What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 0569 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 support of RDT&E Aircraft planned depot maintenance events while funding annual operating and sustainment costs associated with Aviation Depot Level Repairables (AVDLR) and Individual Material Readiness List (IMRL) items associated with test pilot proficiency flights, engine repairs and overhauls, and emergent repairs to RDT&E aircraft. The 2027 base plan supports operations and implementation of Naval Air Enterprise Naval Sustainment Systems in support of fleet aircraft readiness efforts. Depot events include one KC-130T, one P-8A, seven F-18 variant aircraft, five MH-60 helicopters, one TH-57 Helicopter and one NC-37B aircraft.
Budget reduced $1.829M from FY 2026 to FY 2027 to address higher priority OSW requirements.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
Provide support of RDT&E Aircraft planned depot maintenance events while funding annual operating and sustainment costs associated with Aviation Depot Level Repairables (AVDLR) and Individual Material Readiness List (IMRL) items associated with test pilot proficiency flights, engine repairs and overhauls, and emergent repairs to RDT&E aircraft. The 2026 base plan supports operations and implementation of Naval Air Enterprise Naval Sustainment Systems in support of fleet aircraft readiness efforts. Depot events include seven F-18 variant aircraft, five MH-60 helicopters, one C-20 and one UC-12M aircraft.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 50.5 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 51.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 50.1 |
This activity is 97% of project 0569's FY2027 request and 29% 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 0569
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.