# Project 613002 — Aerospace, Chemical and Material Sciences

**Program element:** 0601102F — Defense Research Sciences  
**Project:** 613002  
**Component:** U.S. Air Force  
**Appropriation:** 3600 — RDT&E, Air Force  
**Budget Activity:** 1 — Basic Research  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601102F/613002  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601102F

## Summary

Project 613002 — Aerospace, Chemical and Material Sciences requests $83.7M in FY2027, 28% of the $296.5M requested for program element 0601102F, down 8.1% on FY2026. 3 R-2A activities decompose the request.

## Funding profile

| 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 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0601102F; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## 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.

## Activities (R-2A) — 3

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Complex Materials and Structures | 35.8 | 33.8 | 31.1 | −8% | [a2](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601102F/613002/a2) |
| Aero-Structure Interactions and Control | 32.5 | 30.8 | 28.3 | −8% | [a0](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601102F/613002/a0) |
| Energy, Power, and Propulsion | 28.1 | 26.5 | 24.4 | −8% | [a1](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601102F/613002/a1) |

> Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan. In the request year they partition this project exactly; in earlier years they can under-cover it.

### Complex Materials and Structures

- 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…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601102F/613002/a2

### Aero-Structure Interactions and Control

- 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…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601102F/613002/a0

### Energy, Power, and Propulsion

- 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…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601102F/613002/a1

## What is NOT on this page

Congressional marks, the R-2 mission description and acquisition strategy, the industry vs government split of the whole request, and related program elements are recorded at **program-element** grain — an NDAA mark lands on a PE, never on a project. They are at https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601102F.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0601102F project 613002 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0601102F")`.

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