What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project S875 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.
Completion of initial Federated on-aircraft ARR capability integration. Continues development, demonstration, and test of integration of new and existing systems into a MOSA aligned to the OMS reference architecture for both AC-130J and MC-130J. Continue capability maturation and testing of software services for TFMS and ARR products to improve operations-based software performance. Continues software enhancements for an MC-130J DCM Command and Control capability integrated with ARR software. Continues development and execute initial testing of enhanced threat correlation application. Continues software enhancements for on-board ARR and DCM capabilities for compatibility with the multi-core Next Gen SMP hardware for MC-130J. Continues software DevSecOps to improve avionics interoperability with mission systems for MC-130J. Continues initial buildout of Virtual Software Systems Integration Lab (VSIL) to enable Continuous Development/Continuous Integration (CD/CI) pipeline. Continues initial analysis and architecture development of ITMS capability on AC-130J.
The $2.597 million increase supports enhanced testing efforts and additional resources required to support the initial implementation of federated on-aircraft TFMS and ARR capabilities.
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, demonstration, and test of integration of new and existing systems into a MOSA aligned to the OMS reference architecture for both AC-130J and MC-130J. Continues integration of the Tactical Flight Management System (TFMS) with the MC-130J avionics to support AFSOC-unique aviation operations. Completes federated DCM minimum viable capabilities for MC-130J and continues software enhancements towards integration with TFMS and Auto-Route Replanner (ARR). Continues software enhancements for onboard ARR and DCM capabilities for compatibility with the multi-core Next Gen SMP hardware for MC-130J. Continues capability maturation of software services for TFMS and ARR products to improve operations-based software performance. Continues software DevSecOps to improve avionics interoperability with mission systems for MC-130J. Completes initial integration, development and demonstration of OMS-enabled lethality optimization services on the Precision Strike Package (PSP) for the AC-130J.
Field initial Auto-Route Replanning (ARR) capability for the mission planning training environment and continue development based on operator feedback. Continue demonstration, and test of integration of new and existing systems into a Modular Open Systems Architecture (MOSA) aligned to the Open Mission Systems (OMS) reference architecture for both AC-130J and MC-130J. Integrates existing defensive systems with the prototype mission package for consolidated situational awareness and control to support AFSOC survivability and reduce crew compliment aircraft needs, including completion of data gateway adapters to the defensive systems. Continue integration of the Tactical Flight Management System (TFMS) with the MC-130J avionics to support AFSOC-unique aviation operations. Initial integration of AC-130J unique capabilities with the OMS mission package is performed, with development and demonstration of OMS-enabled lethality optimization services on the Precision Strike Package (PSP) for the AC-130J. Efforts are underway to incorporate digital engineering infrastructure and principles supporting these efforts, including completion of stand-up of an enterprise Integrated Digital Environment (IDE), continued development of a Government System Model, and initial deployment of DevSecOps services focused on a common software service repository.
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 | 60.9 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 14.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 17.5 |
This activity is 100% of project S875's FY2027 request and 8.1% 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.
1 activity in project S875
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.