What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 161 of PE 0605161D8Z. 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.
This effort will result in achieving key Office of the Secretary of War-level metrics, including: - Development of critical enterprise models to identify chokepoints across enterprise requiring mitigation to enable pursuance of opportunities; - Improve understanding of health and wellness of the Nuclear Enterprise and its enabling contributors; - Identify and exploit schedule and fiscal opportunities in nuclear modernization efforts; - Improve understanding of strategic advantage relative to the increasing threats posed by Russia and China; and - Identify and mitigate gaps and seams across the five major components of the nuclear enterprise.
FY 2026 to FY 2027 increase reflects the need to increase modeling capability and capacity at scale due to increasing programmatic and geopolitical risk to address future enhancements to the DoW nuclear modernization and sustainment efforts.
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.
This effort will result in achieving key Office of the Secretary of War-level metrics, including: - Improve understanding of the health and wellness of the Nuclear Enterprise and its enabling contributors; - Identify and exploit schedule and fiscal opportunities in nuclear modernization efforts; - Improve nuclear enterprise supply chain management; - Improve understanding of strategic advantage relative to the increasing threats posed by Russia and China; and - Identify and mitigate gaps and seams across the five major components of the nuclear enterprise.
This effort will result in achieving key Office of the Secretary of Defense-level metrics, including: - Improve understanding of the health and wellness of the Nuclear Enterprise and its enabling contributors; - Identify and exploit schedule and fiscal opportunities in nuclear modernization efforts; - Improve nuclear enterprise supply chain management; - Improve understanding of strategic advantage relative to the increasing threats posed by Russia and China; and - Identify and mitigate gaps and seams across the five major components of the nuclear enterprise.
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 | 4.7 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 3.6 |
| FY2027 | Request | 12.9 |
This activity is 59% of project 161's FY2027 request and 59% of PE 0605161D8Z'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.
7 activities in project 161
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.