What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 3259 of PE 0605180N. 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.
FY 2027 funding will purchase three System Developmental test articles (SDTA) C-130J-30 Government Furnished Equipment (GFE). FY 2027 funding continues to provide support to the Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) contract. The EMD Hardware Development efforts for the design, architecture, and integration of a cyber-resilient communications systems to transform a modified C-130J-30 into E-130J through an EMD Contract. Included in these efforts are Government and Contractor Systems Integration Laboratories, Contractor System Test Integration Laboratory, Government Furnished Property (National Security Agency approved encryption devices, Ultra High Frequency modems), High Frequency and the Advanced Extremely High Frequency solutions, Top Secret network development and building required infrastructure includes power generation systems, cooling, flight deck avionics, Electric Magnetic Pulse (EMP) hardening, cyber hardening, and structural modifications to support integration of E-130J mission system equipment
Increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 of $587.028M due to continuation of EMD efforts, including SDTA material purchases and increased testing and integration initiatives.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
FY 2026 funding will be procuring startup materials needed for System Developmental test articles (SDTA) C-130J-30 Government Furnished Equipment (GFE). FY 2026 funding continues to provide support to the Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) contract. The EMD Hardware Development efforts for the design, architecture, and integration of a cyber-resilient communications systems to transform a modified C-130J-30 into E-130J through an Engineering & Manufacturing Development (EMD) Contract. Included in these efforts are Government and Contractor Systems Integration Laboratories, Contractor System Test Integration Laboratory, Government Furnished Property (National Security Agency approved encryption devices, Ultra High Frequency modems), High Frequency and the Advanced Extremely High Frequency solutions, Top Secret network development and building required infrastructure includes power generation systems, cooling, flight deck avionics, Electric Magnetic Pulse (EMP) hardening, cyber hardening, and structural modifications to support integration of E-130J mission system equipment.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 641.2 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 940.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 1,527.9 |
This activity is 92% of project 3259's FY2027 request and 92% of PE 0605180N'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.
2 activities in project 3259
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.