What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 3334 of PE 0605518N. 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.
- Execute JFC-5 flight test. T&E efforts support launch operations and test planning to include test equipment, assembly tooling, handling hardware, relevant subcomponent ground testing, pathfinder activities, and field activity support. Upon test completion, perform data collection and analysis. - Complete planning and execution JFC-6 flight test. T&E efforts support launch operations and test planning to include test equipment, assembly tooling, handling hardware, relevant subcomponent ground testing, pathfinder activities, and field activity support. Upon test completion, perform data collection and analysis. - Continue utilization of broad ocean area flight test data collection assets, supporting JFC-5 and JFC-6. Continue incremental upgrades of data collection assets to improve the ability to verify threshold lethality requirements during future testing. - Commence test planning and reviews for JFC-8 series. In advance of the test event, the T&E program will begin the test requirements analysis phase, followed by initial and detailed planning phases, an execution readiness review, and finally a mission readiness review to ensure aspects of the test are ready to support commencing test count down. - Complete Shock Test Planning (Grade B for the deployed elements of the CPS WS). - Continue procurement of Launcher test assets to support UWL testing. - Continue construction of UWL test facility and continue fabrication/installation of major UWL specialty equipment (outfitting). The facility is being constructed by NAVFAC under 10 USC 2353 authority. - Continue planning activities for UWL testing. - Execute ZUMWALT shakedown and demonstration. - Complete planning and execute Cyber Operational Testing (OT) on ZUMWALT in conjunction with JFC-6. - Continue IAL test activities at China Lake using developmental launcher in preparation for UWL test series.
FY 2027 increase of $127.937 million supports the Underwater Launch Test Facility construction efforts, BELS efforts for ZUMALT and SSN integration risk reduction, and increased scope and cadence of flight testing, including the first CPS launch from a Navy platform.
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.
- Complete development of the Box Launcher Test Asset based on learning from completed testing on the path to JFC-5 execution. - Continued test planning and reviews for JFC-5 flight test. In advance of the test event, the T&E program completed test requirements analysis phase, and has commenced initial and detailed planning phases, leading to an execution readiness review and finally a mission readiness review to ensure aspects of the test are ready to support commencing test count down. - Commenced test planning and reviews for JFC-6 series. In advance of the test event, the T&E program will begin the test requirements analysis phase, followed by initial and detailed planning phases, an execution readiness review, and finally a mission readiness review to ensure aspects of the test are ready to support commencing test count down. - Completed and approved program TEMP. - Completed the IM/HC test execution (execution and analysis) for the 40' vertical drop. - Commenced Shock Test Planning (Grade B for the deployed elements of the CPS WS). - Completed required Navy safety testing and analysis to support initial Navy fielding inclusive of E3 testing. - Executed warhead live fire testing for maturation and certification of lethality models supporting CPS fielding to Army and Navy platforms. - Commenced procurement of Launcher test assets to support UWL testing. - Continued construction of UWL test facility and continued fabrication/installation of major UWL specialty equipment (outfitting). The facility is being constructed by NAVFAC under 10 USC 2353 authority. - Continued planning activities for UWL testing. - Continued planning activities for ZUMWALT shakedown and demonstration. - Commenced planning for Cyber Operational Testing (OT) on ZUMWALT in conjunction with JFC-6. - Commenced IAL test activities at China Lake using developmental launcher in preparation for UWL test series. - Completed BELS 3 IAL test series of the KPX Valve, KPC Canister Spiral 4 Pads, updated Canister Closure Assembly (CCA) design, and Flight Termination System CONOPS in order to buy down risk for JFC-5 and JFC-6 flight tests.
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 | 139.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 101.6 |
| FY2027 | Request | 229.6 |
This activity is 17% of project 3334's FY2027 request and 17% of PE 0605518N'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.
6 activities in project 3334
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.