What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 2178 of PE 0604755N. 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.
For Build 12+ - Continue efforts for systems engineering, design, and qualification of common computing infrastructure components/designs supporting SSDS platforms. - Continue efforts for systems engineering capability insertions, to include requirements development/updates, use cases, trade studies and conduct Systems Engineering Technical Review (SETR) events as required: - Continue Integration of applicable common software including Battle Decision Aids - Adaptable Deck Launch (ESSM Block 2 Phase 2 (Optimized)) - Continue AN/SLQ-32(V)7 (Electronic Warfare Improvement) - Continue CEC Increment 2 (CG4/5) - Continue integration/lifecycle engineering efforts for Combat System Build 12 I in support of the following capability insertions: - AN/SPY-6(V) integration - AN/SLQ-32(V)6 (Electronic Warfare Improvement) - GPNTS/GEDMS - SSDS virtualization (previously containerization) - CEC Increment 2 (CG2/3) - Complete CAC2S Afloat mission capability design, development, test, and certification of the Coalition/NATO Link 22 interface, the TTNT interface, the UxV interfaces to process both Full Motion Video (FMV) and Still Imagery Products (SIP), and the web-based CEC product for non-CEC ship classes to provide real-time netted-sensor tracks/targets. - Continue efforts on Software Support Activities (SSA) to include cybersecurity updates, CANES certifications, and support for four (4) software update builds released per year. - Initiate SPY-6 EPIC 3 Improved Air Surveillance Tracking and Electronic Protection [EASR Epic 3] Optimized air warfare performance for improved self-defense, Advanced Electronic Protection
The FY 2026 to FY2027 adjustments include an increase to support integration of SPY-6 EPIC 3 in SSDS but is offset by reductions resulting in a net decrease of $11.287. This decrease impacts CAC2S Afloat by $3.2M resulting in a delay in delivery of the Distributed Common Ground System - Navy (DCGS-N) interface, Coalition/NATO Link 22 interface, and the Tactical Targeting Network Technology (TTNT) implementation. We are extending the development timeline for these interfaces to multi-year efforts to fit within the existing budget. The remaining $7.787M reduction freezes SSDS cyber capability development except for testing and minimum limited high priority software corrections.
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.
For Build 12+ - Continue efforts for systems engineering, design, and qualification of common computing infrastructure components/designs supporting SSDS platforms. - Continue efforts for systems engineering capability insertions, to include requirements development/updates, use cases, trade studies and conduct Systems Engineering Technical Review (SETR) events as required: - Integration of applicable common software including Battle Decision Aids - Adaptable Deck Launch (ESSM Block 2 Phase 2 (Optimized)) - Initiate AN/SLQ-32(V)7 (Electronic Warfare Improvement) - Initiate CEC Increment 2 (CG4/5) - Continue integration/lifecycle engineering efforts for Combat System Build 12 I in support of the following capability insertions: - AN/SPY-6(V) integration - AN/SLQ-32(V)6 (Electronic Warfare Improvement) - GPNTS/GEDMS - SSDS virtualization (previously containerization) - CEC Increment 2 (CG2/3) - Complete the CAC2S Afloat development, integration, test, and certification efforts for the Shipboard ISR-T interfaces to include Minotaur/MTC-A and DCGS-N which will be released to the Fleet. - Initiate the new mission capability design, development, test, and certification of the Coalition/NATO Link 22 interface, the TTNT interface, the UxV interfaces to process both Full Motion Video (FMV) and Still Imagery Products (SIP), and the web-based CEC product for non-CEC ship classes to provide real-time netted-sensor tracks/targets. - Continue efforts on Software Support Activities (SSA) to include cybersecurity updates, consolidated Afloat Network Enterprise Services (CANES) certifications, and support for four (4) software update builds released per year.
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 | 107.7 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 126.1 |
| FY2027 | Request | 114.8 |
This activity is 79% of project 2178's FY2027 request and 74% of PE 0604755N'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 2178
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.