R-2A Activity · President's Budget PB2027

Test and Evaluation

Activity a3·Project HX2 — Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW)·PE 0605232A·U.S. Army
FY2027 Request
$44.3M
▼ 62% vs FY2026
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This activity requests $44.3M in FY2027, 9.9% of project HX2, down 62% on FY2026. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2025–FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

FY2027 Request
$44.3M
▼ 62% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$116.4M
▲ 119% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$53.3M
Prior year
Planned work

What the FY2027 request buys

Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project HX2 of PE 0605232A. 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.

FY2027 planned work

FY 2027 funds continue the testing cycle with JFC-7, and Army Ground Support Equipment (GSE) qualification testing. JFC-7 requirements include planning, data collection infrastructure, and full execution of the test. Army GSE qualification testing requirements include continued test planning, and test execution for developmental tests, such as climatic testing, electromagnetic testing, mission-based cybersecurity testing, and similar type DT qualification testing.

FY2026 to FY2027 change

FY 2027 funding decrease due to completing the JFC-6c Ops Demo with FY26 funding.

Before the request year

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.

FY2026 plans — current year

FY 2026 funds continue the testing cycle with JFC-6, which will also serve as the Operational Demonstration (Ops Demo) required of MTA RF programs, and Army Ground Support Equipment (GSE) qualification testing. JFC-6 requirements include planning, data collection infrastructure, and full execution of the test. Army GSE qualification testing requirements include continued test planning, and test execution for developmental tests, such as climatic testing, electromagnetic testing, mission-based cybersecurity testing, and similar type DT qualification testing.

FY2025 accomplishments

FY 2025 Base funds continue the testing cycle with JFC-5 requirements and full execution of the test to include solider TDY, LRHW system transportation costs, and developmental testing. JFC-5 requirements include the final planning and data collection infrastructure. Developmental testing includes: Cyber Table Tops, Cyber Vulnerability Penetration Assessment Planning, Electromagnetic Environmental Effects (E3) planning, execution and reporting.

Money

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.

255075100053.3FY25ACTUAL116.4FY26ENACTED44.3FY27REQUEST
Actual Enacted Request
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual53.3
FY2026Enacted116.4
FY2027Request44.3

This activity is 9.9% of project HX2's FY2027 request and 9.9% of PE 0605232A'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.

Where this sits

5 activities in project HX2

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.

Source
FY2027 Department of the Army RDT&E Budget Justification · Exhibit R-2A · PE 0605232A, project HX2 (President's Budget PB2027). Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, never on an activity.
Machine access
Markdown twin /programs/0605232A/HX2/a3.md · MCP mcp.hitchintel.combudget_get_activity