What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project DJ3 of PE 0605244A. 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.
Complete competitive demonstration activities and begin transition to qualification and testing in support of replacing the LCRRPR.
Decrease in FY 2027 due to completion of competitive prototyping phase and transition to qualification phase.
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.
Continue development of JR3 Prototype rockets and pods to support design reviews and ground testing of components and systems to support prototype flight demonstrations starting in FY 2026.
Award an Other Transactional Authority to support an initial system requirement review and to develop the design leading up to Interim Design Review #1. Utilize Aviation and Missile Center to support system analysis, trade studies, and prototyping software for launcher fire control system.
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 | 13.1 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 28.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 16.0 |
This activity is 100% of project DJ3's FY2027 request and 100% of PE 0605244A'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 DJ3
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.