What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project FL4 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.
Conduct Complex Target Terminal Characterization (CTTC), complete Live Fire Test and Evaluation (LFT&E), achieve Full Material Release (FMR) milestone, initiate persistent design optimization, and develop prototypes for Limited Lethality Assessment. Initiate detailed design activities for a facility that enables prototyping of new concepts for the Persistent Design Optimization effort. Complete transition from Middle Tier of Acquisition (MTA) to Major Capability Acquisition (MCA).
Increase due to initiation of persistent design optimization and development of 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.
Initiate Full Materiel Release (FMR) preparation activities, initiate Live Fire Test and Evaluation (LFT&E), and conduct design optimization effort. Perform activities in preparation for transition from Middle Tier of Acquisition (MTA) to Major Capability Acquisition (MCA).
Perform Urgent Materiel Release (UMR) preparation activities and commence design optimization effort.
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 | 7.6 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 9.2 |
| FY2027 | Request | 12.1 |
This activity is 70% of project FL4's FY2027 request and 9.7% 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.
6 activities in project FL4
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.