What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 673945 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.
FY 2027 efforts will focus on scaling and accelerating the expansion of classified cloud and networking infrastructure to support secure data transport in alignment with projected threat timelines. This includes building upon the existing pathfinder implementation to connect disparate classified space capabilities into integrated, resilient data transport network. ION will continue to support the terrestrial network, advancing the integration of a secure, reliable, multi-classification transport layer. This includes the incorporation of Command and Control (C2) nodes into the existing classified kill web, directly enhancing the National Space Test and Training Complex (NSTTC). These improvements will increase classified communication resiliency, align development activities, and expand opportunities for advanced training and testing- leveraging test and training data sources into UDL to strengthen USSF's ability to protect and defend high-priority space missions. ION enables rapid response capabilities by enhancing system resiliency and situational awareness—key to operating in a contested space domain. Planned activities may include, but are not limited to program office support, studies, technical analysis, experimentation, risk reduction, and prototyping. Efforts 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 ION funds transferring into this new Program Element 1203156SF, Project 673945 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 | 34.8 |
This activity is 100% of project 673945's FY2027 request and 21% 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 673945
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.