What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project DK8 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 will support system demonstration and integration with down selected Mobile Tactical Cannon (MTC), verify performance of propelling charge and ignition systems, and evaluate integration with handling and stowage systems.
FY 2027 funding increases due to additional testing of propulsion and primer systems as well as significant platform integration work
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.
In FY 2026, funding will support the engineering design process including demonstration and testing of propelling charge and ignition systems for propulsion evaluation at the the system-level, in conjunction with the howitzer, cannon, projectile, and fuze programs. The propulsion evaluation will focus on system-level attributes including cannon life, propelling charge performance, system-level handling and rates-of-fire, and overall propulsion suitability and survivability.
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) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | Enacted | 11.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 23.9 |
This activity is 100% of project DK8's FY2027 request and 19% 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 DK8
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.