What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 3218 of PE 0605504N. 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.
Continue ECP 6 and ECP 7 integration including correction of deficiencies. Continue Government-led LCI efforts including correction of deficiencies, associated ground support system development, TOC/AMG systems, training systems upgrades, and Integrated Flight Test and Evaluation efforts.
The decrease of $45.446 Million from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to the decrease in Trainer Development and Platform Integration requirements.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
Continue ECP 6 and ECP 7 integration including correction of deficiencies. Continue Government-led LCI efforts including correction of deficiencies, associated ground support system development, TOC/AMG systems, training systems upgrades, and Integrated Flight Test and Evaluation efforts.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 99.5 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 82.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 36.6 |
This activity is 69% of project 3218's FY2027 request and 69% of PE 0605504N'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 3218
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.