What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 673503 of PE 0604840F. 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.
Operational Test activities will continue from FY26 into FY27 under a level-of-effort OT capacity as defined in the Integrated Test Team (ITT) charter and as required to support Block 4 construct's capability releases. These activities may include OT squadron participation in large force fleet-representative exercises or joint force exercises to stress the capabilities in an operational environment. Funding will also be used to continue refining and improving OT data analysis tools and OT data management.
When considering the FY2027 mandatory funding in addition to discretionary funding, the increase from FY2026 to FY2027 is due to additional operational testing and weapon development tests in FY2027 to support added Tech Refresh 2 software delivery in addition to the TR3 software development lines. This adds additional "for score" OT requirements in addition to the additional OT feedback during development cycle. Additionally, increase accounts for procurement of additional HW modification kits for the OT fleet.
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.
Operational Test activities will continue from FY2025 into FY2026 under a level-of-effort OT capacity as defined in the Integrated Test Team (ITT) charter and as required to support Block 4 construct's capability releases. These activities may include OT squadron participation in large force fleet-representative exercises or joint force exercises to stress the capabilities in an operational environment. Funding will also be used to continue refining and improving OT data analysis tools and OT data management.
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 | 15.9 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 12.8 |
| FY2027 | Request | 14.1 |
This activity is 4.9% of project 673503's FY2027 request and 1.2% of PE 0604840F'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.
5 activities in project 673503
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.