What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 67A001 of PE 1206772SF. 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.
Will continue development, integration, and deployment of enterprise satellite operations ground segment solution (SatOps) command and control (C2) services for protect and defend missions, including science and technology, prototype, and operational mission partners in advancement of protect and defend activities, leveraging a systems integrator to aid the government in acquiring, designing, testing, and integrating key segments and interfaces. Will continue development and support of antenna networking services, to include the development of ground control automation and antenna scheduling capabilities, to enable mission planning and scheduling for commercial and government antennas. Will continue software integration of cybersecurity, cryptography, and security architectures to mature cloud architecture in support of protect and defend missions. Will continue integration and testing with mission-partner developed unique software to meet end-to-end satellite mission control requirements. Will continue growing infrastructure, network, and data system connectivity to support mission partners to improve resiliency, system diagnostic and characterization capability, ground entry points, data transport architecture, and enabling operational C2 in support of satellite C2 for protect and defend activities. Will continue, with the systems integrator, developing, integrating, testing, and evaluating automation technologies to mature the technical baseline and interface requirements for the system and enhance mission control and engineering management capabilities for protect and defend missions. Will continue software release demos with external agencies' TACO space vehicles to ensure software quality and performance in support of protect and defend missions. Will continue life cycle sustainment activities for R2C2 SatOps C2 services in support of ongoing protect and defend missions.
FY 2027 Satellite Command and Control Services funding increased by $2.405 million due to expanding cyber security efforts and integration support.
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 development, integration, and deployment of enterprise SatOps C2 services for protect and defend missions, including science and technology, prototype, and operational mission partners in advancement of protect and defend activities. Continue deployment of cybersecurity, cryptography, and security architectures to support protect and defend capabilities. Continue integration and testing with mission-partner developed unique software to meet end-to-end satellite mission control requirements. Continue growing infrastructure, network, and data system connectivity to support mission partners to improve resiliency, to include ground entry points and enabling operational C2 in support of satellite C2 for protect and defend activities. Continue maturing cloud architecture in support of protect and defend missions. Continue development of antenna networking services and test assets to enable mission planning and scheduling for commercial and government antennas. Continue risk reduction demos as test assets became available. Begin developing, integrating, testing, and evaluating automation technologies to enhance mission control and engineering management capabilities for protect and defend missions. Support external agencies with test and checkout (TACO) space vehicles to facilitate test and checkout activities to ensure software quality and performance in support of protect and defend missions.
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 | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 48.1 |
| FY2027 | Request | 50.5 |
This activity is 46% of project 67A001's FY2027 request and 46% of PE 1206772SF'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 67A001
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 program-element page.