What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project ED9 of PE 0605018A. 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.
FY 2027 funding provides technical and program management contractor services providing systems engineering including business process design, enterprise architecture management, data management, interface management, testing, infrastructure management, audit support, training/deployment support, travel, and technical acquisition services for agile development.
FY 2027 RDT&E decrease due to contractor efficiencies and normalization.
FY2025–FY2026: what came before
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.
FY 2026 funding provides technical and program management contractor services providing systems engineering including business process design, enterprise architecture management, data management, interface management, testing, infrastructure management, audit support, training/deployment support, travel, and technical acquisition services for agile development.
FY 2025 funding provides technical and program management contractor services providing systems engineering including business process design, enterprise architecture management, data management, interface management, testing, cybersecurity, infrastructure management, audit support, training and deployment support. Also, Acquisition and Technical Support Services have moved to Technical Services as part of IPPS-A restructuring for agile development.
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 | 10.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 12.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 10.4 |
This activity is 10% of project ED9's FY2027 request and 10% of PE 0605018A'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.
5 activities in project ED9
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 program-element page.