What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 3239 of PE 0605866N. 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.
- Continue development and integration of a new and increased capability for RTSO OFM and spectrum management design for different Navy and Military Sealift Command ship classes. - Continue research, development, enhancement and refinement of RTSO software cloud architecture, spectrum COP, live data ingest, detection and counter-detection (1-to-1), time slide, and network nodes. - Continue research and development of proof-of-concept capabilities for spectrum mission planning decision aids and intelligent sectoring/cut-outs for radiating systems. - Continue research and development efforts for models to estimate effective Radio Frequency (RF) performance ranges of spectrum dependent systems in the complex electromagnetic environment (one-on-one and multi-on-one effects). - Continue to participate in Limited Objective Experiments (LOEs) to demonstrate incremental capability to Fleet users. - Continue development of a software architecture supporting mission module delivery of Real-Time Spectrum Operations (RTSO) capability on all platforms. - Continue development and integration of RTSO software and outputs with other software applications. - Continue to hold Fleet user engagements on new and enhanced software capabilities to improve usability, functionality, and applicability to user requirements. - Continue development of RTSO software releases, v2.4 and beyond, for afloat Fleet users in a cloud environment, including integration testing, cybersecurity authorization, and completing deployment configurations for all deployment environments. - Validate machine learning and software automation capabilities for increased future integration.
The FY 2026 to FY 2027 decrease ($0.965M) is due to the completion of engineering work to validate current design for at least seven different ship classes.
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.
- Complete engineering work to validate current design for at least seven different ship classes. - Begin development and integration of a new and increased capability for RTSO OFM and spectrum management design for seven different ship classes. - Continue research, development, enhancement and refinement of RTSO software cloud architecture, spectrum COP, live data ingest, detection and counter-detection (1-to-1), time slide, and network nodes. - Continue research and development of proof-of-concept capabilities for spectrum mission planning decision aids and intelligent sectoring/cut-outs for radiating systems. - Continue research and development efforts for models to estimate effective Radio Frequency (RF) performance ranges of spectrum dependent systems in the complex electromagnetic environment (one-on-one and multi-on-one effects). - Continue to participate in Limited Objective Experiments (LOEs) to demonstrate incremental capability to Fleet users. - Continue development of a software architecture supporting mission module delivery of Real-Time Spectrum Operations (RTSO) capability on all platforms. - Continue development and integration of RTSO software and outputs with other software applications. - Continue to hold Fleet user engagements on new and enhanced software capabilities to improve usability, functionality, and applicability to user requirements. - Finalize RTSO v2.3 release to afloat Fleet users in a cloud environment, including integration testing, cybersecurity authorization, and completing deployment configurations for all deployment environments.
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 | 20.5 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 20.2 |
| FY2027 | Request | 19.3 |
This activity is 100% of project 3239's FY2027 request and 90% of PE 0605866N'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 3239
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.