What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project EY9 of PE 0604759A. 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.
Testing of Block I instrumentation radars, continued development and acceptance testing of the Block II Long Range Instrumentation Radar prototype and allows for continued development of Block III prototype radars.
Increase in FY27 to continue development of the Block II LRR prototype and engineering, manufacturing, and development of Block III prototypes.
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.
FY26 funds in the amount of $48.003 Million provides funding for acceptance testing and development of Block I Medium and Long Range Instrumentation Radars and continues development of the Block II LRR prototype. Additionally, funding allows for Block III development, risk reduction demonstration, and begins engineering, manufacturing, and development of Block III prototypes.
FY25 in the amount of $38.475M provides funding for acceptance testing of Block I Medium and Long Range Instrumentation Radars and continues development of the Block II LRR prototype, and development and demonstration of Block III prototypes.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 37.1 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 48.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 48.9 |
This activity is 100% of project EY9's FY2027 request and 46% of PE 0604759A'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 EY9
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.