What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 673109 of PE 1203109SF. 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.
Conduct and complete the Final Design Review (FDR) for MUOS Space Vehicle (SV) 6 and 7. Continue acquiring long-lead materials for MUOS SV 6 and 7. Conduct Manufacturing Readiness Review for MUOS SV 6. Start production of MUOS SV 6. Retrofit technologies to be interoperable with the Baseline Space MUOS (1-5) system while modernizing satellite functionality to maintain global communications. Continue ground system modernization across all four RAFs, with associated laboratory equipment and associated program office support, through migration to an extensible digital processing architecture. Ground activities include interface testing & verification, and architecture upgrades. Complete installation of D-ETI at Niscemi (Sicily, Italy) RAF. Continue incremental recapitalization of obsolete third generation cellular network equipment at RAFs. Continue architecture updates for network resiliency that include commercial SATCOM augmentation of terrestrial inter-RAF links and replication of critical network management functions in a secure cloud network or alternate site. Rapidly respond to implement system resiliency and situational awareness necessary to operate in the contested space domain. Activities may include, but are not limited to program office support, studies, technical analysis, experimentation, risk reduction, prototyping, and activities that may leverage commercial, U.S. Government partnership, and international opportunities to respond to existing and emerging adversarial threats with speed and agility.
FY 2027 funding increase is driven by the SLE Phase II contract. This increase supports a ramp-up of non-recurring engineering hours in support of the Early Design Review (EDR), Final Design Review (FDR) and production initiation for Space Vehicles (SV) 6 and 7, and secures vital long-lead materials. This funding is critical to maintain the program schedule and achieve the December 2031 operational need date for warfighter capability.
FY2026: the year under way
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.
Award contract to one vendor to complete MUOS SLE satellite final design, production, and integration activities. Begin acquiring long-lead materials for production. Conduct and complete the Early Design Review (EDR) for MUOS Space Vehicle (SV) 6 and 7. Retrofit technologies to be interoperable with the Baseline Space MUOS (1-5) system while modernizing satellite functionality to maintain global communications. Continue ground system modernization across all four RAFs, with associated laboratory equipment and associated program office support, through migration to an extensible digital processing architecture. Ground activities include interface testing & verification, and architecture upgrades. Continue Narrowband Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) follow-on studies. Continue incremental recapitalization of obsolete third generation cellular network equipment at RAFs. Continue architecture updates for network resiliency that include commercial SATCOM augmentation of terrestrial inter-RAF links and replication of critical network management functions in a secure cloud network or alternate site Rapidly respond to implement system resiliency and situational awareness necessary to operate in the contested space domain. Activities may include, but are not limited to program office support, studies, technical analysis, experimentation, risk reduction, prototyping, and activities that may leverage commercial, U.S. Government partnership, and international opportunities to respond to existing and emerging adversarial threats with speed and agility.
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 | 173.1 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 388.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 835.3 |
This activity is 98% of project 673109's FY2027 request and 98% of PE 1203109SF'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.
2 activities in project 673109
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 program-element page.