# Research Facilities

**R-2A activity** of project 1398 — Ocean Atmosphere and Space Sciences  
**Program element:** 0601153N — Defense Research Sciences  
**Component:** U.S. Navy · **Budget Activity:** 1  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601153N/1398/a6  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601153N/1398

> **NEW START.** $20.1M requested in FY2027 with no prior-year and no current-year funding.

## Summary

This activity requests $20.1M in FY2027, 17% of project 1398 — a new start with no prior-year and no current-year money. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2027 planned work.** - Provide support to meteorological, limnology, and oceanographic research vessels, aircraft, manned and unmanned platforms and associated services (Such as winches, instrumentation, portable ship-borne scientific laboratory vans and data storage) especially those provided by the ARF to enable at-sea oceanographic science.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Funding increase from FY2026 to FY2027 is due to breaking out support of oceanographic research vessels, aircrafts, manned and unmanned platforms, and associated services for transparency.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 20.1 |

> Prior, current and budget year only — an R-2A activity carries no five-year plan. It sums exactly into its project in the request year and not necessarily in any other.

## Other activities in project 1398

- [Ocean Sciences](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601153N/1398/a0) — FY2027 54.9
- [Battlespace Environments](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601153N/1398/a2) — FY2027 31.3
- Physical Oceanography and Prediction — FY2027 6.6
- Ocean Acoustics — FY2027 2.0
- Expeditionary Ocean Atmosphere and Space Sciences — FY2027 0.0
- Space Research — FY2027 0.0

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Navy RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0601153N project 1398 (PB PB2027). Narrative is the government's own text.
- **No marks, no contractors at this grain** — congressional marks land on the program element and R-3 performers on the project.
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_activity`.

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