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.
Chemical Sciences: Will explore polymer synthesis approaches for multi-dimensional architectures; identify novel material coatings for protective materials. Energy Sciences: Will examine the hydrocarbon conversion for more reliable, portable power sources; investigate ion conduction for higher energy density batteries. Mechanical Sciences: Will explore new algorithms for complex fluid dynamics; investigate material diagnostic tools for characterization in turbulent conditions; validate mathematical and physical models for high-speed aerodynamic applications.
This is not a new start effort. FY 2027 funding reflects the consolidation of other ongoing efforts within this project from Basic Research in Chemical Sciences, Basic Research in Energy Sciences, and Basic Research in Mechanical Sciences to support the creation of Mechanical 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 | 13.7 |
This activity is 21% of project AA3's FY2027 request and 6.4% 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.