What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 657011 of PE 0604932F. 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.
The program will continue to design, develop, integrate and test the LRSO weapon system through the EMD contract. During FY2027, the program plans to complete Developmental Test and Evaluation program execution on B-52. Related FY2027 Activities include, but are not limited to, the following: - continue reliability growth, manufacturability, and maintainability maturation actions for formal Developmental Test and Evaluation activities. - continue systems engineering activities focusing on design for reliability and design for manufacturing. - continue test activities, such as, but not limited to, continued envelope testing and weapon system flight tests. - continue planning for Production Readiness Reviews prior to the build of the IOT&E units. - continue qualification and nuclear hardness testing to verify the system operates in intended environments. - continue planning and development of the logistics support systems. - develop and build associated carriage and launcher equipment, trainers, test equipment and support equipment. - continue to plan, develop, and mature support systems to include Common Support Equipment/Peculiar Support Equipment and transportation equipment. - continue planning for the use of Model Based System Engineering tools during Operations and Sustainment phase in order to transform supply chain management. - continue to mature the weapon system by conducting trade studies, system engineering, test activities, and system modeling and simulation. - continue to further develop analytical, information technology, and data management capabilities. - continue to implement information systems and information technology design to support Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) execution. - continue to expand and mature the analytical, information technology, test, and data management capabilities to ensure access to weapon system design information is properly controlled and securely transmitted between the Government and contractors. - continue to modify, modernize, and expand the analytic environment and labs to support EMD activities to enable full execution of the program's capability to own the technical baseline throughout the program life cycle. This involves establishing a digital engineering system including a supporting environment/infrastructure to perform digital activities, collaborate with and communicate across stakeholders. - continue to plan and execute critical software risk reduction activities. - continue to plan and execute payload and aircraft integration efforts. - continue to, through best program practices, ensure the following are met; requirements flow down, requirement allocation to hardware and software, and the requirements compliance matrix.
Funding increased due to completion of EMD/DT activities and support activities leading up to Aircraft Monitor & Control (AMAC) in FY 2027
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.
The program will continue to design, develop, integrate and test the LRSO weapon system through the EMD contract. During FY2026, the program plans to continue Developmental Test and Evaluation program execution on B-52. Related FY2026 Activities include, but are not limited to, the following: - continue reliability growth, manufacturability, and maintainability maturation actions for formal Developmental Test and Evaluation activities. - continue systems engineering activities focusing on design for reliability and design for manufacturing. - continue test activities, such as, but not limited to, continued envelope testing and weapon system flight tests. - continue planning for Production Readiness Reviews prior to the build of the Initial Operational Test & Evaluation (IOT&E) units. - continue qualification and nuclear hardness testing to verify the system operates in intended environments. - continue planning and development of the logistics support systems. - develop and build associated carriage and launcher equipment, trainers, test equipment and support equipment. - continue to plan, develop, and mature support systems to include Common Support Equipment/Peculiar Support Equipment and transportation equipment. - continue planning for the use of Model Based System Engineering tools during Operations and Sustainment phase in order to transform supply chain management. - continue to mature the weapon system by conducting trade studies, system engineering, test activities, and system modeling and simulation. - continue to further develop analytical, information technology, and data management capabilities. - continue to implement information systems and information technology design to support Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) execution. - continue to expand and mature the analytical, information technology, test, and data management capabilities to ensure access to weapon system design information is properly controlled and securely transmitted between the Government and contractors. - continue to modify, modernize, and expand the analytic environment and labs to support EMD activities to enable full execution of the program's capability to own the technical baseline throughout the program life cycle. This involves establishing a digital engineering system including a supporting environment/infrastructure to perform digital activities, collaborate with and communicate across stakeholders. - continue to plan and execute critical software risk reduction activities. - continue to plan and execute payload and aircraft integration efforts. - continue to, through best program practices, ensure the following are met; requirements flow down, requirement allocation to hardware and software, and the requirements compliance matrix.
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 | 390.1 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 258.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 347.8 |
This activity is 64% of project 657011's FY2027 request and 61% of PE 0604932F'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 657011
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.