What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 3469 of PE 0604757N. 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.
- Continue preliminary prototype builds and accept delivery to prove out and validate critical performance capability, system architecture functionality, and supportability requirements. - Continue testing to collect evidence for verification of SOEA requirements. - Continue platform integration studies. - Continue support of modularity specifications development. - Commence monitoring training curriculum development. - Continue Model & Simulation (M&S) to support further testing. - Coordinate Softkill Coordination System (SKCS) integration. - Commence support and monitoring of software and hardware fixes/upgrades. - Commence Land-Based Performance Testing & Environmental Testing to prove out integrated system capabilities and verify integrated system performance in a representative operational environment. - Conduct Phase 2 Rapid Fielding Designation Review.
The increase in FY27 aligns with the initiation of Phase 2 Rapid Fielding, conduct of land-based performance and environmental testing, and support/monitoring of software/hardware upgrades based on testing results.
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.
- Complete preliminary prototype builds and accept delivery to prove out and validate critical performance capability, system architecture functionality, and supportability requirements. - Continue testing to collect evidence for verification of SOEA requirements. - Conduct initial Operational Demonstration Assessment (ODA) - Continue platform integration studies. - Continue support of modularity specifications development. - Commence Model & Simulation (M&S) to support further testing. - Coordinate Softkill Coordination System (SKCS) integration. - Commence preparation for Phase 2 Rapid Fielding Designation Review
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 | 6.6 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 13.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 28.3 |
This activity is 44% of project 3469's FY2027 request and 14% of PE 0604757N'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 3469
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.