What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 64S444 of PE 1206458SF. 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.
Complete: - Development of customized antennas needed for the most challenging platforms. - Integration and flight test on prioritized aircraft. - Ground and flight tests of various combinations of multi-constellation radios with multi-band antennas. - Inclusion of additional constellation links, integrated into Hybrid SATCOM Terminals, for air and ground platforms. - Networking and interoperability tests with DAF Battle Network - NSA certification of cryptographic unit. Continue: - Development of second-generation antenna for tactical fighter
FY 2027 funding decreased by $188.973 million due to completion of antennas for all key aircraft and completion of modem/antenna testing, while remaining fielding activities will transition to PAE-C3BM.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
Continue: - Development of customized antennas needed for the most challenging platforms. - Integration on initial test platforms. - Ground and flight testing with emerging satellite constellations. - Networking and interoperability tests with DAF Battle Network. - Flight worthiness for initial platforms. Complete: - Integration assessments on all platforms. - Development of prototypes for the Hybrid SATCOM Terminals that can be integrated on air and ground platforms. - Complete flight test of dual-band, LEO-GEO SATCOM on tactical fighter
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 138.1 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 209.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 20.5 |
This activity is 100% of project 64S444's FY2027 request and 8.5% of PE 1206458SF'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 64S444
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.