What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 613003 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 designing and analyzing techniques to enable reliable and secure exchange of information and predictable operation of networks and systems, including hardware and software interactions. - Continue to investigate traditional aspects of information assurance with an emphasis on the underlying mathematics of secure-by-design architectures of networked communications and neural information processing. - Continue to analyze, optimize, and design multi-scale networks with resilient features against noise and corruption from difficult environments and adversarial operations, using rigorous mathematical models of information exchange, physical operations, and human-machine interactions. - Continue to develop new computing approaches and algorithms for network-of-network information processing at the speed of warfare and new mathematical approaches for predictive, multi-scale and multi-physics simulations of Department of the Air Force systems and systems-of-systems in realistic environments.
FY 2027 increased compared to FY 2026 by $0.995 million due to minor programmatic adjustments to the DAF Science and Technology portfolio.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
- Design and analyze techniques to enable reliable and secure exchange of information and predictable operation of networks and systems, including hardware and software interactions. - Investigate traditional aspects of information assurance with an emphasis on the underlying mathematics of secure-by-design architectures of networked communications and neural information processing. - Analyze, optimize, and design multi-scale networks with resilient features against noise and corruption from difficult environments and adversarial operations, using rigorous mathematical models of information exchange, physical operations, and human-machine interactions. - Develop new computing approaches and algorithms for network-of-network information processing at the speed of warfare and new mathematical approaches for predictive, multi-scale and multi-physics simulations of Department of the Air Force systems and systems-of-systems in realistic environments.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 21.6 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 20.1 |
| FY2027 | Request | 21.1 |
This activity is 22% of project 613003's FY2027 request and 7.1% 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.
4 activities in project 613003
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.