What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 657106 of PE 1206440SF. 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.
Finalize work on the FORGE Command and Control (FC2) prototype to integrate Mission Management, Ground Resource Control Management, and user interface software. Develop and integrate Next Generation GEO (NGG) and legacy SBIRS Mission Unique Software (MUS) and Mission Unique Applications (MUA) in FY 2027.
The budget for this activity increases in FY2027 due to a significant expansion in development and integration efforts. The funding for FY2027 is required for the full development and integration of the Next Generation GEO (NGG) and legacy SBIRS Mission Unique Software (MUS) and Mission Unique Applications (MUA) into the FORGE baseline.
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.
Continue work on the FORGE Command and Control (FC2) prototype to integrate the Mission Management, Ground Resource Control Management, and user interface software. Depending on the maturity of the prototype and performance of the contractor there is an option to develop and integrate legacy Space-Based InfraRed system (SBIRS) Mission Unique Software (MUS) in FY 2026.
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 | 57.7 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 43.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 97.7 |
This activity is 15% of project 657106's FY2027 request and 13% of PE 1206440SF'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.
5 activities in project 657106
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.