What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project FE8 of PE 0604852A. 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 Modular Open Systems Architecture (MOSA) software development to support Laser Warning Receiver (LWR) integration, testing, and fielding efforts for ground combat vehicles, and enable future hard kill and soft kill Active Protection Systems (APS) integration with VIPERS and the Vehicle Protection System Base Kit (VBK). Complete Abrams and Bradley VBK with LWR integration, vehicle level testing, logistic product development, and developmental and operational test (DT/OT).
FY 2026 to FY 2027 decrease due to reduced testing requirements for the Vehicle Base Kit with Laser Warning Receiver.
FY2025–FY2026: what came before
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 Modular Open Systems Architecture (MOSA) software development to support Laser Warning Receiver (LWR) integration, testing, and fielding efforts for ground combat vehicles, and enable future hard kill and soft kill Active Protection Systems (APS) integration with VIPERS and the Vehicle Protection System Base Kit (VBK). Focus on Abrams and Bradley VBK with LWR integration, vehicle level testing, logistic product development, and developmental and operational test (DT/OT).
Continue MOSA software development to support Laser Warning Receiver (LWR) integration, test and fielding efforts for ground combat vehicles and enable future hard kill and soft kill active protection systems integration with the VBK. On Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV) and Stryker, complete VBK with LWR integration through Critical Design Review. For Abrams and Bradley continue VBK with LWR integration, vehicle level testing, logistic product development and developmental and operational test (DT/OT).
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 | 39.4 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 23.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 12.0 |
This activity is 15% of project FE8's FY2027 request and 15% of PE 0604852A'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.
3 activities in project FE8
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 program-element page.