What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project E25 of PE 0708045A. 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 supporting AMD capabilities focused on the affordability and producibility of DE systems, cannon tube production optimization, improving cold-plate brazing for high-power radar systems, and additive manufacturing processes for high-power radar systems, munitions, and scramjet components. Initiate efforts to reduce cost and improve producibility, yield, and performance of gallium nitride (GaN) transceiver circuit cards, as well as fully automate proximity module production to increase throughput.
The increase in funding reflects the acceleration of DE system integration, cannon tube production optimization, full automation of proximity module production, improving cold-plate brazing for high-power radar systems, additive manufacturing production efforts for munitions and scramjet components, and improving the producibility of GaN transceiver circuit cards.
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.
Continue developing and advancing manufacturing processes for weapon systems to include long-range precision fires, resulting in the affordability and producibility of advanced energetics, warheads, propulsion, guidance and navigation technology. Continue supporting air and missile defense (AMD) capabilities focused on the affordability and producibility of Directed Energy (DE) systems, advanced missiles and seekers, guidance and control, advanced aero structures / propulsion, air defense radar technologies, short-range air defense, long-range munitions, and indirect fire protection capability. Integrated plans are in place for multi-platform cannon tube production optimization meeting PEO GCS's cost, capacity, and fielding goals. Automate high-power interconnects and continue improving cold-plate brazing for high-power radar systems and additive manufacturing processes for high-power radar systems, munitions, and scramjet components.
Program plans will continue to develop and advance manufacturing processes for weapon systems to include long range precision fires resulting in the affordability and producibility of advanced energetics, warheads, propulsion, guidance and navigation technology. Additionally, effort will support air and missile defense capabilities focused on the affordability and producibility of directed energy systems, advanced missiles and seekers, guidance and control, advanced aero structures / propulsion, air defense radar technologies, high energy laser weapons systems, short range air defense, long range munitions, and indirect fire protection capability. Integrated plans are in place for multi-platform cannon tube production optimization meeting program executive office ground combat system's cost, capacity, and fielding goals. Initiate efforts focusing on producibility of high power radar components to support Army acquisition performance and cost goals.
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 | 20.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 16.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 23.5 |
This activity is 34% of project E25's FY2027 request and 34% of PE 0708045A'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.
5 activities in project E25
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 project page.