous test events (IOT&E, Arctic, Dry-Deck Shelter, Block III FOT&E). This consists of documenting and testing fixes to deficiencies identified during previously completed Developmental and Operational Testing as well as addressing recommendations noted by the Oversight Community from OSW. -Continue efforts to develop the FOT&E plan, to include the Cybersecurity test strategy and active target strength measurement, for Block V. The Cybersecurity test strategy will be planned and executed in coordination with the COLUMBIA Class IOT&E Cybersecurity test strategy. Plan to conduct active target strength measurement for Block V. -Continue development of the Block V Vulnerability Assessment Report to include all three aspects of Survivability: Susceptibility, Vulnerability, and Recoverability, as well as, the Block V Transient Shock Analysis Verification and Validation Report to meet the LFT&E legislation mandated in Title 10 USC 4172. -Provide updates to the VA Class Program Protection Plan (PPP) to account for changes to the Cybersecurity Testing Strategy and update to the Platform Level Criticality Analysis. -Support integration of the Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) Program into our Warfare Requirements and Test plans to meet Class Operational Capabilities.
FY 2026 to FY 2027 increase associated with efforts in support of active target strength validation and cybersecurity testing.
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 work associated with previous test events (IOT&E, Arctic, Dry-Deck Shelter, Block III FOT&E). This consists of documenting and testing fixes to deficiencies identified during previously completed Developmental and Operational Testing as well as addressing recommendations noted by the Oversight Community from OSW. -Continue efforts to develop the FOT&E plan, to include the Cybersecurity test strategy and active target strength measurement, for Block V. The Cybersecurity test strategy will be planned and executed in coordination with the COLUMBIA Class IOT&E Cybersecurity test strategy. Plan to conduct active target strength measurement for proof of concept and collect baseline data. Issue Block V TEMP for FOT&E, cybersecurity, and LFT&E. -Continue development of the Block V Vulnerability Assessment Report to include all three aspects of Survivability: Susceptibility, Vulnerability, and Recoverability, as well as, the Block V Transient Shock Analysis Verification and Validation Report to meet the LFT&E legislation mandated in Title 10 USC 4172. -Provide updates to the VA Class Program Protection Plan (PPP) to account for changes to the Cybersecurity Testing Strategy and update to the Platform Level Criticality Analysis. -Support integration of the Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) Program into our Warfare Requirements and Test plans to meet Class Operational 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) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 12.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 13.4 |
| FY2027 | Request | 22.5 |
This activity is 12% of project 1947's FY2027 request and 9.5% of PE 0604558N'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 1947
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.