What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project EZ8 of PE 0604622A. 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.
FY 2027 Base Plan provides funding to award remaining Phase 3 contract milestones completing the prototype effort in support of First Unit Issued (FUI). Activities funded include Developmental Testing of M-Code hardware and software, technical support, transportation and reversion of test assets, and program support.
Decrease in FY 2027 due to completion of MTA-RP and development effort.
FY2025–FY2026: what came before
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.
FY 2026 Base Plan funds Phase 3 vendor award - Build Prototypes for First Unit Issued (FUI). Activities funded include acquisition and integration of M-Code hardware and software, technical support, operational testing and evaluation, cyber security tests and scans, and program support.
FY 2025 funds the completion of Phase 1 - Competitive Demonstration and Evaluation of up to three vendor solutions, awards 2 selected vendors Phase 2 - Vendor Prototype Build, and organizations to test/evaluate and provide support during the developmental test & evaluation. Activities funded include program management, technical design reviews, test, cyber, prototypes, contractor support and spares to support test, and Government support to vendors using government-provided software.
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 | 29.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 30.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 13.5 |
This activity is 61% of project EZ8's FY2027 request and 31% of PE 0604622A'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 EZ8
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.