What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project AB7 of PE 0601104A. 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.
Will explore electrolyte phase behavior for new battery chemistries; investigate the influence of ion dynamics on battery degradation; analyze selective metal deposition for enhanced energy density; study morphological properties that induce increased battery stability; conduct research on the effects of temperature on mechanical stability; validate molecular and microstructural mechanisms for self-healing; examine the effects of atomic-scale degradation that lead to performance loss; explore high throughput identification of high activity cathode and anode materials.
FY 2027 funding increase reflects development of next generation batteries.
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) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2027 | Request | 15.2 |
This activity is 32% of project AB7's FY2027 request and 28% of PE 0601104A'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.
22 activities in project AB7
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.