What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project DI5 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.
Funds in FY 2027 will finalize system design and refine modeling based on the approved performance specification. Long lead time items for prototype development will be ordered.
FY 2027 funding increase to procure long lead time items for prototype development in FY 2028.
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.
Funds in FY 2026 will continue system design and initial modeling based on the final Government approved performance specification.
Awarded an OTA to three vendors for performance specification refinement, to conduct trade studies on available mature technology and TRL risk reduction efforts.
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 | 10.1 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 10.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 37.7 |
This activity is 100% of project DI5's FY2027 request and 9.0% 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 DI5
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.