What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project BY1 of PE 0604802A. 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.
Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 funding supports Developmental Test and Evaluation (DT&E), Milestone C documentation, design optimization, and preparation activities for prototype fielding.
Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 funding increase is due to additional testing, prototyping and engineering development activities to accommodate accelerated XM30 Combat Vehicle fielding schedule.
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.
Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 funding supports Developmental Test and Evaluation (DT&E) and Milestone C documentation.
FY 2025 funds support conducting the Developmental Test & Evaluation (DT&E) Build.
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 | 6.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 3.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 15.2 |
This activity is 100% of project BY1's FY2027 request and 12% of PE 0604802A'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 BY1
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.