What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 660191 of PE 1206759SF. 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.
Evolved Strategic Satellite Communications (ESS): Conduct Developmental & Operational (Integrated) Testing COBRA DANE: Conduct Cyber Test Future Operationally Resilient Ground Evolution (FORGE): Conduct Software Acquisition Pathway & cyber test Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared - Geosynchronous: Conduct IT&E and cyber test Resilient Missile Warning/Missile Track Epoch 1 & 2: Conduct Test for Epoch 1 and cyber and physical penetration test Long Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR): Conduct FOT&E/Sustainment test Upgraded Early Warning Radar (UEWR): Conduct Sustainment test (5 sites) Perimeter Attack and Characterization System (PARCS): Conduct Sustainment test Ground Based Optical Sensor System - Maui: Conduct FOT&E Ground Based Optical Sensor System - Socorro: Conduct FOT&E Ground Based Optical Sensor System - Diego Garcia: Conduct FOT&E Relay Ground Station - Asia: Conduct IOT&E and FOT&E Joint Tactical Ground System: Conduct Sustainment test (all sites) Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability (DARC): Conduct IOT&E and FOT&E (Site 1) Resilient Electro-Optical (REO): Conduct IOT&E RRS-G (including AMTI): Conduct IOT&E Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture Tranche 1-3 (including AMTI): Conduct Operational Assessments IRIS: Conduct IOT&E Quasi-Zenith Satellite System - Hosted Payload (QZSS-HP): Conduct IOT&E Defensive Cyber Operations for Space (DCO-S): Conduct IOT&E Military GPS User Equipment: Conduct IOT&E GPS Next Generation Control Segment: Conduct MOT&E Missile Defense System (MDS): Conduct MOT&E Proliferated Warfighter Satellite Architecture (PWSA) - Tranche 2,3,4: Conduct OT&E Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next-Gen OPIR): Conduct FDE (MCA) Presidential and National Voice Conferencing: Conduct FOT&E Protected Tactical Enterprise Service: Conduct Multi-Service Operational Test and Evaluation (MOT&E) Protected Tactical Satcom: Conduct MOT&E(MTA) Space Based Infrared System: Conduct FOT&E Space Data Network: Support IOT&E SBIRS Survivable Endurable Evolution (S2E2): Conduct FDE Wideband Global SATCOM -11 (WGS-11): Conduct Operational Utility Evaluation (OUE) Conduct other planning and operational testing for new space system programs as the requirement becomes known to USSF
FY 2027 increase of 18.949M will provide technical and administrative support required to execute classified space-related testing, integrated systems end-to-end testing, expanded management requirements to support the programs at Delta and Headquarters (HQ) levels, and evaluate activities intended to prepare Guardians for near-peer competition on timelines directed by the Secretary of the Air Force, and the Chief of Space Operations. The funding increase will also establish USSF Cyber survivability test teams and associated test unit to support the sustained increased USSF weapon system fieldlings
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 FY 25 Activities, namely: Advanced Tracking Launch Analysis System: Conduct IOT&E Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability (DARC): Conduct IOT&E Enhanced Polar System - Recapitalization: Conduct IOT&E Evolved Strategic SATCOM (ESS): Conduct MTA Family of Beyond Line-of-Site Terminals (FAB-T): Conduct IOT&E, Conduct FOT&E Force Element Terminal: Prepare for IOT&E Future Operational Resilient Ground Evolution (FORGE): Conduct MTA GPS IIIF: Conduct early influence Mobile AEHF Terminal: Conduct operations demonstration IRIS: Conduct IOT&E Military GPS User Equipment: Conduct IOT&E GPS Next Generation Control Segment: Conduct MOT&E Missile Defense System (MDS): Conduct MOT&E Proliferated Warfighter Satellite Architecture (PWSA) - Tranche 2,3,4: Conduct OT&E Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next-Gen OPIR): Conduct FDE (MCA) Presidential and National Voice Conferencing: Conduct FOT&E Protected Tactical Satcom: Conduct IOT&E(MTA) Space Based Infrared System: Conduct FOT&E SBIRS Survivable Endurable Evolution (S2E2): Conduct FDE SpaceFence: Plan and design for OT&E Conduct other planning and operational testing for new space system programs as the requirement becomes known to USSF.
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 | 51.6 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 41.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 60.6 |
This activity is 100% of project 660191's FY2027 request and 92% of PE 1206759SF'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 660191
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.