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.
MCL Product Development: Funding provided to initiate the development and testing of hardware and software changes to the MCL, PASM Weapon Adapter Assembly (WAA) and to the AH-1Z aircraft for carriage of PASM on the AH-1Z aircraft, to include the development of the MCL drawings and specifications. MCL Support: Funding provided to initiate development of MCL and AH-1Z aircraft performance requirements, develop acquisition documents and plans, prepare and award contracts, provide technical support, perform System Engineering Technical Reviews, and provide safety and quality assurance support.
Increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to commencing the MCL development for Weapon Adapter Assembly to include drawing and specifications and support efforts for all parts of the MCL plan.
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 | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 46.6 |
This activity is 25% of project 1110's FY2027 request and 25% 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.