What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project DM2 of PE 0606118A. 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.
Support developmental testing with LTAMDS, IFPC, Sentinel A4, RIG-360 and ALPS in support of IFTC 27. IFTC 27 will support fielding of the Guam Defense System capability including all PEO MS Guam components (IBCS, LTAMDS, Patriot & IFPC Inc. 2 interceptors, Sentinel A4, RIG-360, ALPS) both at WSMR and in a littoral environment for over the water testing. Activities include OCONUS testing (shipping, range infrastructure requirements, TDY, range execution personnel), complex testing scenarios, and implementation of a robust flight test matrix with Developmental Test as risk reduction, pre-Flight Lab Work for pre-mission analysis, post flight analysis, Joint external test participants and range safety data packages. This effort crosses multiple components within the architecture, to include THAAD, ensuring an integrated fires operational capability. Testing will be conducted against the GDS threat set including particular targets for that littoral area of operations. Specific test efforts include software development testing, component integration testing, software requirements verification, system of systems capability validation and test articles to support other component testing and requirements verification. Continue to participate in Joint events to include Orange Flag, Project Convergence, Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2). Funding also includes test hardware to integrate 1-N capabilities. SoS updates to the architecture and verification testing with complex targets.
FY 2027 funding increase supports IFTC 27 activities as well as SoS updates to the architecture and verification testing with complex targets.
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.
Support developmental testing with LTAMDS, IFPC, Sentinel A4, RIG-360 and ALPS in support of IFTC 26. IFTC 26 will support fielding of the Guam Defense System capability including all PEO MS Guam components (IBCS, LTAMDS, Patriot & IFPC Inc. 2 interceptors, Sentinel A4, RIG-360, ALPS) both at WSMR and in a littoral environment for over the water testing. Activities include OCONUS testing (shipping, range infrastructure requirements, TDY, range execution personnel), complex testing scenarios, and implementation of a robust flight test matrix with Developmental Test as risk reduction, pre-Flight Lab Work for pre-mission analysis, post flight analysis, Joint external test participants and range safety data packages. This effort crosses multiple components within the architecture ensuring an integrated fires operational capability. Testing will be conducted against the GDS threat set including particular targets for that littoral area of operations. Specific test efforts include software development testing, component integration testing, software requirements verification, system of systems capability validation and test articles to support other component testing and requirements verification. Continue to participate in Joint events to include Orange Flag, Project Convergence, Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2). Funding also includes test hardware to integrate 1-N capabilities.
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) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | Enacted | 96.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 110.4 |
This activity is 17% of project DM2's FY2027 request and 17% of PE 0606118A'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.
4 activities in project DM2
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.