What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 3206 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.
1) Enterprise Testing and Planning: a) Test planning necessary to conduct testing of the SSDS BL 12 CS variants in support of TEMP 1910 planned events. b) Continue to provide overall technical management and financial execution support for the T&E Enterprise. Provide aircraft services coordination, technical documentation support, and meeting coordination. 2) Self-Defense Test Ship (SDTS) Combat Systems. Continue routine combat systems maintenance and IA/Cybersecurity Certification and Accreditation on combat system elements and the remote-control system on the SDTS. If repair parts are required to support T&E event(s), the impacted T&E User may be required to fund replacement parts. 3) Enterprise Testbed (ETB). a) Continue integration testing of ESSM Blk 1, ESSM Blk 2, RAM, and CIWS kill chains for CVN 79. b) Continue ETB virtual range development, documentation of the ETB, and coordination of a multi-organizational team to perform overarching enterprise systems engineering. Management, computing hardware, and infrastructure to support collocated and geographically distributed Testbed baselines. c) Continue to facilitate the integration of systems into the PEO IWS M&S Shared Technical Framework (STF) to allow the most efficient use of the Enterprise Test Bed (ETB). 4) Self Defense Test Ship Integrated Testing (IT) a) Continue execution of the multiyear Self-Defense Test Ship (SDTS) Integrated Test (IT) campaign outlined in TEMP 1910. The SDTS IT campaign progressively tests LPD Flt II, LHA 8, and CVN 79 SSDS CS BL 12 CS performance in an at-sea environment against threat representative Anti-Ship Cruise Missiles in live end-to-end scenarios. FY27 Plans include eight (6) SDTS IT events. Continue execution of the multiyear Self-Defense Test Ship (SDTS) Integrated Test (IT) campaign outlined in TEMP 1910. The SDTS IT campaign progressively tests LPD Flt II, LHA 8, and CVN 79 SSDS CS BL 12 CS performance in an at-sea environment against threat representative Anti-Ship Cruise Missiles in live end-to-end scenarios. FY27 Plans include eight (8) SDTS IT events.
Increase from FY26 to FY27 due to increase in SDTS IT events planned in FY27. Increase from two (2) events planned in FY 26 to six (6) events planned in FY27.
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.
1) Enterprise Testing and Planning: a) Test planning necessary to conduct testing of the SSDS BL 12 CS variants in support of TEMP 1910 planned events. b) Continue to provide overall technical management and financial execution support for the T&E Enterprise. Provide aircraft services coordination, technical documentation support, and meeting coordination. 2) Self-Defense Test Ship (SDTS) Combat Systems. a) Complete installation and checkout (INCO) of combat system and weapon elements on SDTS required for AW SSD testing for CVN 79, LHA 8, and LPD Flight II. INCO includes Ship Self Defense System (SSDS), Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC), GPNTS system, and AN/ SPY-6(V) (EASR). b) Continue routine combat systems maintenance and IA/Cybersecurity Certification and Accreditation on combat system elements and the remote control system on the SDTS. If repair parts are required to support T&E event(s), the impacted T&E User may be required to fund replacement parts. 3) Enterprise Testbed (ETB). a) Begin integration testing of ESSM Blk 1, ESSM Blk 2, RAM, and CIWS kill chains for CVN 79. b) Continue ETB virtual range development, documentation of the ETB, and coordination of a multi-organizational team to perform overarching enterprise systems engineering. Management, computing hardware, and infrastructure to support collocated and geographically distributed Testbed baselines. c) Continue to facilitate the integration of systems into the PEO IWS M&S Shared Technical Framework (STF) to allow the most efficient use of the Enterprise Test Bed (ETB). 4) Self Defense Test Ship Integrated Testing (IT) FY 26 starts execution of the multiyear Self-Defense Test Ship (SDTS) Integrated Test (IT) campaign outlined in TEMP 1910. The SDTS IT campaign progressively tests LPD Flt II, LHA 8, and CVN 79 SSDS CS BL 12 CS performance in an at-sea environment against threat representative Anti-Ship Cruise Missiles in live end-to-end scenarios. FY26 Plans include two (2) SDTS IT events.
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 | 20.7 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 20.6 |
| FY2027 | Request | 41.1 |
This activity is 100% of project 3206's FY2027 request and 24% 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.
1 activity in project 3206
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.