What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 615094 of PE 0601103F. 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 to award highly competitive National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) fellowships. - Continue to support competitive awards for graduate and undergraduate research experiences, including those established under the Awards to Stimulate and Support Undergraduate Research Experiences program. - Continue funding for awards initiated under prior year DoD programs.
FY 2027 increased compared to FY 2026 by $10.502 million due to additional investments in NDSEG. This is the second year in the NDSEG Fellowship Program contract restructure to fund current year academic costs only instead of funding each class for multiple years upfront. FY 2027 funds will pay for the 2026 class's second year and the 2027 class's first year. Previously the contract funded the full fellowship of each class across multiple years. NDSEG class size will be reduced from 126 fellows in FY 2025 to 102 fellows in FY 2026 and FY 2027 across the participating Services (Air Force, Army, and Navy).
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
- Award highly competitive National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) fellowships. - Support competitive awards for graduate and undergraduate research experiences, including those established under the Awards to Stimulate and Support Undergraduate Research Experiences program. - Fund awards initiated under prior year DoD programs.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 45.1 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 14.4 |
| FY2027 | Request | 24.9 |
This activity is 27% of project 615094's FY2027 request and 27% of PE 0601103F'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 615094
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 program-element page.