R-2A Activity · President's Budget PB2027

OPEN AIR RANGE INVESTMENTS

FY2027 Request
$81.9M
▲ 158% vs FY2026
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This activity requests $81.9M in FY2027, 73% of project 2195, up 158% on FY2026. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2026–FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

FY2027 Request
$81.9M
▲ 158% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$31.7M
▼ 27% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$43.3M
Prior year
Planned work

What the FY2027 request buys

Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 2195 of PE 0604759N. 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.

FY2027 planned work

- Complete replacement of prime movers at NAWCWD. - Continue the minor upgrade and modernization of test capabilities at NAWCAD, NAWCWD and PMRF. - Continue upgrades to telemetry collection and processing capabilities at NAWCWD. - Continue upgrades to telemetry collection and processing capabilities at PMRF. - Continue modernization of five radar systems at NAWCWD. - Continue instrumentation radar replacement at NAWCAD. - Continue large telemetry antenna modernization at PMRF. - Continue networked based telemetry upgrade at NAWCAD. - Continue optical tracking mount replacement at PMRF. - Initiate modernization of fiber infrastructure at NAWCWD South Range. - Initiate network upgrade at NAWCWD Sea Range - Initiate telemetry recorder upgrade at NAWCWD. - Initiate optical tracking mount procurement at NAWCWD. - Initiate optical tracking mount procurement at NAWCAD. - Initiate network modernization at NAWCWD. - Initiate spectrum monitoring equipment purchase at NAWCAD. - Initiate Networked telemetry fielding at NAWCAD. - Initiate V/UHF radio purchase at NAWCWD. - Initiate traveling wave tube purchase for multiple radars at NAWCWD. - Initiate and complete communication radio replacement at NAWCAD.

FY2026 to FY2027 change

Funding increases from FY 2026 to FY 2027 due to the initiation of multiple projects.

Before the request year

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.

FY2026 plans — current year

- Complete upgrade of the R2508 microwave radar relay system at NAWCWD. - Complete the development and integration of Telemetry equipment on the Range Support Aircraft. - Complete communication system upgrade on Mobile At Sea Sensor at PMRF. - Complete imaging radar transmitter replacement at PMRF. - Complete network upgrade on Mobile At Sea Sensor at PMRF. - Complete upgrade of telemetry data routing at PMRF. - Complete replacement of UHF and VHF radios at NAWCWD. - Complete modernization of multi-target instrumentation radar at NAWCAD. - Complete replacement of low speed time space position trackers at NAWCWD. - Complete modernization of fiber infrastructure at NAWCWD. - Continue the minor upgrade and modernization of test capabilities at NAWCAD, NAWCWD and PMRF. - Continue upgrades to telemetry collection and processing capabilities at NAWCWD. - Continue upgrades to telemetry collection and processing capabilities at PMRF. - Continue modernization of five radar systems at NAWCWD. - Continue replacement of prime movers at NAWCWD. - Initiate imaging radar radome replacement at PMRF. - Initiate instrumentation radar replacement at NAWCAD. - Initiate large telemetry antenna modernization at PMRF. - Initiate networked based telemetry upgrade at NAWCAD. - Initiate optical tracking mount replacement at PMRF.

Money

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.

255075043.3FY25ACTUAL31.7FY26ENACTED81.9FY27REQUEST
Actual Enacted Request
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual43.3
FY2026Enacted31.7
FY2027Request81.9

This activity is 73% of project 2195's FY2027 request and 73% of PE 0604759N'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.

Where this sits

3 activities in project 2195

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.

OPEN AIR RANGE INVESTMENTS — this activity$81.9M ▲ 158%
UNDERSEA RANGE INVESTMENTS$21.4M ▼ 20%
TEST FACILITIES INVESTMENTS$9.1M ▲ 161%
Source
FY2027 Department of the Navy RDT&E Budget Justification · Exhibit R-2A · PE 0604759N, project 2195 (President's Budget PB2027). Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, never on an activity.
Machine access
Markdown twin /programs/0604759N/2195/a1.md · MCP mcp.hitchintel.combudget_get_activity