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.
- Continue to identify and submit technologies for incorporation into the CPS WS that close capability gaps, and improve manufacturability, producibility, and affordability. - Continue to communicate and collaborate with the broader DoD S&T community, industry, and other government partners to identify emerging technologies and develop plans to synchronize investment opportunities where applicable to share costs and avoid duplicative work. - Continue to develop alternate navigation technologies and perform technology demonstrations to improve performance in identified threat environments. Details are available at a higher classification level. - Continue analysis and development of terminal sensor capability in support of prosecuting warfighting priority targets. - Continue to use modeling and simulation analyses to inform technology investment strategy and how the technologies improve CPS capabilities and address gaps in lethality, survivability, and performance envelopes. - Continue experimental testing of advanced capabilities using sounding rockets, experimental hypersonic testing platforms, and Full-Scale Test launches leveraging the Multi-Service Advanced Capabilities for Hypersonics Test Bed (MACH-TB). -Begin preparations to compete the design and production of the TI-27 hypersonic glide body, in coordination with the Strategic Capabilities Office and MACH-XL, through development of an update glide body requirements specification and a more detailed, modular interface specification.
FY 2027 increase of $61.257 million supports efforts to accelerate TI-27 development.
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.
- Continued to identify and submit technologies for incorporation into the CPS WS that close capability gaps, and improve manufacturability, producibility, and affordability. - Continued to communicate and collaborate with the broader DoD S&T community, industry, and other government partners to identify emerging technologies and develop plans to synchronize investment opportunities where applicable to share costs and avoid duplicative work. - Conducted Multi-Service Advanced Capabilities for Hypersonics Test Bed (MACH-TB) testing to mature advanced TPS manufacturing capabilities and operability testing for an advanced capability in transition to the WS. - Continued to develop alternate navigation technologies and perform technology demonstrations to improve performance in identified threat environments. Details are available at a higher classification level. - Continued analysis and development of terminal sensor capability in support of prosecuting warfighting priority targets. Details are available at a higher classification level. - Performed design maturation, prototyping, and testing of warhead improvements to enhance lethality against a broader set of targets. Details available at a higher classification level. - Continued to use modeling and simulation analyses to inform technology investment strategy and how the technologies improve CPS capabilities and address gaps in lethality, survivability, and performance envelopes. - Continued experimental testing of advanced capabilities using sounding rockets, experimental hypersonic testing platforms, and Full-Scale Test launches leveraging the MACH-TB.
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 | 35.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 59.2 |
| FY2027 | Request | 120.4 |
This activity is 9.0% of project 3334's FY2027 request and 9.0% 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.