What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 624847 of PE 1206601SF. 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.
Continue: -Employment of new fuel and material operating limitations, manufacturing processes, and launch goals including remote launch site analyses and launch pad material measurements. Activities include development of austere launch concepts of operation including validation of fuel/material launch pad interactions factors and scale-up of engine ground testing. -Development and payoff determination of rotating detonation rocket engine technologies including testing that inform a heavyweight rocket engine. Activities include scale up of hardware to flight-weight and progress from ground testing to demonstration. -Technology and material studies supporting rapid launch capabilities including demonstration of mobile modular payload processing operations. Activities include validation of payload processing facility design and verification of developed payload processing concept of operations for rapid launch use cases. Complete: - Development, demonstration, and evaluation of advanced material solutions for high temperature components in rocket propulsion including final facility qualification of multiscale rocket engine test stand. Activities include final activation, calibration, and tuning of new rocket engine test stand.
FY 2027 increased compared to FY 2026 by $0.259 million due to increased component and rocket propellant cost.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
Continue: - Employment of new fuel and material operating limitations, manufacturing processes, and launch goals including remote launch site analyses and launch pad material measurements - Develop, demonstrate, and evaluate advanced material solutions for high temperature components in rocket propulsion including final facility qualification of multiscale rocket engine test stand - Development and payoff determination of rotating detonation rocket engine technologies including testing that inform a heavyweight rocket engine - Technologies and material studies supporting rapid launch capabilities including demonstration of mobile modular payload processing operations
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 11.5 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 14.2 |
| FY2027 | Request | 14.4 |
This activity is 58% of project 624847's FY2027 request and 6.2% of PE 1206601SF'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.
3 activities in project 624847
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.