What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 643316 of PE 0606005F. 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.
Efforts will establish seamless connection across commercial tools in LaunchPad to reduce manual efforts, improve efficiency, and add capability across the acquisition lifecycle. LaunchPad 2.0 will continue access to additional data sources across the Department of Air Force (DAF) data ecosystem. This includes developing new data connections beyond High Performance Computing (HPC) and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), establishing seamless access to critical information at the right resources to inform automated workflows. A key focus will be enabling enhanced industry collaboration, removing the requirement for a common access card (CAC), through a rapid deployment capability for temporary instances, providing secure access to real-time models and data for partnered engagements with the DAF. These instances can be efficiently spun down, ensuring data security and minimizing resource consumption. A fully implemented continuous improvement/continuous development (CI/CD) pipeline allow for new software and capabilities, coupled with a flexible framework for self-customized functional specific deployments.
FY 2027 increased compared to FY 2026 by $5.951 million due to planned capability development and increase usage (users, compute and store of data).
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
LaunchPad 2.0 will provide access to commercial software tools at multiple classification levels. The system will provide role-based views and toolsets to enhance user experience, provides seamless integration with existing DAF systems (e.g.LaunchPad 2.0 to AF-Program Lifecycle Management, LaunchPad 2.0 to High Performance Computing Modernization Program), and provides a modular, scalable architecture capable of supporting up to 80,000 users by 2029. Cyber testing, integration testing - penetration testing, Authorization to Operate (ATO) package development, user experience design and testing, and user acceptance testing.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 9.6 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 14.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 20.4 |
This activity is 11% of project 643316's FY2027 request and 11% of PE 0606005F'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.
3 activities in project 643316
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.