R-2A Activity · President's Budget PB2027

Next Generation Tactical Communications (NGTC), Program Number 798

FY2027 Request
$20.6M
▼ 15% vs FY2026
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This activity requests $20.6M in FY2027, 74% of project S725, down 15% on FY2026. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2025–FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

FY2027 Request
$20.6M
▼ 15% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$24.1M
▲ 23% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$19.6M
Prior year
Planned work

What the FY2027 request buys

Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project S725 of PE 1160431BB. 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.

FY2027 planned work

Continues ECPs for the NGHH, NGMP, and HF platform modernization systems into an overarching, predominately government-owned, high frequency capability that provides LPI/D capabilities. Continue Resilient Waveform development. Continue United States Naval Special Warfare Command Unmanned Systems/Autonomous and Remotely Controlled System (NSWUxS/ ARCS).

FY2026 to FY2027 change

Decrease of $3.517 million due to completion of Tactical Inline Network Encryptor (INE), High Throughput Data Device (HTDD), and Mission Ops Engineering Change Proposals. High Throughput Data Device (HTDD) ECP will be completed in FY 2026.

Before the request year

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.

FY2026 plans — current year

Continue ECPs for the NGHH and NGMP, to include development of MUOS to transition from legacy UHF tactical satellite waveforms. Continues High Frequency (HF) platform modernization of two complementary systems into an overarching, predominately government-owned, high frequency capability that provides LPI/D capabilities. Continues Resilient Waveform development. Continues development of High Throughput Data Device, and United States Naval Special Warfare Command Unmanned Systems/Autonomous and Remotely Controlled System (NSWUxS/ ARCS).

FY2025 accomplishments

Continues ECPs for the NGHH and NGMP, to include development of MUOS to transition from legacy UHF tactical satellite waveforms. Continues HF platform modernization of two complementary systems into an overarching, predominately government-owned, high frequency capability that provides LPI/D capabilities. Commences Resilient Waveform development. Development of High Throughput Data Device, and United States Naval Special Warfare Command Unmanned Systems/Autonomous & Remotely Controlled System (NSWUxS/ ARCS).

Money

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.

019.6FY25ACTUAL24.1FY26ENACTED20.6FY27REQUEST
Actual Enacted Request
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual19.6
FY2026Enacted24.1
FY2027Request20.6

This activity is 74% of project S725's FY2027 request and 4.7% of PE 1160431BB'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.

Where this sits

3 activities in project S725

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.

Next Generation Tactical Communications (NGTC), Program Number 798 — this activity$20.6M ▼ 15%
Blue Force Tracking (BFT), Program Number 742$5.9M ▼ 57%
Remote Advise and Assist /Virtual Accompany Kit (RAA/VAK), Program Number 697$1.2M ▲ 3%
Source
FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification · Exhibit R-2A · PE 1160431BB, project S725 (President's Budget PB2027). Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, never on an activity.
Machine access
Markdown twin /programs/1160431BB/S725/a0.md · MCP mcp.hitchintel.combudget_get_activity