What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 646438 of PE 1206438SF. 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.
Completed software development of release 1.6. Continue research, develop and validate software for enhanced modeling and simulation of regional ionospheric and signal propagation effects to forecast space domain impacts on joint force weapon systems. Integrate model output into weapon system tailored visualizations to improve multi-domain mission planning and execution. Begin development of software release 1.6.1 and 1.6.2. Software release 1.6.1 completes open system interface implementation with introduction of new capabilities and validate results during campaign planning, exercises, and war games. Software release 1.6.2 completes data source redundancy for software that supports Combatant Commanders. Continue to develop, test, and provide training for new or updated tactics, techniques, and procedures enhanced by MASE for operational users. Integrate new traditional and nontraditional data sources into models to improve space warfighting decision processes. Rapidly develop, test, and deploy new system features in response to continuously evolving threats to U.S. forces. 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.
FY 2027 reduction reflects phasing of program into sustainment.
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.
Research, develop and validate software for enhanced modeling and simulation of regional ionospheric and signal propagation effects to forecast space domain impacts on joint force weapon systems. Integrate model output into weapon system tailored visualizations to improve multi-domain mission planning and execution. Complete software development of Major Release 1.5, and begin development of software for Major Release 1.6 of new capabilities and validate results during campaign planning, exercises, and war games. Develop, test, and provide training for new or updated tactics, techniques, and procedures enhanced by MASE for operational users. Integrate new traditional and nontraditional data sources into models to improve space warfighting decision processes. Rapidly develop, test, and deploy new system features in response to continuously evolving threats to U.S. forces. 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.
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 | 25.1 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 24.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 15.7 |
This activity is 100% of project 646438's FY2027 request and 25% of PE 1206438SF'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 646438
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 project page.