What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 673944 of PE 1203156SF. 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.
Continue to enhance and expand the meshONE-T network to provide secure, scalable, and reliable communication for mission data transport. Continue deploying nodes, network upgrades, and capabilities in key theaters (INDOPACOM, NORTHCOM,EUCOM, and CENTCOM) to improve kill-chain effectiveness and ground resilience. Finalize the Rapid Deployable capability, including proliferated Low Earth Orbit (pLEO) SATCOM integration. Deliver system enhancements, cybersecurity, data availability, and improve user experience. Incorporate digital engineering and automation to improve service delivery, introduce machine learning for modeling and simulation in Primary, Alternate, Contingency, and Emergency (PACE)/wargaming scenarios, and implement solutions for system resilience and situational awareness in contested environments. Provide pre-operations support to meshONE-T mission partners. 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. 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 increased due to M1T funds transferring into this new Program Element 1203156SF, Project 673944 in FY 2027 to consolidate data transport and networking efforts to provide greater transparency and alignment of common functions. This is not a new start.
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) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2027 | Request | 55.9 |
This activity is 100% of project 673944's FY2027 request and 34% of PE 1203156SF'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 673944
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.