What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project BQ6 of PE 0604710A. 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.
SBMC development includes improved system form factor and performance, and continued extensibility enhancements with SQD-A refinements. SBMC and SQD-A test and evaluation planned to assess and validate performance.
FY 2027 funding increase due to increase SBMC and SQD-A test and evaluation planned to assess and validate performance.
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.
Test and evaluation of SBMC planned improvements supports improved system form factor and performance, and continued extensibility enhancements with situational awareness architecture refinements.
Continue test and evaluation of SBMC Surrogate, formerly known as IVAS 1.2, through Continuous Operational Learning and Test (COLT). Supports software development, implementation, and reliability. Develops and Validates the SBMC Architecture through software extensibility and mission thread/application development. Continues SBMC development focusing on improving form factor through modularity and updating software for improved command and control through Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled data fusion and real-time situational awareness.
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 | 76.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 308.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 338.0 |
This activity is 100% of project BQ6's FY2027 request and 81% of PE 0604710A'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 BQ6
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.