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 continues support of the EMD contract. Funding continues for technical expertise and support for development efforts of mission systems, VLF system modernization, airframe modification design, mission systems integration, program management, engineering, test, training, and logistics tasks for E-130J technical and programmatic reviews in preparation for Critical Design Review (CDR). Funding is needed for technical expertise and support for development efforts of mission systems, VLF system modernization, airframe modification design, mission systems integration, program management, engineering, test, training, and logistics tasks for E-130J technical and programmatic reviews in preparation for CDR.
Increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 of $31.717M due to continued technical and programmatic support for the E-130J's mission systems development, VLF modernization, airframe modifications and integration in preparation for CDR.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
FY 2026 continues support of the EMD contract. Funding continues for technical expertise and support for development efforts of mission systems, VLF system modernization, airframe modification design, mission systems integration, program management, engineering, test, training, and logistics tasks for E-130J technical and programmatic reviews in preparation for Preliminary Design Review (PDR) and Critical Design Review (CDR). Funding is needed for technical expertise and support for development efforts of mission systems, VLF system modernization, airframe modification design, mission systems integration, program management, engineering, test, training, and logistics tasks for E-130J technical and programmatic reviews in preparation for Preliminary Design Review (PDR) and Critical Design Review (CDR).
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 86.7 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 103.1 |
| FY2027 | Request | 134.8 |
This activity is 8.1% of project 3259's FY2027 request and 8.1% 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.