What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 3368 of PE 0605500N. 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.
Accelerate development and fielding of critical warfighting Rapid Capability Insertion (RCI) packages that deter attack and prevail in conflict. Key efforts include: Finalizing RCI-4 Common Weapons Synchronization /Airborne Weapons Simulator (AWS) to incorporate LRASM, Mk54 Mod 2 Torpedo capabilities, and ASW enhancements into the I3B2 P-8A software configuration. Accelerating RCI-5 Advanced Survivability Pod (ASP) and Dual Band Decoy (DBD) development, integration and test, I3B2 platform software and trainer integration, Mission Support Cell (MSC), and ASP mixed wing store airworthiness certification. This effort leverages Modular Open Systems Architectures (MOSA) to enable rapid and affordable capability and insertion.
Increase of $41.936 from FY26 to FY27 due to Primary HW/SW Development of Radio Frequency Countermeasure (RFCM) Self Protection Pod/Advanced Survivability Pod (ASP) development and integration of critical wartime-tempo aircrew survivability capabilities, to include Dual Band Decoy integration, Increment 3 Block 2 platform and trainer integration, flight test, and airworthiness certification.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
Continue to develop RCI packages and rapid/urgent development efforts to incrementally incorporate software and hardware capability improvements, building on the P-8A Baseline to ensure ongoing relevance of the P-8A capability. Continuing RCI-4 efforts include the LRASM capability merge as well as the initial Mk54 Mod 2 capability into the baseline P-8A software configuration. Continuing ASP (RCI-5) efforts include initiating pod level integration and test as well as platform software integration efforts.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 32.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 40.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 81.9 |
This activity is 94% of project 3368's FY2027 request and 94% of PE 0605500N'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.
2 activities in project 3368
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.