What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 645352 of PE 0604858F. 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.
- Complete testing of weapon/target pairing capabilities. - Complete development of an operational experimentation of a long-range kill chain, including advanced communication techniques. - Complete test of minimum viable product operating on cloud-based digital infrastructure in C3BM transition environment.
FY 2027 decreased compared to FY 2026 by $17.043 million due to planned ramp down of development program and transition to operational programs.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
- Continue testing of weapon/target pairing capabilities. - Continue end-to-end kill chain experimentation, including advanced communication techniques. - Complete software modifications and code refactoring to transition minimum viable product to cloud-based digital infrastructure transition program environment.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 37.8 |
| FY2027 | Request | 20.8 |
This activity is 34% of project 645352's FY2027 request and 13% of PE 0604858F'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 645352
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.