What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 674877 of PE 0606018F. 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.
NC3 weapon system integration efforts including, but not limited to: - Continue to implement test and evaluation certification program for NC3 WS - Continue to expand existing communication spectrum and cyber assessment test bed utilizing a phased approach - Continue to perform NC3 physics, communication and networking analysis - Continue to develop and evolve technical framework of the NC3 WS to meet mission threats of 2030 and beyond - Continue to conduct WS analysis, develop WS capability model, plan WS updates, and implement WS updates - Continue to evaluate options for system-of-system performance improvements within constraints of NC3 WS strategic vision and roadmap - Continue to expand capabilities related to analysis, modeling, simulation, visualization and prototyping of emerging NC3 technologies. - Continue to develop and implement AF NC3 WS program and materiel management control processes including risk management, configuration management, change management, supply chain management, maintenance data collection and reporting and NC3 WS health assessment application, integrated scheduling, change management, and budgeting and cost controls, etc. - Continue to expand capabilities supporting NC3 weapon system mission worthiness, cyber and intel health and risk assessments, reporting and issue resolution. - Continue to map out the NC3 WS supply chain and develop supply chain monitoring capability, supply chain supportability, and supply chain risk management - Continue to expand development of digital models across the NC program portfolio to measure and report capability impacts. - Continue to expand digital acquisition processes and methodologies across the NC portfolio of programs - Continue to develop and coordinate Operational Performance Criteria Document (OPCD) to support weapon system configuration element specs, test and evaluation, and assessment of weapon capabilities and limitations - Continue to establish authoritative intelligence community analysis for high-altitude electromagnetic pulse (HEMP) - Continue to improve integration and interoperability of the NC3 WS - Continue to conduct WS risk, issue, and opportunity analysis, and mitigation/corrective action/pursuit plan development - Support the NC3 baseline integration into the Sentinel Weapon System Program, to include new equipment purchases and the transfer of Minuteman III (MMIII) NC3 equipment to the Sentinel Weapon System. - Complete NC3 Airborne Study to meet mission threats of 2030 and beyond.
FY 2026 to FY 2027 decrease due to re-baseline efforts. In addition Looking Glass - Next (PE 0302060F) has moved to a new PE accounting for the reduction from FY26 to 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.
NC3 weapon system integration efforts including, but not limited to: - Continue to implement test and evaluation certification program for NC3 WS - Continue to expand existing communication spectrum and cyber assessment test bed utilizing a phased approach - Continue to perform NC3 physics, communication and networking analysis - Continue to develop and evolve technical framework of the NC3 WS to meet mission threats of 2030 and beyond - Continue to conduct WS analysis, develop WS capability model, plan WS updates, and implement WS updates - Continue to evaluate options for system-of-system performance improvements within constraints of NC3 WS strategic vision and roadmap - Continue to expand capabilities related to analysis, modeling, simulation, visualization and prototyping of emerging NC3 technologies. - Continue to develop and implement AF NC3 WS program and materiel management control processes including risk management, configuration management, change management, supply chain management, maintenance data collection and reporting and NC3 WS health assessment application, integrated scheduling, change management, and budgeting and cost controls, etc. - Continue to expand capabilities supporting NC3 weapon system mission worthiness, cyber and intel health and risk assessments, reporting and issue resolution. - Continue to map out the NC3 WS supply chain and develop supply chain monitoring capability, supply chain supportability, and supply chain risk management - Continue to expand development of digital models across the NC program portfolio to measure and report capability impacts. - Continue to expand digital acquisition processes and methodologies across the NC portfolio of programs - Continue to develop and coordinate Operational Performance Criteria Document (OPCD) to support weapon system configuration element specs, test and evaluation, and assessment of weapon capabilities and limitations - Continue to establish authoritative intelligence community analysis for high-altitude electromagnetic pulse (HEMP) - Continue to improve integration and interoperability of the NC3 WS - Continue to conduct WS risk, issue, and opportunity analysis, and mitigation/corrective action/pursuit plan development - Support the NC3 baseline integration into the Sentinel Weapon System Program, to include new equipment purchases and the transfer of Minuteman III (MMIII) NC3 equipment to the Sentinel Weapon System. - Conduct NC3 Airborne Study to meet mission threats of 2030 and beyond.
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 | 21.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 39.6 |
| FY2027 | Request | 36.5 |
This activity is 100% of project 674877's FY2027 request and 100% of PE 0606018F'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 674877
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.