What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project A34 of PE 0605347A. 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.
FY 2027 funding will continue efforts to increase commonality and improve producibility, resulting in cost efficiencies and system improvements among the C-sUAS sensor variants, such as procuring prototype hardware and conducting prototype integration and testing in support of redesign of line replaceable units, due to obsolescence and multiple components approaching end-of-life. Funding will support development and testing of updated technical manuals and safety documentation required to conduct a Logistics Demonstration for the C-sUAS mobile solution, to initiate transition to field level sustainment. Funding will address hardware obsolescence and replacement for interceptor system components, resulting in higher operational availability and a lower cost. Funding will also support biannual C-sUAS system-of-systems integration/record tests for new and enhanced components, systems, and subsystems.
FY 2026 to FY 2027 funding increase is due to the ramp up of efforts in support of transitioning M-LIDS to field level sustainment.
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.
FY 2026 funding will continue efforts to increase commonality and improve producibility among the CsUAS sensor variants, such as procuring prototype hardware in support of redesign of line replaceable units (e.g., System Control Unit and Advanced Back-End Unit), due to obsolescence and multiple components approaching end-of-life. Funding will also support biannual C-sUAS system-of-systems integration/record tests for new and enhanced components, systems, and subsystems.
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 | 13.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 23.6 |
This activity is 6.6% of project A34's FY2027 request and 6.6% of PE 0605347A'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.
5 activities in project A34
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.