What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project A5D of PE 0605345A. 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.
Funds will be utilized to execute LE System Development for LE Short Range, LE Medium Range, and LE Long Range to include system integration, system test and evaluation, system engineering and program management, and transportation.
The increase in funding reflects the change in Acquisition Strategy to Urgent Capability Acquisition that allows for execution of LE prototype replenishment to address multiple size variants and payload capabilities.
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.
Will execute LE System Development to include system integration, system test and evaluation, system engineering and program management and transportation.
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) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | Enacted | 169.2 |
| FY2027 | Request | 172.8 |
This activity is 100% of project A5D's FY2027 request and 21% of PE 0605345A'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 A5D
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 project page.