What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project AA3 of PE 0601102A. 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.
Computing Sciences: Will explore data fusion for enhanced mobile sensing; investigate hardware-software interfaces for improved computing resilience; analyze reinforcement learning algorithms for autonomous decision-making. Mathematical Sciences: Will analyze algorithms for data fusion and prediction; validate mathematical tools for multi-functional sensing materials. Network Sciences: Will study communal frameworks for increased resilience to stressors; examine network modeling for improved prediction capabilities; explore theory and algorithms for autonomy applications.
This is not a new start effort. FY 2027 funding increase reflects the consolidation of other ongoing efforts within this project from Basic Research in Mathematical Sciences, Basic Research in Computing Sciences, and Basic Research in Network Sciences to support the creation of Computational and Information Sciences. Funding decrease reflects the strategic reallocation of resources to support evolving priorities and objectives.
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) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2027 | Request | 16.9 |
This activity is 26% of project AA3's FY2027 request and 7.9% of PE 0601102A'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.
18 activities in project AA3
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 project page.