What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project B1K of PE 0605058A. 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.
- THAAD participation in Missile Defense System GT operational scenario events to validate THAAD's ability to conduct coordinated engagements with Aegis and PATRIOT operating with C2BMC. - Pre-mission planning, pre- and post-mission analyses, reporting, and execution to support Missile Defense System test campaigns. - GT of element hardware and software prior to hardware-in-the-loop testing to enable an efficient, continuous, capacity-based GT environment. - Continued performance assessments to evaluate system performance and interoperability within the Missile Defense System. - Participation in Wargames and Exercises that support the Combatant Commands with modeling and simulations and subject matter expertise during exercise events. Continue to assist in developing/refining Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures and Pre-Planned Responses to incorporate in future events. Demonstrate THAAD capability to the warfighter community in the Integrated Air and Missile Defense environment. - On-site range support for THAAD maintenance, repair, and pre-mission analysis to ensure THAAD test asset readiness. - Data management, facilities operations, and post-test reporting in support of Missile Defense System tests to ensure data collection and readiness for mission execution. - Performance Assessments to evaluate system performance and interoperability within the Missile Defense System. - Strategic planning, program integration, acquisition, engineering, financial management, internal reviews and audits, and program assessments for THAAD Test Activities.
The increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is the result of the transfer of efforts from the Missile Defense Agency to the Army.
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) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2027 | Request | 31.2 |
This activity is 3.4% of project B1K's FY2027 request and 3.0% of PE 0605058A'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.
4 activities in project B1K
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.