What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 634868 of PE 1206616SF. 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: - Modernizing the Maui Space Surveillance System (MSSS) research and development (R&D) facilities and experimental equipment to remain in mission-ready state to mature space surveillance technology into combat-relevant capability that contributes to Combat Forces Command (CFC)'s operational mission (focus on effective communication technology for MSSS). - Sustaining and modernizing experimental equipment and networks to support collecting observations of satellites as requested by mission partners. - Operating the regional wide-area-search of the geosynchronous belt in the Pacific Area of Responsibility (AOR) as a certified sensor node contributing to the Space Surveillance Network. - Hosting missions in the Pacific AOR for Department of War components and other government agencies (assist Space Systems Command in evaluation of space surveillance using a multi-aperture optical sensor). - Assisting the Air Force Civil Engineering Center in meeting R&D requirements during construction of the new Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing installation funded under military construction authority. - Installation of the new dome for the 1.2m twin-telescope that will protect the sensor from weather. - Operating the 1.6m telescope for technology development for daytime imaging of space objects as well as surveillance of extremely dim objects Complete: - Installation of the thermal control system to include testing and checkout that ensures precise & stable temperature control of electro-optic cameras attached to the 3.6-meter telescope facility. - Oversight of the environmental impact study for the Small Telescope Advanced Research Site. Commence: - Integration of the thermal-imaging space surveillance sensor.
FY 2027 increased compared to FY 2026 by $9.815 million for completion of the new dome for the 1.6m telescope.
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: - Modernizing the Maui Space Surveillance System (MSSS) research and development (R&D) facilities and experimental equipment to remain in mission-ready state to mature space surveillance technology into combat-relevant capability that contributes to Combat Forces Command (CFC)'s operational mission (continue establishment of the Defense Research & Engineering Network). - Collecting observations of satellites as requested by mission partners (conduct the Kaimana Campaign for the National Space Test & Training Complex). - Operating the regional wide-area-search of the geosynchronous belt in the Pacific Area of Responsibility (AOR) (establish the wide-area search sensor as a data-contributing node in the Space Surveillance Network). - Hosting missions in the Pacific AOR for Department of War components and other government agencies (assist Space Systems Command in evaluation of space surveillance using a passive radio-frequency sensor). - Assisting the Air Force Civil Engineering Center in meeting research & development requirements during construction of the new Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing installation funded under military construction authority. - Overseeing the environmental impact study for the Small Telescope Advanced Research Site. Complete: - Installation of the new dome for the 1.6m telescope that will protect the sensor from weather, and resume this sensor's unique ability to develop technology for daytime imaging of space objects as well as surveillance of extremely dim objects. - Installation of the thermal control system that ensures precise & stable temperature control of electro-optic cameras attached to the 3.6-meter telescope facility. Commence: - Installation of the new dome for the 1.2m twin-telescope that will protect the sensor from weather. - Reconstruction of the thermal-imaging space surveillance sensor.
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 | 19.5 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 31.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 41.1 |
This activity is 100% of project 634868's FY2027 request and 33% of PE 1206616SF'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 634868
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.