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 identifying, recruiting, and increasing opportunities for new investigators to participate in critical Department of the Air Force research. - Continue to support basic science, mathematics, and engineering research efforts to include funding in microelectronics, materials, energy, aerospace, quantum science, and other fields of importance to the Department of the Air Force with HBCU, Hispanic-Serving Institutions, and other institutions.
FY 2027 increased compared to FY 2026 by $2.795 million due to increased emphasis in research at the United States Air Force Academy.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
- Identify, recruit, and increase opportunities for new investigators to participate in critical Department of the Air Force research. - Support basic science, mathematics, and engineering research efforts to include funding in microelectronics, materials, energy, aerospace, quantum science, and other fields of importance to the Department of the Air Force with Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), Hispanic-Serving Institutions, and other institutions.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 15.5 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 9.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 12.3 |
This activity is 46% of project 613004's FY2027 request and 4.1% 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.
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.