What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project EY8 of PE 0605052A. 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.
- Continue technology design and integration phase with up to two vendors supporting development efforts - Continue to support integration of 2nd Interceptor with IBCS command and control and the IFPC Inc 2 launcher with up to two vendors - Continue development and integration of components to support HWIL test and evaluation scheduled for 1Q-2QFY28 - Conduct Design Maturity Reviews (DMR) with each vendor in 1QFY27 and 3QFY27 to assess maturity levels and system architectures prior to component testing
- Increase in FY 2027 is to support the development of Hardware/Software In the Loop demonstrations
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.
- Finalize design concept based on feasibility study - Initiate technology design and demonstration phase with up to two vendors to begin 2nd interceptor development efforts - Begin integration of 2nd interceptor with IBCS command and control and the IFPC Inc 2 launcher with up to two vendors - Initiate procurement of prototype material to support integration and demonstration of prototype hardware and software for up to two vendors
- Received Aquisition Decision Memorandum (ADM) in 1QFY2025 for authority to proceed with Feasibility Studies with up to four vendors - The Agreements Officer (AO) negotiated and awarded the agreements - Initiated IFPC 2nd Interceptor Feasibility Studies
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 | 28.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 125.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 140.3 |
This activity is 100% of project EY8's FY2027 request and 80% of PE 0605052A'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 EY8
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.