What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 0025 of PE 0605611M. 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.
- Complete integration and evaluation of Active Protective System on ACV-P variant. - Complete Programmable Airburst Munition (PABM) Weapon System Explosives Safety Review Board (WSESRB) for ammunition qualification. - Complete integration and evaluation of Counter-Small Unmanned Aerial Systems. - Initiate integration and evaluation of CROWS-Javelin (CROWS-J) on ACV-P variant.
The decrease in Product Development from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is primarily attributed to the completion of the major ACV-R Phase II design and development effort and is also attributed to several multi-year efforts transitioning from higher-cost phases to lower-cost phases of execution. Specifically, the Active Protective System (APS) development and the Programmable Airburst Munition (PABM) qualification efforts have both moved past their initial, resource-intensive stages. While these programs continue in FY 2027, the focus shifts to final testing, data analysis and reporting, which requires a reduced level of funding compared to the prior year.
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 and evaluation of Active Protective System on ACV-P variant. - Initiated Programmable Airburst Munition (PABM) Weapon System Explosives Safety Review Board (WSESRB) for ammunition qualification. - Initiated integration and evaluation of Counter-Small Unmanned Aerial Systems.
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 | 23.9 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 14.6 |
| FY2027 | Request | 10.0 |
This activity is 80% of project 0025's FY2027 request and 80% of PE 0605611M'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.
4 activities in project 0025
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.