What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project FB3 of PE 0605053A. 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.
Activities include Government engineering, financial management, acquisition planning, risk assessment and mitigation, contract preparation, and operations support necessary for development of Robotic systems.
Decrease in manpower requirement from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is attributed to reduced management of development activities as products transition to production in FY 2027.
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.
Activities include Government engineering, financial management, acquisition planning, risk assessment and mitigation, contract preparation, and operations support necessary for development of Robotic systems.
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) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | Enacted | 19.8 |
| FY2027 | Request | 17.6 |
This activity is 9.2% of project FB3's FY2027 request and 9.2% of PE 0605053A'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.
8 activities in project FB3
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.