What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 2278 of PE 0605520M. 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.
-Initiates the integration of a new Electronic Warfare (EW) solution. This solution is required to satisfy non-kinetic defeat requirements and enable ease of new technology insertion and optimization of specific capabilities by fleet users dependent on threat set. -Initiates the development of hardware/software upgrades and added capabilities that increase overall system survivability through resilient scalable architecture (RSA). RSA is required to give commanders more flexibility with how they employ the MADIS, by allowing multiple MK1s to receive data link tracks from a single MK2. -Initiates development of multi-mode programmable ammunition (MMPA) for the 30MM cannon to maintain schedule alignment with the Army. The MMPA is required to provide better proximity ammunition against sUAS and will allow for one ammunition type, easing the need for a dual feed weapon system, and easing the logistical footprint. -Initiates integration of the multi-mode programmable ammunition contact fuze setter into the Remote Weapon Station (RWS) -Initiates the development of Loitering High Power Microwave (HPM) capability that can disrupt and/or destroy circuitry in adversarial UAS. This capability is required as part of a layered defense aimed at minimizing the number of threats that make it into the final protective fires ring.
Increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 due to the initiation of multiple efforts such as development of hardware/software that increase overall system survivability, development of multi-mode programmable ammunition for the 30MM cannon, integration of the multi-mode programmable fuze setter into the RWS as well as integration of a new EW solution. These initiatives collectively enhance lethality, survivability, and operational flexibility through the development and integration of advanced, multi-domain capabilities designed to counter emerging threats and reduce logistical demands.
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.
-Completes MADIS Virtual Training System development; includes software development costs -Continue MADIS Gunnery Training System development; includes software development costs -Initiate integration of the System Integration Labs (SIL) required to independently verify software, cyber requirements, and development of engineering change proposals
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 | 8.8 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 1.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 23.4 |
This activity is 21% of project 2278's FY2027 request and 18% of PE 0605520M'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.
18 activities in project 2278
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.