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.
Maintaining capability while modernizing and accelerating engineering innovation to the Ranges and Spaceports. Adopt modern systems, infrastructure, platforms, and processes to increasingly rely on Cloud-based infrastructure with Cloud-native data governance regimes to sustain future operational data needs. Facilitating the shift of commercial launch customers to AFSS systems and the continued shift for government launch customers away from the FTS system towards AFSS configuration. Continue efforts to analyze, engineer, and prototype SOTF envisioned agility and resiliency through a Digital Transformation strategy while upgrading rapid data delivery for decision-support in an increasingly contested operational environment. Transforming Range resiliency and launch customer responsiveness with data and AI-enabled predictive modeling for real-time decision support. Development teams and digital support services will facilitate prototypes and data-driven test applications to accelerate delivery of capabilities to range users. Progress against goals such as agile Range situational awareness and LTRS equipment automation to facilitate rapid range reconfiguration and continued expansion of capability to conduct simultaneous launch operations. Harness proven LTRS CI/CD pipeline and established Dev/Sec/Ops approach for deploying LTRS system applications and transitioning legacy data transport for accelerated analysis and mission support. Implement system resiliency and situational awareness necessary to operate in a contested space and cyber domains, while improving operational efficacy through customer-responsive iteration, testing, prototyping, and releases throughout increased operational use. Activities include, but are not limited to, program office strategy advisement on advanced technology adoption, studies, technical analyses, experimentation, prototyping, etc. Decision-support delivered to senior leaders for progress against SOTF objectives.
A minor decrease in funds from FY 2026 to FY 2027 still enables the integration of sensor edge data and range system data to meet current technology demands via a hybrid cloud environment with AI-enabled data handling capabilities, ensuring secure data handling and transmission for spacelift mission support.
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.
Provide engineering and integration support to both sustainment and development projects aimed at increasing spaceport capacity, responsiveness and agility including the Delta-V SWP, data transport and handling improvements, and sensor edge modernization. Adopt modern systems, infrastructure, platforms, and processes to increasingly rely on Cloud-based infrastructure with Cloud-native data governance regimes to sustain future operational data needs. Facilitating the shift of commercial launch customers to AFSS systems and the continued shift for government launch customers away from the FTS system towards AFSS configuration. Continue efforts to analyze, engineer, and prototype SOTF envisioned agility and resiliency through a Digital Transformation strategy while upgrading rapid data delivery for decision-support in an increasingly contested operational environment. Transforming Range resiliency and launch customer responsiveness with data and predictive modeling for real-time decision support. Development teams and digital support services will facilitate prototypes and data-driven test applications to accelerate delivery of capabilities to range users. Progress against goals such as agile Range situational awareness and LTRS equipment automation to facilitate rapid range reconfiguration and continued expansion of capability to conduct simultaneous launch operations. Harness proven Delta-V SWP Dev/Sec/Ops approach for deploying LTRS system applications and transitioning legacy data transport for accelerated analysis and mission support. Implement system resiliency and situational awareness necessary to operate in a contested space and cyber domain, while improving operational efficacy through testing and prototyping throughout increased operational use. Activities include, but are not limited to, project support, program office strategy advisement on advanced technology adoption, studies, technical analyses, experimentation, prototyping, etc. Decision-support delivered to senior leaders for progress against SOTF objectives.
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 | 8.2 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 28.4 |
| FY2027 | Request | 20.8 |
This activity is 37% of project 674137's FY2027 request and 37% 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.