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 prioritize the development of robust C&L systems. This includes ongoing refinement of command-and-control mission equipment, the wing command center, and crucial cryptographic systems and interfaces. Develop communications systems (hardware and software), air and ground hardware, and control equipment to ensure the survivability, monitoring, and successful launch of the replacement flight system. Continue to develop launch systems, including launch equipment, ground mechanical and actuation systems, specialized support equipment, ground power, signal distribution, and security systems, and essential interfaces at various command centers and launch silos. Ongoing efforts will focus on maturing command and launch capabilities, cybersecurity, and operator and maintenance systems, encompassing both hardware and software, security architecture, and ground technologies. Continue to refine weapon system software, integration, architecture, and lifecycle management. To support these objectives, this effort will continue to conduct trade studies, market research, and analyses, to pursue initiatives to optimize the schedule and reduce lifecycle costs as it moves towards production. Continue to conduct rigorous systems engineering to establish an allocated baseline. Continue to mature logistics and product support, as well as capability integration with the NC3 enterprise and nuclear command architecture, including collaboration with the DoW and NSA on cryptographic assets.
Funding increased due to a reduction of FY2026 Discretionary efforts. FY2027 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.
Prioritize the development of robust C&L systems. This includes ongoing refinement of command-and-control mission equipment, the wing command center, and crucial cryptographic systems and interfaces. Develop communications systems (hardware and software), air and ground hardware, and control equipment to ensure the survivability, monitoring, and successful launch of the replacement flight system. Develop launch systems, including launch equipment, ground mechanical and actuation systems, ground power, signal distribution, and security systems, and essential interfaces at various command centers and launch silos. Ongoing efforts will focus on maturing command and launch capabilities, cybersecurity, and operator and maintenance systems, encompassing both hardware and software, security architecture, and ground technologies. Refinement of weapon system software, integration, architecture, and lifecycle management remains a priority. To support these objectives, this effort will conduct trade studies, market research, and analyses, to pursue initiatives to optimize the schedule and reduce lifecycle costs as it moves towards production. Conduct rigorous systems engineering to establish an allocated baseline. Mature logistics and product support, as well as capability integration with the NC3 (Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications) enterprise and nuclear command architecture, including collaboration with the DoW and NSA on cryptographic assets.
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 | 385.7 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 482.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 981.7 |
This activity is 22% of project 655238's FY2027 request and 22% 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.