What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 610002 of PE 0601103SF. 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 fund competitive research grants at U.S. universities that focus on significantly expanding the basic knowledge of Department of the Air Force-relevant science and technology areas critical to the U.S. Space Force core technical competencies. - Continue to focus on complex research efforts not normally achievable in smaller funded, single investigator awards.
FY 2027 decreased compared to FY 2026 by $0.334 million due to minor programmatic adjustments to the DAF Science and Technology portfolio.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
- Fund competitive research grants at U.S. universities that focus on significantly expanding the basic knowledge of Department of the Air Force-relevant science and technology areas critical to the U.S. Space Force core technical competencies. - Focus on complex research efforts not normally achievable in smaller funded, single investigator awards.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 10.9 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 11.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 11.0 |
This activity is 76% of project 610002's FY2027 request and 76% of PE 0601103SF'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 610002
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.