What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project CQ4 of PE 0605235A. 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 of $82.550 million continues all aspects of MRC technology upgrade development. This funding supports prototype systems through iterative improvements in survivability, reliability, and operational effectiveness based on evolving system requirements. Funding allows for continued development of system improvements utilizing evaluation, design, prototyping, testing, engineering, configuration management, component and system-level qualification activities, operational demonstrations, operator/maintainer training development, and full integration of all functional support to ensure operational safety and effectiveness of all fielded and in-development systems meet performance needs. Funding also supports the system engineering and program management required to meet Army ground-launch requirements. This includes coordination with the original equipment manufacturer and partnering government agencies to ensure a common MRC Ground Support Equipment (GSE) configuration across all batteries. Funding enables government-contractor systems engineering for system integration and checkout; validation of cybersecurity standards; software development management; transportability assessments; and the planning and execution of developmental and operational test events necessary to support fielding. This funding allows for developing, testing, evaluating, systems engineering, and integrating of system improvements while ensuring safe, suitable, and sustainable operational fielding of the MRC GSE solution through WSMs adding additional capabilities to the prototype batteries. Additional integration efforts include improved networking and communications, enhanced reloading, improved mobility, weight reduction, M-Code implementation, software development, cybersecurity, transportability, conditioning, protection, and technology upgrades for future Standard Missile-6 and Tomahawk missile variants. This effort also includes design, integration, and testing activities to ensure the Reduced BOC Footprint (RBF) meets established system objectives and maintains operational effectiveness. Provides systems engineering and government program management required to manage development activities.
FY 2026 to FY 2027 decrease is due to ramping down of initial development efforts on the RBF, a decrease in Test and Evaluation costs due to completion of Operational Demonstration in FY 2026, reduction in System Integration Lab support costs due to fielding of battery 4, and reduced RDTE Systems Engineering / Program Management requirements as these shift to Procurement in support of RBF production.
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.
FY 2026 funding in the amount of $182.128 million continues all aspects of developing MRC technology upgrades. Provides prototype systems with iterative survivability, reliability, and operational effectiveness improvements based on evolving system requirement to ensure operational effectiveness. Funding allows for continued development of system improvements utilizing evaluation, design, prototyping, testing, engineering, configuration management, component and system-level qualification activities, operational demonstrations, operator/maintainer training development, and integration of all functional support to ensure operational safety and effectiveness of all fielded and in-development systems meet performance needs. Funding also allows for the system engineering and program management of Army ground launch requirements to include the original equipment manufacturer and other government agencies to ensure a common MRC GSE across all batteries. Funding provides for the Government and contractor coordination required to perform systems engineering for system integration and check out, validate cybersecurity standards, manage software development, ensure transportability, and plan and execute test and evaluation events to support fielding. This funding allows for developing, testing, evaluating, systems engineering, and integrating of system improvements while ensuring safe, suitable, and sustainable operational fielding of the MRC GSE solution through Weapon System Modifications adding additional capabilities to the prototype batteries. Additional integration efforts include improved communications, rapid reloading, improved mobility, weight reduction, M-Code implementation, software development, cybersecurity, transportability, environmental, and technology upgrades for future Standard Missile-6 and Tomahawk missile variants. Provides systems engineering and government program management required to deliver the prototype battery to a combat unit.
The FY 2025 Base funding in the amount of $176.150 million funds the fabrication, integration of design requirements, and test and evaluation for the Mid-Range Capabilities (MRC) Ground Support Equipment (GSE) and to enable completion and fielding of the prototype Battery 3. Base funding allows for integration of design requirements and evaluation of MRC GSE required characteristics to ensure safe and effective operational fielding of the prototype Batteries 3 and 4. Funds the Original Equipment Manufacturer's (OEM) effort to purchase hardware and materials and receive Government Furnished Equipment (GFE) to fabricate and to support component-level and system-level qualification for MRC GSE. Base funding also allows for the System Engineering and Program Management of integration across military branches to include the OEM contractor and Other Government Agencies (OGA) in order to ensure a common MRC GSE. Funding provides for the Government and Contractor coordination required to perform systems engineering for system integration and check out, verify cybersecurity requirements, manage software development, verify transportation requirements, and plan and execute test and evaluation events to support fielding. This funding allows for developing, testing, evaluating, systems engineering and integrating of system improvements while ensuring safe, suitable and sustainable operational fielding of the MRC GSE solution through Weapon System Modifications (WSM) adding additional capabilities to the prototype batteries. Additional integration efforts include improved communications, rapid reloading, improved mobility, weight reduction, M-Code implementation, software development, cyber security, transportability and locality-based enhancements. Provides Systems Engineering and Government Program Management required to deliver the prototype battery to a combat unit.
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 | 176.2 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 182.1 |
| FY2027 | Request | 82.6 |
This activity is 100% of project CQ4's FY2027 request and 100% of PE 0605235A'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.
1 activity in project CQ4
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.