R-2A Activity · President's Budget PB2027

Global Broadcast Service (GBS)

Activity a0·Project 657104 — MILSATCOM Space Modernization Initiative (SMI)·PE 1206431SF·U.S. Space Force
FY2027 Request
$10.2M
▼ 25% vs FY2026
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This activity requests $10.2M in FY2027, 100% of project 657104, down 25% on FY2026. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2026–FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

FY2027 Request
$10.2M
▼ 25% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$13.6M
▲ 1286% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$1.0M
Prior year
Planned work

What the FY2027 request buys

Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 657104 of PE 1206431SF. 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.

FY2027 planned work

Funds will provide for continued PTW SFF design and Critical Design Review, deliver Engineering Development Models for testing and certification, conducting Production Readiness Reviews, End Cryptographic Unit procurements, and transportable Receive Suite integration.

FY2026 to FY2027 change

FY 2027 funding decreased due to removal of GBS Small Form Factor excess funding

Before the request year

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.

FY2026 plans — current year

Conduct SFF Critical Design Review, finalize and complete prototype of SFF TRANSEC modems to meet the Command, Control, and Communications Leadership Board (C3LB) mandate requiring the use of PTW/TRANSEC. Conduct Production Readiness Reviews. Deliver initial Engineering Development Models for Testing and Certification. 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.

Money

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.

01.0FY25ACTUAL13.6FY26ENACTED10.2FY27REQUEST
Actual Enacted Request
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual1.0
FY2026Enacted13.6
FY2027Request10.2

This activity is 100% of project 657104's FY2027 request and 100% of PE 1206431SF'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.

Where this sits

1 activity in project 657104

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.

Global Broadcast Service (GBS) — this activity$10.2M ▼ 25%
Source
FY2027 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification · Exhibit R-2A · PE 1206431SF, project 657104 (President's Budget PB2027). Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, never on an activity.
Machine access
Markdown twin /programs/1206431SF/657104/a0.md · MCP mcp.hitchintel.combudget_get_activity