What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 613004 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 funding disruptive basic research opportunities at international universities and organizations discovered by engaging with and leveraging the worldwide research community. - Continue to explore foreign investments and influence premier scientific leaders on specific topics of interest to the Department of the Air Force. - Continue to pursue access to and enable transition of fundamental scientific discoveries relevant to the Department of the Air Force that are not being addressed in U.S. universities. - Continue to support international engagements by scientists and high-level DoW fundamental science delegations, providing primary interface to coordinate international science and technology participation among DoW organizations.
FY 2027 decreased compared to FY 2026 by $0.767 million due to minor programmatic adjustments to the DAF Science and Technology portfolio.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
- Fund disruptive basic research opportunities at international universities and organizations discovered by engaging with and leveraging the worldwide research community. - Explore foreign investments and influence premier scientific leaders on specific topics of interest to the Department of the Air Force. - Pursue access to and enable transition of fundamental scientific discoveries relevant to the Department of the Air Force that are not being addressed in U.S. universities. - Support international engagements by scientists and high-level Department of War (DoW) fundamental science delegations, providing primary interface to coordinate international science and technology participation among DoW organizations.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 15.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 15.4 |
| FY2027 | Request | 14.6 |
This activity is 54% of project 613004's FY2027 request and 4.9% 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.
2 activities in project 613004
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.