What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 657111 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.
Begin high value Mesh Data Transport and processing upgrades to connect MW assets and enable data distribution. Begin stand up cloud infrastructure to establish central and edge-node compute processing. Start containerizing of missile warning applications to enable globally accessible Missile Warning and Tracking (MWT) mission baseline and geographically-agnostic baseline management. Start cloud proliferation to enable a MWT baseline globally accessible with high availability. Begin technology maturation and risk reduction for S/E-capable communication antenna, mission antenna, and containerized processing capabilities. Begin S/E prototype development: building prototype S/E node with pathway to delivering first operational S/E node.
FY 2027 increased due to new Resilient Ground Architecture efforts beginning in 2027.
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 | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 110.3 |
This activity is 100% of project 657111's FY2027 request and 14% 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.
1 activity in project 657111
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.