What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 1400 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 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 to enable effective cooling of future directed energy systems, power electronics, personnel, etc. - Continue power generation research to improve operational endurance, energy storage, distribution, power management and control. - Continue to advance material science for electrochemical energy storage, alternative fuels, fuel cells, dielectrics, and photovoltaics. - Continue physics-based modeling efforts, and the development of digital twins for power and energy materials, components, and systems. - Initiate power and energy research under the Naval Undersea Research Program supporting undersea weapons. - Initiate fundamental research in the development of advanced batteries to Expand the Industrial Base for Battery Development.
Funding increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to increased research in power and energy research under the Naval Undersea Research Program supporting undersea weapons and fundamental research in the development of advanced batteries to Expand the Industrial Base for Battery Development.
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 both exploratory and confirmatory research with future naval application in Thermal Management and Power Distribution, Control & Resilience research areas. - Continue fundamental electrical power, energy and propulsion research. - Continue research in heat transfer and thermal management science and materials to enable effective cooling of future directed energy systems, power electronics, personnel, etc. - Continue power generation research to improve operational endurance, energy storage, distribution, power management and control. - Continue power electronics research for improved energy conversion efficiency, and electromagnetic materials research to achieve compatibility with high frequency power electronics. - Continue to advance material science for electrochemical energy storage, alternative fuels, fuel cells, dielectrics, and photovoltaics. - Continue physics-based modeling efforts, and the development of digital twins for power and energy materials, components, and systems.
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 | 11.8 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 9.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 11.8 |
This activity is 63% of project 1400's FY2027 request and 2.2% 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 1400
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.