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 Government formally arranges and funds the use of Government flight test support for ground and flight test activities. During FY27, the program plans to complete Developmental Test and Evaluation program execution on B-52. Related FY27 Activities include, but are not limited to, the following: - Ground Test Phasing: Majority of E3, Natural Environments, and Induced taking place and continue to perform design validation, verification, test, nuclear certification activities (to include design and operational certification) and system qualification activities. - continue test planning and execution activities to support the LRSO weapon development, All-Up-Round technical integration, warhead integration and aircraft integration, and begin the integrated Test/Reliability Assessment Program. - continue coordination with external test agencies in preparation for operational and post-production flight testing.
Funding increased due to completion of final Development Test activities and conduction of Integrated Test-Reliability Assessment Program prior to Initial Operational Test & Evaluation
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 Government formally arranges and funds the use of Government flight test support for ground and flight test activities. 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: - Ground Test Phasing: Majority of E3, Natural Environments, and Induced taking place and continue to perform design validation, verification, test, nuclear certification activities (to include design and operational certification) and system qualification activities. - continue test planning and execution activities to support the LRSO weapon development, All-Up-Round technical integration, warhead integration and aircraft integration, and begin the integrated Test/Reliability Assessment Program. - continue coordination with external test agencies in preparation for operational and post-production 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 | 48.8 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 56.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 60.9 |
This activity is 11% of project 657011's FY2027 request and 11% 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.