What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project F30 of PE 0605601A. 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.
Funds will support contractor labor costs not billable to the customer. Functions performed will include range operations, automotive test support, radar maintenance, warehousing support, project management, maintenance of support fleet aircraft, recurring/ general maintenance to test facilities and data acquisition support.
Funding increase in FY 2027 is driven by project WD1 (West Desert Test Center, a MRTFB) under PE 0605601A being consolidated within F30.
FY2025–FY2026: what came before
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.
Funds support contractor labor costs not billable to the customer. Functions performed will include range operations, automotive test support, radar maintenance, warehousing support, project management, maintenance of support fleet aircraft, recurring/general maintenance to test facilities and data acquisition support.
Funds support contractor labor costs not billable to the customer. Contract labor will be essential to augment core civilian T&E personnel. Functions performed will include range operations, automotive test support, radar maintenance, warehousing support, project management, maintenance of support fleet aircraft, recurring/general maintenance to test facilities and data acquisition support.
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 | 51.5 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 43.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 71.0 |
This activity is 15% of project F30's FY2027 request and 15% of PE 0605601A'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.
14 activities in project F30
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.