What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project MT08 of PE 0604887C. 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 laboratory test infrastructure planning to integrate and test the upgraded Ground-Based Midcourse Defense Program hardware and software in support of flight, ground, and cyber testing. - Continue testing infrastructure and coordination for flight test range support from VSFB for future flight testing. - Continue testing infrastructure and coordination of the test communications support to integrate in VSFB, MDIOC, FGA, and PMRF for future, and significantly more complex, testing. - Continue integration of Computer in the Loop and/or HWIL hardware and software in Government labs to support integration, ground and flight testing.
Decrease from Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 to FY 2027 is in accordance with the Integrated Master Test Plan requirements. The Missile Defense System Test Program realigned the Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) Flight Test Budget from Program Element (PE) Ballistic Missile Defense Test 0603914C to PE Ballistic Missile Defense Midcourse Defense Segment Test 0604887C.
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 laboratory test infrastructure planning to integrate and test the upgraded Ground-Based Midcourse Defense Program hardware and software in support of flight, ground, and cyber testing. - Continue testing infrastructure and coordination for flight test range support from VSFB for future flight testing. - Continue testing infrastructure and coordination of the test communications support to integrate in VSFB, MDIOC, FGA, and PMRF for future, and significantly more complex, testing. - Initiate integration of Computer in the Loop and/or HWIL hardware and software in Government labs to support integration, ground and flight 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 | 16.5 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 19.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 14.4 |
This activity is 28% of project MT08's FY2027 request and 27% of PE 0604887C'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 MT08
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.