What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project NS01 of PE 1203610K. 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.
In FY 2027, the Teleport program will continue critical initiatives begun in FY 2026, focusing on expanding enterprise management and control capabilities and integrating emerging Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellations. This funding will ensure the Teleport system remains at the forefront of satellite communications technology, providing enhanced capabilities and resilience for our warfighters. Enterprise Satellite Management and Control (ESC-MC): This funding will continue the development and experimentation necessary to establish specifications for software-enabled management and control (M&C) capabilities for SATCOM ground infrastructure. This effort aims to minimize manual reconfiguration processes and enable automated status reporting to the ground M&C system. This lays the groundwork for integrating ground M&C systems with the broader Enterprise SATCOM Management and Control (ESC-MC) system, facilitating automated resource allocation and reallocation across all DoW SATCOM Enterprise segments. This increased automation will improve efficiency and responsiveness in managing critical satellite resources. Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Integration : This funding, allocated between the Teleport program ($8M) and the Distributed Data Network (DDN) program ($6M), will upgrade lab facilities and develop solutions to seamlessly integrate commercial Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites into the Defense Information Systems Network (DISN). This integration will enable military users to seamlessly access commercial LEO satellite services through existing defense communication infrastructure, providing increased bandwidth, reduced latency, and enhanced resilience through diversification of satellite resources. This initiative positions the Department to leverage the rapidly evolving commercial LEO market to enhance warfighter communications capabilities.
The decrease of -$2.075 million from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is primarily due to the ability to rely on infrastructure investments and lab facility improvements made in the first year of the program.
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.
Enterprise Satellite Management and Control (ESC-MC): DISA will conduct a detailed analysis to determine the precise requirements for the development of a software-enabled management and control capability for the SATCOM ground infrastructure (ground M&C), reducing the amount of manual reconfigurations and provide for automated status data to be provided to the ground M&C system. This will lay the foundation for interfacing the ground M&C system with ESC-MC, enabling automated resource allocation and reallocation of all segments of the DoW SATCOM Enterprise. Medium Earth Orbit (MEO): DISA will improve the engineering lab facility, equipping it with the necessary infrastructure and equipment to support comprehensive engineering and testing of MEO satellite integration. This will allow DISA to thoroughly evaluate and optimize the integration of MEO capabilities into the DoW SATCOM Enterprise. Additionally, DISA will develop a solution for adapting existing Teleport modems for use with MEO constellations. Low Earth Orbit (LEO): DISA will improve the engineering lab facility, equipping it with the necessary infrastructure and equipment to support comprehensive engineering and testing of LEO satellite integration. DISA’s SATCOM engineers will develop a solution for seamlessly connecting users of commercially provided LEO services within the Defense Information Systems Network (DISN) services.
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 | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 24.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 22.2 |
This activity is 100% of project NS01's FY2027 request and 100% of PE 1203610K'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 NS01
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.