What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project XW9 of PE 0606002A. 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.
Contractor personnel will continue to provide technical support (test planning, instrumentation operations and maintenance, systems engineering, flight safety, and launch ordnance) to assure the capability of the Range to support test and space missions.
FY27 funding increase is to support the replacement of one of two KREMS RADAR cooling systems which prevent critical range sensor failure.
FY2025–FY2026: what came before
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.
Contractor personnel will continue to provide technical support (test planning, instrumentation operations and maintenance, systems engineering, flight safety, and launch ordnance) to assure the capability of the Range to support test and space missions. Contractor will also begin working the KREMS cooling system replacement.
Contractor personnel will continue to provide technical support (test planning, instrumentation operations and maintenance, systems engineering, flight safety, and launch ordnance) to assure the capability of the Range to support test and space missions.
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 | 36.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 40.6 |
| FY2027 | Request | 53.5 |
This activity is 45% of project XW9's FY2027 request and 45% of PE 0606002A'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.
11 activities in project XW9
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 program-element page.