What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project DG5 of PE 0605241A. 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 integration and assembly of MV-75 prototype aircraft, inclusive of two (2) planned Limited User Test (LUT) aircraft, begin initial prototype aircraft deliveries, continue development engineering activities, and initiate prototype testing.
FY27 funding increase is attributable to contract cost growth, alignment with Army acceleration plan, and initiation of prototype aircraft testing as MV-75 prototype aircraft begin to be delivered.
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.
Complete weapon system Critical Design Review (CDR), continue prototype aircraft builds (1-8), begin developmental testing, incorporate design updates informed by the testing, and initiate production planning. Continue Government Furnished Equipment (GFE) prototype integration and developmental testing (including communications, navigation, sensors, and aircraft survivability equipment).
Continue design activities culminating in the FLRAA Weapon System Critical Design Review, continue aircraft prototype manufacturing for EMD aircraft prototypes one through six, continue Government Furnished Equipment (GFE) for prototype integration and developmental testing (including communications, navigation, sensors, and aircraft survivability equipment). Continue maturation of critical enabling capabilities (such as digital engineering infrastructure and digital engineering tools), and begin to manufacture FLRAA EMD aircraft prototypes seven and eight, which will support Limited User Test (LUT).
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 | 1,015.4 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 1,195.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 2,117.5 |
This activity is 99% of project DG5's FY2027 request and 99% of PE 0605241A'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 DG5
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.