What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 6506TE of PE 0701212F. 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 of developing air adapter groups (AAG) that will allow the 18 platforms currently utilizing CAPRE legacy to transition over to utilizing CAPRE SMLV system. Block 2 Porting Continued (F-15) Block 5 Porting (CV-22) Award of contract for complex F-16 AAGs via the Automatic Test Systems Acquisition (ATSA) Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Multi-Award Contract (MAC) June 2026. To accelerate our modernization efforts, we've launched the ATSA-I contract. This is a 10-year, 980 million IDIQ vehicle designed to be rapid and flexible. Its key benefits are reducing award timelines by at least three months, increasing competition, and lowering the administrative burden. This is our primary tool for getting modern test capabilities into the hands of the warfighter, faster.
FY26 to FY27 decrease is due to the completion of the porting of the most complex air adapter groups (AAGs) for the F-16 platform via ATS's 10-year $980M Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery-Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contracting vehicle.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
Continue of developing air adapter groups (AAG) that will allow the 18 platforms currently utilizing CAPRE legacy to transition over to utilizing CAPRE SMLV system. Block 3 Porting (HH-60, MH-139) Block 4 Porting (B-1,B-2, KC-46) Contract for F-16 AAGs (Year 1)
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 14.5 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 15.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 12.2 |
This activity is 77% of project 6506TE's FY2027 request and 77% of PE 0701212F'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 6506TE
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.