What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 641234 of PE 1206415F. 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.
Expand capabilities in: - Baseline software, tools, models, and data at the mission- and campaign-level to inform senior leaders evolving inquiries and decisions on space investments, requirements, acquisition, operational COAs, operational risk, and future planning; Baseline front-end campaign-level and mission-level M&S software and tools supporting sufficiently accurate and very timely exploratory analytics to optimize operational planning, wargaming, and concepts; Leverage model-based analysis of current and future space-based effects to effect technology demonstrations and rapid operational prototyping opportunities; Capitalize on Industry Innovations to Develop future technical capabilities via Accelerator/Incubator collaboration, derived from risk-reduction modeling of space effects; In coordination with USSF/S9, continue assessing and integrating enterprise-level model data for MW, ISR, and SATCOM capabilities into campaign-level modeling; Support cost benefit analyses of space Control activities with quantifiable impacts to warfighter operations.
Funding increased due to increase in requirements.
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.
Baseline development of software and tools to model contested space - Baseline software, tools, models, and data at the mission- and campaign-level to inform senior leaders evolving inquiries and decisions on space investments, requirements, acquisition, operational COAs, operational risk, and future planning; Baseline front-end campaign-level and mission-level M&S software and tools supporting sufficiently accurate and very timely exploratory analytics to optimize operational planning, wargaming, and concepts; Leverage model-based analysis of current and future space-based effects to effect technology demonstrations and rapid operational prototyping opportunities; Capitalize on Industry Innovations to Develop future technical capabilities via Accelerator/Incubator collaboration, derived from risk-reduction modeling of space effects; In coordination with USSF/S9, continue assessing and integrating enterprise-level model data for MW, ISR, and SATCOM capabilities into campaign-level modeling; Support cost benefit analyses of space Control activities with quantifiable impacts to warfighter operations.
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 | 6.1 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 11.8 |
| FY2027 | Request | 12.0 |
This activity is 35% of project 641234's FY2027 request and 35% of PE 1206415F'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.
7 activities in project 641234
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.