What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 2571 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.
In Fiscal Year 2027, the ODIN program will achieve critical modernization milestones, establishing the technical foundation for a fully capable and resilient system. These efforts directly support enhanced operational availability and reduce long-term sustainment costs. Key deliverables include: 1) Advanced Software Suite: Deliver the next major ODIN software release, introducing enhanced capabilities and improved user functionality; 2) Next-Generation Hardware: Commence development of the next-generation hardware platform, ensuring technological superiority and mitigating obsolescence; 3) Contested Logistics Support: Integrate and test key hardware components to enable decentralized maintenance operations. This is a critical capability for sustaining the force in contested or dispersed operational environments; and 4) Predictive Maintenance: Develop modernized Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) algorithms to predict system failures before they occur, increasing platform readiness and reducing lifecycle costs. These critical milestones establish the core technical foundation for ODIN, marking a pivotal transition towards a fully modernized system.
Funding decreased from FY2026 to FY2027 to align with F-35 cost share ratios in FY2027.
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.
FY2026 will deliver key ODIN modernization milestones: 1) Completion of modernized ODIN unclassified and classified hardware design and fielding; 2) Country-level data centralization and access, enabling the development and integration of fleet management capabilities; and 3) Deployment of the first slice of the modernized ODIN software stack, incorporating the first tranche of containerized software and enhanced capabilities. These critical milestones establish the core technical foundation for ODIN, marking a pivotal transition towards a fully modernized system. In parallel, development of the next-generation ODIN hardware will continue, along with advancements in the modernized technology stack, software containerization, applications, and integrated data environment.
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 | 16.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 19.6 |
| FY2027 | Request | 18.7 |
This activity is 100% of project 2571's FY2027 request and 4.0% 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.
1 activity in project 2571
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.