What project 613002 buys
Basic research in the Aerospace, Chemical, and Materials Sciences Project seeks to enable revolutionary advances and expand the fundamental knowledge supporting technologies critical to the future of the Department of the Air Force. Research stresses high-risk, high-reward, game-changing scientific breakthroughs essential for future leaps in warfighter system performance, functionality, reliability, and survivability while simultaneously reducing component and system power, size, mass, and life cycle costs. Research topics include: aero-structure interactions and control; energy, power, and propulsion; complex materials and structures; and cross-disciplinary research reflecting the highly integrated nature of future weapon systems. While the following specific efforts are the focus of the Project there is interest in exploring novel ideas that may bridge these major efforts as well as those in other Projects within 0601102F, Defense Research Sciences.
Project 613002 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 96.4 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 91.1 |
| FY2027 | Request | 83.7 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 86.7 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 99.7 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 103.2 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 105.3 |
3 accomplishments / planned programs
The R-2A exhibit — the only level of the budget that describes work that has not happened yet. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only, no five-year plan. Each describe FY2027 work in enough detail to have their own page; the rest are shown here in full. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
- Continue investigating multifunctional materials and structures composed of different classes of materials, both organic and inorganic, that can adapt to environmental constraints or mission requirements. - Continue to explore hierarchically-designed materials, microsystems, and structures to achieve dynamically functional and…
Read the FY2027 plan →- Continue investigating the characterization, modeling, and exploitation of interactions between the unsteady aerodynamic flow field and the dynamic air vehicle structure to enable enhanced performance in next-generation Department of the Air Force systems. - Continue to explore the synergy gained from an interdisciplinary integration…
Read the FY2027 plan →- Continue exploring scientific advances by integrating core disciplines of combustion, plasma dynamics, chemistry, hydrodynamics, structural dynamics, and multi-fidelity simulations. - Continue to investigate processes associated with the generation, storage, and utilization of energy, specifically for Department of the Air Force…
Read the FY2027 plan →