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 procurement of hardware in support of integration of a new Electronic Warfare (EW) solution -Initiates the purchase of hardware in support of development, integration, and testing of the new Loitering High Power Microwave (HPM) solution. -Initiates the purchase of enhanced Optic and Radar for increase detection range and autonomous tracking to meet the emerging threat gaps existing in the current baseline. -Initiates the purchase of hardware/software upgrades and added capabilities that increase overall system survivability through resilient scalable architecture
Increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to the procurement of critical hardware and software that accelerates the development and integration of advanced Electronic Warfare (EW), Loitering High Power Microwave (HPM), and sensor solutions. This is necessary to increase overall system survivability and enhance detection and tracking capabilities to counter emerging threat gaps.
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.
-Initiates purchase of components to increase system performance as technology improves and the UAS threat environment evolves. Components include Position-Navigation-Time (PNT), Laser Designator Optic, and Passive Sensor components. These components improve the fidelity of target data and accuracy for the integrated weapons and increase the kill of UAS threats. -Initiates improvements of systems communication architecture to increase distributed operations capability and mission flexibility. -Initiates Machine Learning product enhancements to improve operator decision making and decrease user fatigue.
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 | 10.7 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 1.4 |
| FY2027 | Request | 18.9 |
This activity is 17% of project 2278's FY2027 request and 14% 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.