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.
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 through program practices to ensure the following are met; requirements flow down, requirement allocation to hardware and software, requirements compliance matrix, system performance, reliability, maintainability, product assurance, testability, producibility and supportability. - continue facility and security infrastructure upgrades to enable secure connectivity and communication between DoW, DoE, and industry. - continue efforts to conduct parallel development, design, and test activities with the DoE to ensure the LRSO adequately integrates the DoE designed warhead into the system. - conduct safety studies and nuclear certification activities. - continue to perform aircraft integration efforts including activities associated with integration on threshold aircraft and aircraft mission planning system upgrades to accommodate the new weapon. - continue to conduct joint DoW and DOE ground and flight activities to verify the missile to warhead interface and demonstrate the system meets performance specifications. - continue to collaborate with the NNSA to ensure seamless integration of DoE warhead assets into the cruise missile. - continue to execute and improve the unified certification strategy which meets nuclear surety, cyber security, and nuclear safety requirements. - continue other activities necessary for All-Up-Round integration. These efforts include developing mission planning upgrade needs, Operational Flight Program (OFP) development and integration to deliver the OFP test tapes, planning activities necessary to integrate LRSO with aircraft, and ensuring the logical, electrical, and physical interfaces of the LRSO as defined in the Interface Control Document (ICD).
Funding increased due to completion activities of B-52 integration and increased nuclear certification 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.
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 through program practices to ensure the following are met; requirements flow down, requirement allocation to hardware and software, requirements compliance matrix, system performance, reliability, maintainability, product assurance, testability, producibility and supportability. - continue facility and security infrastructure upgrades to enable secure connectivity and communication between Department of War (DoW), Department of Energy (DoE), and industry. - continue efforts to conduct parallel development, design, and test activities with the DOE to ensure the LRSO adequately integrates the DOE designed warhead into the system. - conduct safety studies and nuclear certification activities. - continue to perform aircraft integration efforts including activities associated with integration on threshold aircraft and aircraft mission planning system upgrades to accommodate the new weapon. - continue to conduct joint DoW and DoE ground and flight activities to verify the missile to warhead interface and demonstrate the system meets performance specifications. - continue to collaborate with the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to ensure seamless integration of DOE warhead assets into the cruise missile. - continue to execute and improve the unified certification strategy which meets nuclear surety, cyber security, and nuclear safety requirements. - continue other activities necessary for All-Up-Round integration. These efforts include developing mission planning upgrade needs, Operational Flight Program (OFP) development and integration to deliver the OFP test tapes, planning activities necessary to integrate LRSO with aircraft, and ensuring the logical, electrical, and physical interfaces of the LRSO as defined in the Interface Control Document (ICD).
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 | 140.6 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 132.6 |
| FY2027 | Request | 136.9 |
This activity is 25% of project 657011's FY2027 request and 24% 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.