What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 613002 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 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 systems, including developing novel energetic materials as well as understanding, optimizing, and controlling combustion processes.
FY 2027 decreased compared to FY 2026 by $2.149 million due to decreased emphasis on Energy, Power, and Propulsion. This reduction reflects programmatic adjustments to the DAF Science and Technology portfolio for strategic realignment to optimize core research areas and improve resource efficiency. This will result in approximately 9 fewer grants awarded in Energy, Power, and Propulsion.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
- Explore scientific advances by integrating core disciplines of combustion, plasma dynamics, chemistry, hydrodynamics, structural dynamics, and multi-fidelity simulations. - Investigate processes associated with the generation, storage, and utilization of energy, specifically for Department of the Air Force systems, including developing novel energetic materials as well as understanding, optimizing, and controlling combustion processes.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 28.1 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 26.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 24.4 |
This activity is 29% of project 613002's FY2027 request and 8.2% 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 613002
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.