What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project D615 of PE 1160403BB. 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.
Continues FLRAA SO-p MEP engineering, integration, and demonstration necessary to support advanced avionics, advanced mission equipment, RFCM, TF/TA Sensor, EOIR sensor, and into the Army baseline design through digital integration with Digital Backbone. Completes software development to support SO-p MOSA and MBSE. Delivers and integrates software into System Integration Laboratory. Continues development of a SIL and integration of SOF mission equipment into the SOF FLRAA prototype digital backbone.
Decrease of $6.035 million is due to completion of initial high-dollar, long-lead related hardware purchases for Systems in the Loop lab build.
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 development of a System Integration Laboratory (SIL) and integration of SOF mission equipment into the SOF FLRAA prototype digital backbone. Continue FLRAA SO-p engineering, integration, and demonstration necessary to support advanced avionics, advanced mission equipment, Radio Frequency Counter Measure (RFCM), Terrain Following / Terrain Avoidance (TF/TA) Sensor, Electro-Optical Infrared Sensor (EOIR), and into the Army baseline design through digital integration with Digital Backbone. Continue software development and integration with the FLRAA Digital Backbone for select SOF-p sensors and weapons. Continue to incorporate modeling-based system engineering (MBSE) disciplines and expertise to enable quicker and more reliable SO-p MEP integration while providing future cost avoidance. Continue interoperability of modular open system approach (MOSA) based capabilities to enduring fleet for testing of SO-p MEP.
Continue FLRAA SOF-p mission equipment package (MEP) engineering, integration, and demonstration necessary to support advanced avionics, advanced mission equipment, RFCM, TF/TA Sensor, Electro-Optical/ IR Radar, and LE into the Army baseline design by specifically designing space, weight and structure provisions to meet end-user requirements. Continues MOSA analysis into a common cockpit with Digital Backbone integrating SOF-p mission equipment and initiates software development for select SOF- p sensors and weapons. Develops interoperability of MOSA based capabilities to enduring fleet for testing of SOF-p mission equipment packages.
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 | 7.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 25.2 |
| FY2027 | Request | 19.2 |
This activity is 35% of project D615's FY2027 request and 8.8% of PE 1160403BB'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.
6 activities in project D615
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.