What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 2578 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 digital integration and live fire events to confirm MRIC system performance post baseline merge for Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar (G/ATOR) and Common Aviation Command and Control System (CAC2S). -Initiates the purchase of test assets, test planning, and testing such as basic safety series, Hazards of Electromagnetic Radiation to Ordnance (HERO), Electrostatic Discharge (ESD), and live fire in support of domestically produced missiles.
Increase due to procurement of test assets and initiation of test planning, and testing such as basic safety series, Hazards of Electromagnetic Radiation to Ordnance (HERO), Electrostatic Discharge (ESD), and live fire in support of domestically produced missiles.
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.
-Initiated integration testing of Engineering Change Proposals (ECPs) required as technology advances and the prototype system is deployed. -Initiated testing of prototype improvements such as launcher mobility/transportability hardening, missile magazine loader/reloader and materiel solutions for ammunition handling at the tactical unit as well as power generation and distribution improvements.
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 | 2.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 5.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 12.4 |
This activity is 57% of project 2578's FY2027 request and 9.3% 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.
3 activities in project 2578
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.