What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 673506 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.
Continue software development efforts that deploy software tools to increase capacity within the reprogramming laboratories. Continue ongoing efforts to support aircraft in relation to Continuous Development Capability Delivery (C2D2). Continue to upgrade Reprogramming Verification & Validation Systems (RVVS) to meet the Block 4 capability requirements and meet next generation threats. Complete efforts for the AGILE development of Common Reprogramming Tools (CRT) to provide Electronic Warfare Squadrons with essential software tools that reduce both Mission Data File (MDF) development time & human error while increasing combat effectiveness. Complete development support for defining, managing and acquiring the F-35 Reprogramming capability enhancements identified in approved requirements documents for Block 4 and modernization efforts and support efforts for joint reprogramming enterprise activities. Continue efforts with Advanced Development, Integration, & Test (BFC) contract to integrate Block 4 software data loads at reprogramming laboratories. Continue efforts to improving the velocity of MDF development, improving the tools available to the reprogramming laboratories to process and reprograming operational data, and to support rapid reprogramming activities.
When considering the FY2027 mandatory funding in addition to discretionary funding, the increase from FY2026 to FY2027 reflects funds needed for Block 4 integration and Air System Alignment, which is required to ensure mission readiness.
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.
Continue efforts for the AGILE development of Common Reprogramming Tools (CRT) to provide Electronic Warfare Squadrons with essential software tools that reduce both Mission Data File (MDF) development time & human error while increasing combat effectiveness. Continue software development efforts that deploy software tools to increase capacity within the reprogramming laboratories. Continue to upgrade Reprogramming Verification & Validation Systems (RVVS) to meet the Block 4 capability requirements and meet next generation threats. Continue ongoing efforts to support aircraft in relation to Continuous Development Capability Delivery (C2D2). Continue development support for defining, managing and acquiring the F-35 Reprogramming capability enhancements identified in approved requirements documents for Block 4 and modernization efforts and support efforts for joint reprogramming enterprise activities. Continue efforts with Advanced Development, Integration & Test (BFC) contract to integrate Block 4 software data loads at reprogramming laboratories. Continue efforts for improving the velocity of MDF development, improving the tools available to the reprogramming laboratories to process and reprograming operational data, and to support rapid reprogramming activities.
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 | 18.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 20.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 19.7 |
This activity is 49% of project 673506's FY2027 request and 1.7% 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.
2 activities in project 673506
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.