What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 652286 of PE 0604735F. 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.
Funding continues support of the P6 Initial Operating Capability (IOC). By FY2028, there will be continued aircraft integration development on F-15/F-16 P6 requirements at Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR). Funding furthers development of Open-Air Battlespace Shaping (OABS) simulation integration, to include an internal mount solution through Federal Laboratories (FedLAB). All updates will be integrated into the TCTS II/P6CTS software baseline managed by the Navy (PMA-205).
FY2027 $3.7M decrease due to support for other Air Force higher priorities.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
Continued funding of Non-Recurring Engineering (NRE) to complete F-15/F-16 and range integration at Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR) in support of P6 Initial Operating Capability (IOC) and continued development of Air Battlespace Shaping (OABS). FY26 deliverables include the F-15 Affinity Profile Image and ACE software application ECP package for inclusion in the TCTS II/P6CTS software baseline. The program anticipates IOC at NTTR by FY2028.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 18.5 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 15.2 |
| FY2027 | Request | 11.5 |
This activity is 8.6% of project 652286's FY2027 request and 8.6% of PE 0604735F'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.
4 activities in project 652286
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 program-element page.