What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 662617 of PE 1206864SF. 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.
Complete STP-H12 integration activities and delivery of payload for pre-launch environmental testing. Begin STP-H13 design and begin integration activities. Complete remanifesting actions and continue STP-5 integration activities. Prepare to begin STPSat-8 integration activities. Continue Oracle-Prime integration activities. Continue planning with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and industry on integration requirements for commercial follow-on space stations to the International Space Station, so that STP can leverage these stations to host DoW Space Experiments Review Board (SERB) experiments; STP-H14 would be the first mission on a commercial station. Initiate planning for the next STP launch opportunity as rideshare. Collaborate on technical analysis and other future missions as required. 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.
FY 2027 increased by $2.196 million due to additional integration activities for STP-H12, STP-H13, Oracle-Prime and emerging launch opportunities for new space experiments.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
Complete STP-H11 integration activities and delivery of payload for pre-launch environmental testing. Conduct STP-H12 design and begin integration activities. Complete space-craft integration and launch readiness for STP-S29A (which includes STPSat-7), STP-S30, STP-5 and K2 Gravitas missions. Being planning and manifesting activities for STPSat-8. Continue to work with Tetra-6 program to finish integration of payload onto the host vehicle. Begin integration activities for Air Force Research Laboratory's cislunar Oracle-Prime mission. Initiate planning for the next Space Test Program (STP) launch opportunity as rideshare. Collaborate on technical analysis and other future missions as required. Rapidly respond to implement system resiliency and situational awareness necessary to operate in the contested space domain. Activities may include, but are not limited to program office support, studies, technical analysis, experimentation, risk reduction, prototyping, and activities that may leverage commercial, U.S. Government partnership, and international opportunities to respond to existing and emerging adversarial threats with speed and agility.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 16.1 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 16.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 18.7 |
This activity is 63% of project 662617's FY2027 request and 63% of PE 1206864SF'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.
3 activities in project 662617
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.