What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project MS1 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.
FY 2027 funding in the amount of $26.121 million will continue to support activities to further design and develop a next generation 81mm mortar weapon, fire control system, and mobility kit that can be hosted on a tactical vehicle. Additionally, funding is required to support the next generation 120mm mortar weapon, fire control system, and mobility kit that can be hosted on a tactical vehicle.
Net funding decrease of $2.176 million from FY 2026 to FY 2027 reflects the decrease in contract and testing costs associated with mortar system modernization efforts.
FY2025–FY2026: what came before
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
FY 2026 funding will support the design and development of a next generation 81mm/120mm mortar weapon and fire control system that can be hosted on tactical vehicle when integrated with a mobility system. The systems will be compatible with legacy and future mortar ammunition. Funding will also support procurement of test articles, operational evaluations/transformation in contacts and government testing.
FY 2025 funding furthered the next generation mortar weapon system development, prototyping and testing for the Infantry Battalion Mortar System (IBMS) to increase range and lethality. FY 2025 funding was used to evaluate commercially available mobility systems and engineer their integration directly onto light tactical vehicles such as the High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV), and the Infantry Squad Vehicle Utility (ISV-U).
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 5.8 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 28.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 26.1 |
This activity is 100% of project MS1's FY2027 request and 21% 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 MS1
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.