What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 674137 of PE 1203182SF. 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.
Delta-V will continue to build upon developmental capabilities initiated in prior years such as the Cloud-based Infrastructure, Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) platform, software development and test environments, Zero Trust pilot program and work to mature agile and DevSecOps processes across LTRS. Delta-V will also continue multiple Spaceport agile software projects and prototypes, virtualization of legacy LTRS hardware, development of spaceport data infrastructure including an accessible common data layer and expansion of spaceport situational awareness tools. Delta-V will utilize CI/CD platforms and processes to provide engineering solutions, test, and deliver enhanced operational systems to meet evolving technological requirements and Spaceport of the Future guidance on National launch capacity and cadence requirements. FY27 plans include a Minimum Viable Capability Release for planning launch operations with Launch Service Providers and Minimum Viable Products of Off-Premises IL-6 cloud capability and hybrid cloud offerings to Western Range. 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.
The FY27 funding increased due to increased support for data architecture and optimization.
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.
Delta-V will continue to build upon developmental capabilities initiated in FY25 such as the Cloud-based Infrastructure, Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) platform, SW development and test environments, Zero Trust pilot program, Spaceport agile software projects and prototypes and mature DevSecOps processes and virtualize legacy LTRS hardware. New efforts in FY26 will include initial development of spaceport data infrastructure and expansion of spaceport situational awareness tools. Delta-V will utilize CI/CD platforms and processes to provide engineering solutions, test, and deliver enhanced operational systems to meet evolving technological requirements and Spaceport of the Future guidance on National launch capacity and cadence requirements. Key capability deliveries planned for FY26 include Planning and Scheduling subsystem Enterprise cloud hosted dashboard updates that track and display key metrics related to real-time range asset usage, health and readiness and a Day of Launch operations training environment. The Range Safety subsystem will see the first MVP of a Cloud Platform hosted version of a critical legacy safety capability.
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 | 26.2 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 25.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 36.0 |
This activity is 63% of project 674137's FY2027 request and 63% of PE 1203182SF'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.
3 activities in project 674137
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.