What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 2569 of PE 0604840M. 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 Development of Digital Infrastructure (DI) capabilities, accreditation for DT infrastructure used for performance testing, and associated efforts that enable development and test of F-35 Block 4 Air System Capabilities. DI efforts will be made to both DoW Organic Infrastructure such as integrated battlespace testing improvements to the anechoic chamber and associated labs as well as industry laboratory infrastructure. Additional scope includes the development and integration of USG Organic Software Centers at various DoW installations. Increased scope includes vendor infrastructure improvement and modernization within LM and supplier labs needed for Block 4 air system capability development. LM DI efforts include updates to simulation software, improvements to stimulation labs, test equipment procurement, and engineering and test operations in support of EW, radar, communications, and weapon capabilities. Budget will also cover support for the execution of DI accreditation activities for DT needed to support the planning and reporting on the verification and validation of DI to enable the use of DI as capability verification venue.
When considering the FY2027 mandatory funding in addition to discretionary funding, the funding increase from FY2026 to FY2027 is due to the procurement of hardware for the creation of new Organic Software Centers for development and test infrastructure capabilities, and the recategorization of development of simulation and stimulation equipment to be captured under Digital Infrastructure instead of individual PMOs for the purpose of commonality across Enterprise Lab and Ground Test Venues.
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 Ground Stimulation and Simulation Infrastructure Improvements and Modifications (I&M), Modeling & Simulation (M&S) accreditation for DT infrastructure used for performance testing, and associated efforts that enable development and test of F-35 Block 4 Air System Capabilities. I&M efforts will be made to both DoW Organic Infrastructure such as integrated battlespace testing improvements to the anechoic chamber and associated labs, and Software Centers at various service member locations, as well as non-organic infrastructure within LM labs needed for Block 4 air system capability development. LM I&M efforts include updates to simulation software, improvements to stimulation labs, test equipment procurement, and engineering and test operations in support of EW, radar, communications, and weapon capabilities. Budget will also cover support for the execution of M&S accreditation activities for DT needed to support the planning and reporting on the verification and validation of M&S to enable the use of M&S as capability verification venue.
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 | 1.2 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 3.4 |
| FY2027 | Request | 10.7 |
This activity is 7.5% of project 2569's FY2027 request and 2.3% of PE 0604840M'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 2569
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.