# Program Direction - Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation

**Agency:** Energy  
**Account:** Non-Defense (Non-050)  
**Source document:** Energy Programs · p. 17  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/budget/energy/program-direction-critical-minerals-and-energy-innovation  

> **Trust:** parsed from the agency Congressional Justification. Approximate, **not summable**, verify at the cited page.

## Funding ($M)

| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FY2025 | enacted | 223.0 |
| FY2026 | enacted | 224.0 |
| FY2027 | request | 151.7 |

## Energy discretionary budget authority (OMB PBDB — authoritative)

FY2027 $36.30B, FY2026 $58.20B. This is the agency total, not a sum of the parsed lines.


## What this funds

Funds the CMEI federal workforce and support for program and project management, oversight, contract administration, and data and IT systems that enable the office's critical minerals and energy innovation research.


**Where it sits:** Civilian / Non-Defense › Energy › Energy Programs › Non-Defense (Non-050) › Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation (CMEI)


*HitchAI is an independent intelligence service, not affiliated with the U.S. government. Civilian line dollars are parsed from agency Congressional Justifications and are approximate.*