What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 1396 of PE 0601153N. 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.
- Complete research efforts related to Submarine Detectability - Continue efforts in Engineered Materials (morphing structures, composite structures and Metamaterials) for control of wave propagation in materials and fluid structure interactions - Continue Novel Propulsion Physics efforts investigating next generation all-domain propulsion physics - Continue research into fluid-structure interactions specifically Turbulence and Flow Induced Noise and Vibration - Continue efforts in foundational scientific work of electromagnetic interaction of naval systems in complex hostile environments - Continue research in Non-Acoustic Signatures Science for Advanced Naval Platforms, to include Radio-Frequency Electromagnetic, Infrared, Electro-Optical, and Low-Frequency Electromagnetic physics. - Continue Resilient Structures efforts aimed at producing foundational work in structural configurations and materials to enable self-sustainable, self-repairable, and highly damage resistant structures. - Continue Multiscale Mechanics efforts to develop fundamental multiscale and Multiphysics mechanics theories that bridge the nano scale to the continuum scale to predict material and structural strength. - Continue research in Wave Transport in Complex Media - Continue efforts in Chemical Physics at Interfaces efforts to understand basic scientific principles controlling solid/liquid interfacial interactions of complex physical systems. - Continue both exploratory and confirmatory research with future naval application in Resilient Naval Systems Science and Engineering research areas - Continue efforts in Morphing Composite Structures and Controls for energy dissipation control - Initiate efforts in Novel Flow Physics and Instrumentation to characterize complex flow physics in full-scale physics experiments - Initiate efforts in Maneuvering Dynamics and Complex Flows to understand complex hydrodynamics of maneuvering bodies at full scale. - Initiate Multiscale and Multiphysics modeling efforts to develop novel fundamental multiscale and Multiphysics hydrodynamics theories and models.
Funding Increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to increased research in Wave Transport in Complex Media, Platform Signature Related Sciences to include Electromagnetic Signatures, Acoustic Signatures, and Platform Detectability, and Dynamic Bonding in Naval Systems for reconfigurable and modular future systems.
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.
- Complete efforts in Structural Reliability Science - Complete efforts in Propulsion Hydromechanics - Complete efforts in Structural Acoustics - Complete efforts with the Centers for Innovative Naval Prototypes - Continue Novel Propulsion Physics efforts investigating next generation all-domain propulsion physics - Continue efforts in Engineered Materials (Metamaterials) for control of wave propagation in materials - Continue research into fluid-structure interactions specifically Turbulence and Flow Induced Noise and Vibration (Note that this work will be initiated in FY25) - Continue efforts in foundational scientific work of electromagnetic interaction of naval systems in complex hostile environments - Continue research in Non-Acoustic Signatures Science for Advanced Naval Platforms, to include Radio-Frequency Electromagnetic, Infrared, Electro-Optical, and Low-Frequency Electromagnetic physics. - Continue Resilient Structures efforts aimed at producing foundational work in structural configurations and materials to enable self-sustainable, self-repairable, and highly damage resistant structures. (Note that this work will be initiated in FY25) - Continue Multiscale Mechanics efforts to develop fundamental multiscale and Multiphysics mechanics theories that bridge the nano scale to the continuum scale to predict material and structural strength. (Note that this work will be initiated in FY25) - Continue Multiscale and Multiphysics modeling efforts to develop fundamental multiscale and Multiphysics hydrodynamics theories. (Note that this work will be initiated in FY25) - Continue both exploratory and confirmatory research with future naval application in Resilient Naval Systems Science and Engineering research areas (realigned from project unit 1099) - Continue research in Wave Transport in Complex Media - Initiate efforts in Chemical Physics at Interfaces efforts to understand basic scientific principles controlling solid/liquid interfacial interactions of complex physical systems. - Initiate efforts in Morphing Composite Structures and Controls for energy dissipation control
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 | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 5.6 |
| FY2027 | Request | 13.5 |
This activity is 67% of project 1396's FY2027 request and 2.6% of PE 0601153N'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.
5 activities in project 1396
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.