What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project SF100 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 development and integration of enhanced AESA Radar capabilities, includes hardware and software development.
Increase of $5.878 million is required to integrate AESA radar capabilities into the PSP. Includes software and hardware development to incorporate the AESA functionality into the Battle Management System and other associated AC-130J systems.
FY2025–FY2026: what came before
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
Continue engineering analysis and development for Alternative Domestic Source for AC-130J Infrared Suppression System. Continues development and integration for AESA Radar. Completes developmental test and evaluation for Mission Optimization Modifications.
Completed engineering analysis and development for Mission Optimization Modifications, previously referred to Crew Optimization efforts. The Mission Optimization Modifications are a result of focus to reduce crew cognitive burden and ease workload, rather than simply reducing crew workload. Initiates development and integration of Active Electronic Scanned Array (AESA) RADARs and continues development of AC-130J Alternative Domestic Source for Infrared Suppression System. Begin developmental test and evaluation for Mission Optimization Modifications and AESA RADAR integration.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 14.2 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 5.8 |
| FY2027 | Request | 11.7 |
This activity is 9.3% of project SF100's FY2027 request and 5.4% 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 SF100
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.