What project 010 buys
The Basic Research Initiatives Project supports oversight of basic research throughout the Department, as well as initiatives and pilot programs, in order to create conditions for defense basic research investments to produce high-payoff, transformative scientific breakthroughs for the Department. The project supports five strategic goals for Basic Research in the Under Secretary for War-Research and Engineering (USW-R&E) Science and Technology (S&T)/Foundations (Foundations/BR): (1) support the technology priorities set by the Department of War (OSW); (2) coordinate and conduct oversight of DoW-wide basic research programs; (3) improve the science and engineering workforce via tailored programs and public outreach; (4) enhance university-industry and university-government collaboration; and (5) engage with the academic research community and international partners. This includes Strategic Support for Basic Research (SSBR), which sustains the operations of the Foundations/BR and creates conditions for research policies and initiatives to be formulated and instantiated. It also includes several pilot programs and initiatives, including international research collaboration and cross-agency joint programs.
Project 010 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 20.6 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 23.2 |
| FY2027 | Request | 29.1 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 27.6 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 29.0 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 31.5 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 32.0 |
1 accomplishment / planned program
The R-2A exhibit — the only level of the budget that describes work that has not happened yet. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only, no five-year plan. Each describes FY2027 work in enough detail to have its own page; the rest are shown here in full. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
• Expand the scale of FY 2026 efforts • Develop strategies and implement pilot programs for improving basic research collaboration with key international allies and partners as well as partnerships between university-government-industry.
Read the FY2027 plan →