What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 650008 of PE 1206771SF. 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.
We are continuing to prioritize key efforts, including funding the operating baseline and furthering threat sharing initiatives for initial COMSATCOM, SDA, and critical commercial contracts. Our ongoing engagement includes maintaining participation in wargaming and exercises with approximately 15 commercial partners, alongside sustaining the CASR readiness and inspection program and providing relevant incentives. We remain committed to rapidly responding to and implementing the necessary system resiliency and situational awareness required to operate effectively within the contested space domain. This involves consistently leveraging commercial capabilities such as integrating alternate PNT constellations to build a more resilient architecture complementing GPS, demonstrating space superiority operations with on-orbit assets, combining payloads for multi-domain awareness on tactical space assets, and advancing commercial multi-domain awareness and cyber capabilities. Rapidly respond to implement system resiliency and situational awareness necessary to operate in the contested space domain. Activities may include, but are not limited to, program office support, studies, technical analysis, experimentation, risk reduction, prototyping, and activities that may leverage commercial, U.S. Government partnership, and international opportunities to respond to existing and emerging adversarial threats with speed and agility.
FY27 reduced to exclude a 15.921M S8 one-time add for altPNT STRATFIs/TACFIs from and other commercial integration efforts from FY26. FY27 CASR Baseline increased to 10.427M from 7.75M due to increased participation from 10 to 15 commercial companies.
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.
Fund operating baseline as well as threat sharing for initial COMSATCOM, SDA and key commercial contracts; wargaming/exercise participation for approximately 10 commercial participants; CASR readiness and inspection program; and incentives. Rapidly respond to implement system resiliency and situational awareness necessary to operate in the contested space domain. Leverages commercial capabilities to include integrating alternate PNT constellations enabling a more resilient PNT architecture to complement GPS, demonstrating space superiority operations with on-orbit assets, combining payloads for multi-domain aware-ness on tactical space assets, and advancing commercial multi-domain awareness and cyber capabilities. Rapidly respond to implement system resiliency and situational awareness necessary to operate in the contested space domain. Activities may include, but are not limited to program office support, studies, technical analysis, experimentation, risk reduction, prototyping, and activities that may leverage commercial, U.S. Government partnership, and international opportunities to respond to existing and emerging adversarial threats with speed and agility.
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 | 6.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 23.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 10.4 |
This activity is 100% of project 650008's FY2027 request and 44% of PE 1206771SF'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 650008
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.