What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 625018 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: -University led technical efforts under SSTI 2 for In-Space Operations to include inspection technology, multi-arm manipulator, deployable mesh, developing prototype of highly adaptive robotic grasping technologies as well as CubeSat-based flight, berthing, recharging, and refueling technologies. -University led technical efforts under SSTI 3 for Advanced Space Power and Propulsion. -University led technical efforts under SSTI 4 for Advanced Remote Sensing. -University led technical efforts under SSTI 5 for Cyber Mission Assurance and Data Trust. -Recompete University led technical efforts under SSTI 1 for xGEO and Space Domain Awareness. Commence: -International collaboration designed to bolster domestic SSTI capability delivery through shared resources and expertise.
FY 2027 increased compared to FY 2026 by $2.006 million due to an increase in international collaboration in support of domestic SSTI capability.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
Continue: - University led technical efforts under SSTI 2 for In-Space Operations to include inspection technology, multi-arm manipulator, deployable mesh, developing prototype of highly adaptive robotic grasping technologies as well as CubeSat-based flight, berthing, recharging and refueling technologies. - University led technical efforts under SSTI 3 for Advanced Space Power and Propulsion. - University led technical efforts under SSTI 4 for Advanced Remote Sensing. Complete: - SSTI 1 for Beyond Geostationary Earth Orbit (xGEO) operations and Space Domain awareness, transitioning technologies Commence: - SSTI 5 Cyber Mission Assurance and Data Trust and recompete for the second iteration award of SSTI 1 Beyond Geostationary Earth Orbit (xGEO) Operations and Space Domain Awareness.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 16.4 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 22.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 24.0 |
This activity is 49% of project 625018's FY2027 request and 10% 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.
2 activities in project 625018
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.