# Waterways Management and Environmental Response

**Agency:** Homeland Security  
**Account:** Research and Development  
**Source document:** United States Coast Guard · p. 7  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/budget/homeland-security/waterways-management-and-environmental-response  

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

## Funding ($M)

| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FY2025 | enacted | 0.5 |
| FY2026 | CR annualized | 0.5 |
| FY2027 | request | 0.5 |

The prior-year column is a CR annualized figure, not an enacted appropriation.


## Homeland Security discretionary budget authority (OMB PBDB — authoritative)

FY2027 $91.40B, FY2026 $88.60B. This is the agency total, not a sum of the parsed lines.


## What this funds

This project develops and tests an Aids to Navigation (AToN) system design visualization tool to support AToN modernization under a range of operating scenarios, support search and rescue field experiments, and source research on alternative fuels spill response. Additionally, this investment provides testing of night and low visibility sensors to detect oil spills and support northern border and Arctic region research.


**Where it sits:** Civilian / Non-Defense › Homeland Security › United States Coast Guard › Research and Development › Research and Development


*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.*