What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 2465 of PE 0604567N. 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.
LHA (R): Continue development of the MCS LBTE Continue LHA class obsolescence research and system engineering Continue LFT&E efforts Continue Lead Ship OT Campaign (Air Warfare Ship Self Defense) T&E events Continue Planning for Tiltrotor and Rotary Wing Dynamic Interface Testing (DIT) Complete Dynamic Interface-Virtual Environment (DIVE) Modeling and Simulation Continue RM&A analyses Continue development of the VAR Continue OT&E preparation for Operational Assessment Continue Cyber Security DT&E efforts Complete research and systems engineering for replacing FAS equipment
FY 2026 to FY 2027 decrease of $8.179M reflects 1) the re-phasing of testing requirements, 2) Completion of Hybrid Open Transceiver New Advanced Integrated Line-of-Sight Equipment (HOT nAILES), 3) FAS and DIVE efforts progressing towards conclusion and final implementation.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
LHA (R): Initiate development of the Machinery Control System (MCS) Land Based Test Facility (LBTE) Continue LHA class obsolescence research and system engineering Continue Live Fire Test and Evaluation (LFT&E) efforts Continue resolution of Operational Assessment findings related to Ultra High Frequency (UHF) and High Frequency (HF) Radio National Security Agency (NSA) encryption compliance Continue Lead Ship Operational Testing (OT) Campaign (Air Warfare Ship Self Defense) Test and Evaluation (T&E) events Continue Dynamic Interface-Virtual Environment (DIVE) Modeling and Simulation Continue Reliability, Maintainability, and Availability (RM&A) analyses Continue development of the Vulnerability Assessment Report (VAR) Continue Operational Test and Evaluation (OT&E) preparation for Operational Assessment Continue Cyber Security Developmental Test and Evaluation (DT&E efforts) Continue research and systems engineering for replacing Fuel at Sea (FAS) equipment
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 11.5 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 27.6 |
| FY2027 | Request | 19.4 |
This activity is 100% of project 2465's FY2027 request and 100% of PE 0604567N'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 2465
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.