What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 655238 of PE 0605238F. 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.
Continue to implement updated specifications, execute design reviews, and mature critical components like AVE, support systems, specialized support equipment, cybersecurity, and nuclear surety architectures. Continue to refine the Mission Modeling Framework to assess performance against evolving threats. Continue to mature the weapon system through trade studies, modeling, simulation, and analysis. Continue to ensure seamless integration of cryptographic systems and Department of Energy technologies through software development, hardware integration, and collaboration with government agencies. Continue to integrate the ICBM Fuze Modernization and Mk21A Reentry Vehicle to the LGM-35A Sentinel weapon system. Increase efforts to leverage mission partners to conduct in-depth technical analysis, digital modeling, subsystem testing, to maintain a strong technical baseline. Increase efforts to pursue initiatives to optimize the schedule, reduce risks, and minimize lifecycle costs while incorporating evolving threat information and higher-fidelity designs into weapon system assessments. Increase efforts to develop an adaptable industrial base by developing mission effectiveness capabilities, thereby improving certification strategies, and developing comprehensive sustainment strategies for all system components.
Funding increased due to the risk reduction / parallel path efforts identified through the program restructure activities, TMRR efforts to achieve MS-B, and the EMD prime contract schedule incentive fee identified in the "Omni-Mod” contract framework.
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.
Implement updated specifications, execute design reviews, and mature critical components like AVE, support systems, cybersecurity, and nuclear surety architectures. Refine the Mission Modeling Framework to assess performance against evolving threats. Mature the weapon system through trade studies, modeling, simulation, and analysis. Ensure seamless integration of cryptographic systems and Department of Energy technologies through software development, hardware integration, and collaboration with government agencies. Integrate the ICBM Fuze Modernization and Mk21A Reentry Vehicle to the LGM-35A Sentinel weapon system. Leverage mission partners to conduct in-depth technical analysis, subsystem testing, to maintain a strong technical baseline. Pursue initiatives to optimize the schedule, reduce risks, and minimize lifecycle costs while incorporating evolving threat information and higher-fidelity designs into weapon system assessments. Establish an adaptable industrial base by developing mission effectiveness capabilities, thereby improving certification strategies, and developing comprehensive sustainment strategies for all system components.
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 | 522.6 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 858.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 1,452.8 |
This activity is 32% of project 655238's FY2027 request and 32% of PE 0605238F'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 655238
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.