# Project 1400 — Power and Energy

**Program element:** 0601153N — Defense Research Sciences  
**Project:** 1400  
**Component:** U.S. Navy  
**Appropriation:** 1319 — RDT&E, Navy  
**Budget Activity:** 1 — Basic Research  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601153N/1400  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601153N

## Summary

Project 1400 — Power and Energy requests $18.8M in FY2027, 3.6% of the $525.4M requested for program element 0601153N, down 5.4% on FY2026. 5 R-2A activities decompose the request.

## Funding profile

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 26.1 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 19.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 18.8 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 18.7 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 19.7 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 20.0 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 20.0 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0601153N; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## What project 1400 buys

The vision of the Power and Energy Focus Area is "Naval Missions unconstrained by power and energy. The Power and Energy Focus Area enable increasingly efficient, reliable, resilient and abundant energy for Navy and Marine Corps infrastructure, platforms, systems and equipment. This focus area develops energy/power/thermal technologies required to deliver advanced naval capabilities and the ability to sustain/operate in contested logistics environments.

## Activities (R-2A) — 5

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Power, Energy and Propulsion | 11.8 | 9.9 | 11.8 | +19% | [a1](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601153N/1400/a1) |
| Structural Materials | 7.9 | 8.7 | 7.0 | −19% | — |
| Aerospace Propulsion, Power and Thermal Management | 3.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | — |
| Sea Warfare and Weapons STEM | 1.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | — |
| Expeditionary Power and Energy | 1.4 | 1.3 | 0.0 | −100% | — |

> Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan. In the request year they partition this project exactly; in earlier years they can under-cover it.

### Power, Energy and Propulsion

- Complete power electronics research for improved energy conversion efficiency, and electromagnetic materials research to achieve compatibility with high frequency power electronics. - Continue fundamental electrical power, energy and propulsion research. - Continue research in heat transfer and thermal management science and materials…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601153N/1400/a1

### Structural Materials

**FY2027 planned work.** - Continue research efforts into Power, Energy, and Propulsion topics to advance Navy / Marine Corps capabilities in power, energy, and propulsion. These research efforts will develop an understanding of new materials for on-demand (electro)chemical energy generation, harvesting, storage, and release. Research efforts will focus on energy storage materials, including energetic materials, reactive metal nanoparticle fuel additives, new - both nanoscale and mesoporous - materials and supercapacitors and safe rechargeable batteries.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Funding decrease from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to decrease in research within Power, Energy, Propulsion, and energy storage.

**FY2026 plans — current year.** - Continue research efforts into Power, Energy, and Propulsion topics to advance Navy / Marine Corps capabilities in power, energy, and propulsion. These research efforts will develop an understanding of new materials for on-demand (electro)chemical energy generation, harvesting, storage, and release. Research efforts will focus on energy storage materials, including energetic materials, reactive metal nanoparticle fuel additives, new - both nanoscale and mesoporous - materials and supercapacitors and safe rechargeable batteries.

### Expeditionary Power and Energy

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** The decrease in funding from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to the realignment and consolidation of all expeditionary funding under PE 0601153N to the new Expeditionary Campaigns project number 1510 within this PE. Planned programs have been updated to align to current expeditionary and naval priorities.

**FY2026 plans — current year.** - Complete research to study, characterize, understand, and exploit anionic redox phenomena in lithium-ion and sodium- ion batteries and solve fundamental challenges en route to improving and designing new materials that could increase the cathode capacity of these battery chemistries by exploiting the anionic redox processes. (Expeditionary Warfare) - Complete research into understanding the innate multi-physics of multiferroic materials to enable future new expeditionary applications.

## What is NOT on this page

Congressional marks, the R-2 mission description and acquisition strategy, the industry vs government split of the whole request, and related program elements are recorded at **program-element** grain — an NDAA mark lands on a PE, never on a project. They are at https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601153N.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Navy RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0601153N project 1400 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0601153N")`.

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