The FY2027 President's Budget requests $2.15B for Basic Energy Sciences, within Energy's Non-Defense (Non-050) account. That is down 15% on the FY2026 figure of $2.53B, which is the enacted appropriation.
FY2025–FY2027
| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | enacted | $2,588.3M |
| FY2026 | enacted | $2,528.5M |
| FY2027 | request | $2,146.1M |
Bases are separate columns and are never summed into one figure.
Energy discretionary budget authority
From the OMB Public Budget Database — clean, summable, and the figure to cite for an agency total. It is the whole of Energy's discretionary request, not a total of the parsed lines above, and this page never adds the two together.
What this funds
Supports fundamental research to understand, predict, and control matter and energy at the atomic and molecular scale, and stewards world-class scientific user facilities that enable innovations in energy, quantum information, microelectronics, and materials.
Extracted from Energy Programs, p. 17. Verbatim; nothing here is paraphrased.
Contracts funded by this line
3 linked contracts. These are obligations — lifetime awarded money — and they are not comparable to the request above and are never added to it. No total is shown: an award linked to several lines is counted in full on each, so the sum would not be a fact.
| Contract | Vendor | Confidence | Obligated |
|---|---|---|---|
| 91990019F0025 last action FY2026 | WESTAT, INC. | Medium confidence | $42.0M |
| F1962891C0145 last action FY1999 | SPECTRAL SCIENCES, INC | Medium confidence | $1.4M |
| 70RWMD21F00000031 last action FY2024 | NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES | Medium confidence | $0.2M |
Confidence mix · 3 medium
Linked contracts are a floor, not a census. Coverage is bounded by how distinctively a program is named and, for performer links, to RDT&E and Procurement — O&M and military construction publish no performers. Budget figures are FY2027 request dollars; contract figures are obligations. The two measure different things and must never be summed together.
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