What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 2562 of PE 0604840N. 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.
Efforts include USN Unique Operational Testing, supporting various integrated tests and investigations. Major testing event include but are not limited to TOPGUN Support, Orange Flag, JSOW LAR Investigation, Patriot Support, Hornet H16 Interoperability, Fleet Anomaly Investigations, Interoperability Large Force Exercise, and other emerging USN test priorities. The following will be funded in order to support various tests and investigations: manpower, weapons, flight hours, range time, and chase, target & tanker support assets, as well as USN systems engineering efforts and other emerging USN requirements.
Decrease from FY2026 to FY2027 is due to decrease in test support required at Naval Air Forces Pacific.
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.
Efforts include USN Unique Operational Testing, supporting various integrated tests and investigations. Major testing event include but are not limited to TOPGUN Support, Orange Flag, JSOW LAR Investigation, Patriot Support, Hornet H16 Interoperability, Fleet Anomaly Investigations, Interoperability Large Force Exercise, and other emerging USN test priorities. The following will be funded in order to support various tests and investigations: manpower, weapons, flight hours, range time, and chase, target & tanker support assets, as well as USN systems engineering efforts and other emerging USN requirements.
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 | 14.2 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 13.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 12.4 |
This activity is 100% of project 2562's FY2027 request and 2.9% of PE 0604840N'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 2562
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.