What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project S800 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.
Continues to develop all Echelons to meet component needs and iterate with the changing technology.
Increase of $8.387 million covers testing for equipment to support precision strike systems.
FY2025–FY2026: what came before
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
Continue development, integration, and testing of Echelon 0 Ground (less than 55 lbs) munition prototypes to achieve suitable technical readiness levels for user evaluation in pursuit of production ready baseline.
Continued to develop selected Echelon 0 Air (less than 55 lbs) VTOL / Direct Attack munition prototypes to achieve suitable technical readiness levels for user evaluation in pursuit of production ready baseline and possible fielding.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 4.7 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 2.4 |
| FY2027 | Request | 10.8 |
This activity is 11% of project S800's FY2027 request and 2.5% 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.
7 activities in project S800
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.