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 testing of a new Electronic Warfare (EW) solution to include evaluation and assessment of placement, obstructions, cabling, grounding, and bonding. -Initiates the testing of hardware/software upgrades and added capabilities that increase overall system survivability through resilient scalable architecture. -Initiates testing of multi-mode programmable ammunition for the 30MM cannon to maintain schedule alignment with the Army. -Initiates test and evaluation for the High Power Microwave solution. -Initiates test and evaluation of enhanced Optic and Radar for increase detection range and autonomous tracking to meet the emerging threat gaps existing in the current baseline.
FY 2026 to FY 2027 increase funds critical test and evaluation across a suite of advanced capabilities, including Electronic Warfare (EW), Resilient Scalable Architecture, Multi-Mode Programmable Ammunition (MMPA), High-Power Microwave (HPM), and enhanced sensors. This testing is essential to validate system performance, ensure survivability, and confirm lethality improvements against emerging threats, ensuring these integrated solutions are operationally effective and ready for deployment.
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.
-Continues testing of the MADIS Gunnery Training System -Initiates integration testing of ECP components to increase system performance as technology improves and the UAS threat environment evolves. -Initiates testing of improved system communication architecture which increases distributed operations capability and mission flexibility. -Initiates testing of the System Integration Lab components required to independently verify software cyber requirements, and development of ECPs.
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 | 3.2 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 1.1 |
| FY2027 | Request | 15.8 |
This activity is 14% of project 2278's FY2027 request and 12% 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.