What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 0568 of PE 0605863N. 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.
Provide fuel in support of RDT&E Test Pilot readiness for over 200 test pilots and associated aircrew assigned to Naval Test Wing Atlantic and Naval Test Wing Pacific developmental test squadrons (VX-20, HX-21, VX-23, UX-24, and VX-31), the S&T squadron (VXS-1), and the range support and test squadron (VX-30). Fuel is funded to 60% of the requirement based on assessment of FY27 program workload to ensure test pilots remain proficient and to meet OPNAVINST 3710.7 requirements, to ensure flight safety and to reduce the risk of aviation mishaps. Remaining 40% of the requirement is covered under program funded flight test.
The $2.215 million reduction from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is a result of realignment of fuel funding to address increased costs associated with AVDLR and maintenance support.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
Provide fuel in support of RDT&E Test Pilot readiness for over 200 test pilots and associated aircrew assigned to Naval Test Wing Atlantic and Naval Test Wing Pacific developmental test squadrons (VX-20, HX-21, VX-23, UX-24, and VX-31), the S&T squadron (VXS-1), and the range support and test squadron (VX-30). Fuel is funded to 60% of the requirement based on assessment of FY26 program workload to ensure test pilots remain proficient and to meet OPNAVINST 3710.7 requirements, to ensure flight safety and to reduce the risk of aviation mishaps. Remaining 40% of the requirement is covered under program funded flight test.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 21.9 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 20.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 18.0 |
This activity is 40% of project 0568's FY2027 request and 11% of PE 0605863N'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.
2 activities in project 0568
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.