What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 1110 of PE 0605450M. 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 support required Developmental Test and Evaluation (DT&E), Integrated Test and Evaluation (IT&E) and Operational Test and Evaluation (OT&E) to support Early Operational capability. This includes all container qualification, qualification and airworthiness testing for the PASM and modified launcher, continued warhead qualification efforts and a Quick Reaction Assessment of the PASM capability. Delta qualification and airworthiness testing to complete the full qualification of PASM on AH-1Z will begin.
Funding increase from FY 2026 to FY2027 is due to increased Test and Evaluation costs to achieve EOC.
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 support Modeling and Simulation (M&S) and initial Developmental Test and Evaluation (DT&E), to include but not limited to component level testing, ground and captive carry flight testing.
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 | 1.5 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 13.2 |
| FY2027 | Request | 17.4 |
This activity is 9.2% of project 1110's FY2027 request and 9.2% of PE 0605450M'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 1110
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.