What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 613001 of PE 0601102F. 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.
- Continue exploring all aspects of producing and receiving electromagnetic and electro-optical signals, as well as their propagation through complex media, including adaptive optics and optical imaging. - Continue to investigate aspects of the phenomenology of lasers including non-linear optics and ultra-short pulse laser science. - Continue sophisticated mathematics and algorithm development for extracting information from complex and/or sparse signals.
FY 2027 increased compared to FY 2026 by $0.933 million due to minor programmatic adjustments to the DAF Science and Technology portfolio.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
- Explore all aspects of producing and receiving electromagnetic and electro-optical signals, as well as their propagation through complex media, including adaptive optics and optical imaging. - Investigate aspects of the phenomenology of lasers including non-linear optics and ultra-short pulse laser science. - Conduct sophisticated mathematics and algorithm development for extracting information from complex and/or sparse signals.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 33.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 31.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 32.3 |
This activity is 36% of project 613001's FY2027 request and 11% of PE 0601102F'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.
3 activities in project 613001
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.