What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project MD80 of PE 0604874C. 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 AUR CDR. - Complete generation of evidence for KP #3, which includes live sequence demonstrations, confirmation of AUR supportability, software, and completion of subsystem qualification. - Conduct Stage 1 (S1) and Stage 2 (S2) SRM Qualification Static Fire Tests. - Complete KP # 3, which includes live sequence demonstrations, confirmation of AUR supportability, software, and subsystem qualification. - Continue integration of Next Generation Interceptor Computer in the Loop/Hardware in the Loop hardware and software in Government labs to support GMD Weapon System integration and ground/flight testing. - Initiate integrated AUR qualification testing. - Purchase of materials for the first ten (10) AURs. - Development activities to initiate Early Kill Vehicle Flight Experiment Mission other risk reduction activities.
Decrease from FY 2026 to FY 2027 reflects completion of AUR technical design and transition to integration, test, and initial production activities.
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.
- Complete integrated AUR design. - Complete KP #2, which includes sub-assembly qualifications, verification of AUR performance using verified models, and completion of propulsion and sensor performance testing (planned in the FY 2025 President's Budget (PB) request). - Generate evidence for KP #3, which includes live sequence demonstrations, confirmation of AUR supportability, software, and completion of subsystem qualification (planned in the FY 2025 PB25 request). - Complete boost vehicle qualification testing. - Complete payload [Mission Support Vehicle (MSV) and Kill Vehicle (KV)] qualification testing. - Complete payload (MSV and KV) software Formal Qualification Testing. - Deliver and initiate integration of Next Generation Interceptor Computer in the Loop/Hardware in the Loop hardware and software in Government labs to support GMD Weapon System integration and ground/flight testing. - Deliver updated high-fidelity Next Generation Interceptor models and simulations supporting ground testing. - Continue pre-production planning and related logistics life cycle evaluation. - Complete AUR Supportability Demonstrations. - Continue dual-path Stage 1 Solid Rocket Motor (SRM) development. - Conduct Stage 1 (S1) and Stage 2 (S2) SRM Static Fire Tests. - Deliver software to support multiple GMD Integrated Development and Execution. - Deliver software capability release updates. - Deliver updated high-fidelity models and simulations representing the integrated AUR design. - Initiate integrated AUR qualification testing.
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 | 1,523.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 1,438.8 |
| FY2027 | Request | 1,256.6 |
This activity is 98% of project MD80's FY2027 request and 93% of PE 0604874C'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.
2 activities in project MD80
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.