R-2A Activity · President's Budget PB2027

Logic Understanding for Complex Information Dissemination (LUCID)

FY2027 Request
$23.7M
▲ 157% vs FY2026
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This activity requests $23.7M in FY2027, 12% of project EMR-01, up 157% on FY2026. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2026–FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

FY2027 Request
$23.7M
▲ 157% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$9.2M
In law
Planned work

What the FY2027 request buys

Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project EMR-01 of PE 0601122E. 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.

FY2027 planned work

- Demonstrate that proof explicitly encodes key semantic information that can be mapped to the operational context to enhance the operator's insight. - Develop AI architectures that enable users to enhance system understanding. - Develop test scenarios and proof artifacts and perform test and evaluation within a realistic gaming environment. - Develop formal proof artifacts for use in case-specific software tool components. - Develop interactive, visual, or immersive approaches such as haptics and virtual/augmented reality that facilitate users exploratory interaction with software systems.

FY2026 to FY2027 change

The FY 2027 increase reflects continued development of proof-based techniques for software understanding, adaptation, and interaction and additional efforts to demonstrate and evaluate the techniques in realistic environments and systems.

Before the request year

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.

FY2026 plans — current year

- Begin the proof-of-concept to demonstrate that proofs encode software system knowledge to enhance system understanding and adaptation. - Initiate development of test scenarios and proof artifacts.

Money

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.

09.2FY26ENACTED23.7FY27REQUEST
Enacted Request
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2026Enacted9.2
FY2027Request23.7

This activity is 12% of project EMR-01's FY2027 request and 6.1% of PE 0601122E'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.

Where this sits

15 activities in project EMR-01

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.

Math and Algorithms Studies and Concepts$54.4M ▲ 144%Artificial Intelligence Studies and Concepts$38.3M ▲ 11%
Logic Understanding for Complex Information Dissemination (LUCID) — this activity$23.7M ▲ 157%
Foundational Artificial Intelligence (AI) Science$16.1M ▼ 2%
Young Faculty Award (YFA)$16.0M ▼ 1%Exponentiating Mathematics (expMath)$14.1M ▲ 2%
Translating All C To Rust (TRACTOR)$9.8M ▼ 9%
Intrinsic Cognitive Security (ICS)$7.5M ▼ 26%
Fostering Research and Growth in Emerging Artificial Intelligence (AI FORGE)$6.6M ▲ 37%
Scientific Feasibility (SciFy)$4.5M ▼ 50%
Mapping Machine Learning to Physics (ML2P)$2.8M ▼ 37%
Advanced Tools for Modeling and Simulation$1.8M ▼ 74%
In The Moment (ITM)▼ 100%
Enhanced SBOM for Optimized Software Sustainment (E-BOSS)▼ 100%
Advanced Research Concepts (ARC)▼ 100%
Source
FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification · Exhibit R-2A · PE 0601122E, project EMR-01 (President's Budget PB2027). Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, never on an activity.
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