What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project ITD of PE 0605051A. 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.
ITDS: FY 2027 RDTE dollars will fund multiplatform aircraft integration, Qualification testing, reliability testing, model based systems engineering, digital systems engineering model, system architecture, Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE), Integrated Product Support, Cybersecurity, technical readiness assessments, training development, data products such as operator and technical manuals, and multiple prototypes.
FY 2027 level of effort increased due to development engineering needed to fully mature the ITDS for production, multiplatform aircraft integration, Qualification testing, reliability testing, model based systems engineering, digital systems engineering model, system architecture, Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE), Integrated Product Support, Cybersecurity, technical readiness assessments, training development, data products such as operator and technical manuals, and multiple prototypes.
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.
ITDS: FY2026 RDTE dollars will fund prototype design and demonstration testing, prototype application hosting, sensor characterization and flight test, digital simulation modelling assessments, aircraft integration strategies, reliability, manufacturing, and technical readiness assessments.
Improved Threat Detection System (ITDS): FY2025 Base RDTE dollars in the amount of $28.425 million will fund continuation of development effort including prototype demonstration and test, execution of contract(s) to initiate Product Development, and program management/ technical oversight for ITDS.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 27.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 31.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 78.5 |
This activity is 100% of project ITD's FY2027 request and 74% of PE 0605051A'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.
1 activity in project ITD
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.