What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 3428 of PE 0605513N. 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.
In FY2027, Follow-On Production Other Transaction Agreements will be awarded to allow serial delivery of MUSV vessels, to allow an enduring solution to provide purpose built unmanned vessels to the Warfighter to host various payloads depending on the capability required. The Fleet Operations and Test team will participate in surrogate and prototype MUSV test events to provide government oversight of contractor testing. Multiple contractors will be conducting surrogate and prototype MUSV test events to demonstrate vehicles are able to meet MUSV capability requirements. The FO&T team will coordinate with government and contractor teams to review test plans, conduct Test Readiness Reviews (TRRs), execute contractor testing with government oversight, and report out on test results. The test team will participate in evaluation activities in support of dedicated MUSV production and fielding decisions for MUSV. Planning efforts will continue in support of dedicated MUSV production and testing efforts, including planning for cyber testing of platform and C4I systems and completing development of the Integrated Evaluation Framework (IEF) with OPTEVFOR.
FY27 +$41.250 for MUSV from PE 0605512N realignment
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
In FY2026, Prototype operations will be conducted to support testing events, Fleet events to develop CONOPS and TTPs, and to mature technologies to reduce risk in future programs and to gain confidence in operations. Prototype operations are vital in maturing technologies, checking out systems and components, and gaining confidence in operating these vessels unmanned. During operations, data will be collected on all aspects of the vessel in order to characterize and implement changes and incorporate lessons learned. Other Transaction Agreements will be awarded and managed to accelerate providing platforms and capability to the Fleet.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 41.3 |
This activity is 42% of project 3428's FY2027 request and 16% of PE 0605513N'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 3428
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.