What project 1506 buys
This Focus Area (FA) enhances the performance, affordability, survivability, and reliability of the future fleet and force by developing materials with novel or enhanced properties suited to the unique needs of Navy and Marine Corps platforms and systems. Research relevant to enabling enhanced performance and resiliency of naval systems and platforms are included in this R-2 Activity.
Project 1506 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 114.8 |
| FY2027 | Request | 109.6 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 112.6 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 117.4 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 123.2 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 119.4 |
10 accomplishments / planned programs
The R-2A exhibit — the only level of the budget that describes work that has not happened yet. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only, no five-year plan. 2 of them describe FY2027 work in enough detail to have their own page; the rest are shown here in full. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
- Continue work into Corrosion and Interfacial Chemistry. Efforts in this area of research target an understanding of corrosion and interfacial chemistries/processes to develop new materials technologies and control measures to ensure Fleet readiness, critical operations, and survivability. - Continue efforts into Materials Chemistry and…
Read the FY2027 plan →- Continue research investigations of electronic materials essential to the sensors, electronics, and electronic warfare systems needed for future US naval dominance. - Continue theoretical, numerical, and experimental research in Power Electronics Science to create an improved understanding and realization of power electronic materials…
Read the FY2027 plan →FY2027 planned work - Continue research to explore opportunities for controlling material composition and atomic structure through characterization and modeling to enhance electro-mechanical coupling for next generation Acoustic Transduction and Sensor Materials. - Continue research to better understand the chemical and mechanical properties of materials for durable surface treatments to impart both resistance to fouling and facilitate removal of biofoulers between maintenance intervals.
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding decrease from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to reduced research to explore opportunities for controlling material composition and atomic structure through characterization and modeling to enhance electro-mechanical coupling for next generation Acoustic Transduction and Sensor Materials.
FY2026 plans — current year - Continue research to explore opportunities for controlling material composition and atomic structure through characterization and modeling to enhance electro-mechanical coupling for next generation Acoustic Transduction and Sensor Materials. - Continue research to better understand the chemical and mechanical properties of Materials for Environment Quality.
FY2027 planned work - Complete research efforts regarding Corrosion Control Science (for conventionally and additive manufactured materials) including galvanic and microbially influenced corrosion for enhanced resiliency and sustainability of naval platforms and systems. - Complete research of Electrochemical Materials and Functional Organic Materials and Composites to understand phenomenology that can be applied to more efficient energy capture and power storage and distribution for a wide distribution of naval emerging requirements, - Complete research investigations of Computer-Aided Material Design to accelerate research in all areas described here. - Continue research on controlling material composition…
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding decrease from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to realignment of funding within this PU to better align funding to current naval and administrative priorities. FY 2026 efforts were moved from this R2A to R2A Materials and Chemistry under the same PU in FY 2027.
FY2026 plans — current year - Continue research efforts regarding Corrosion Control Science (for conventionally and additive manufactured materials) including galvanic and microbially influenced corrosion for enhanced resiliency and sustainability of naval platforms and systems. - Continue research of Electrochemical Materials and Functional Organic Materials and Composites to understand phenomenology that can be applied to more efficient energy capture and power storage and distribution for a wide distribution of naval emerging requirements, - Continue research investigations of Computer-Aided Material Design to accelerate research in all areas described here. - Continue work into Corrosion and Interfacial Chemistry…
FY2027 planned work - Complete foundational research that provides the underpinnings for robust systems and platforms, exploring and understanding phenomenology of structural properties as functions of with the aim to improve performance and predict and mitigate component degradation, captured in quantitative data and physics-driven models that utilize an Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) approach and support machine learning. Research domains include Basic Materials Research, Structural Metals, Polymer Composite Materials, Propulsion Materials, Sensors & NDE Prognostics, and Alternative Hull Materials & Structures. - Complete research effort in the physics and chemistry of extreme material…
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding decrease from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to reduced research in the physics and chemistry of extreme material behavior, materials for new sensor modalities, and material development for multifunctional capabilities such as energy storage systems that are structural, or coatings that both protect a substrate and harvest energy, function as a sensor or limit platform signatures.
FY2026 plans — current year - Continue foundational research that provides the underpinnings for robust systems and platforms, exploring and understanding phenomenology of structural properties as functions of with the aim to improve performance and predict and mitigate component degradation, captured in quantitative data and physics-driven models that utilize an Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) approach and support machine learning. Research domains include Basic Materials Research, Structural Metals, Polymer Composite Materials, Propulsion Materials, Sensors & NDE Prognostics, and Alternative Hull Materials & Structures. - Continue research effort in the physics and chemistry of extreme material…
FY2027 planned work Nanoscale Computing Devices and Systems: - Continue research efforts on ultra-low power nanoelectronic materials, devices, and architectures. - Continue research efforts exploring new platforms for probabilistic computing in stochastic networks. - Continue investigation of novel physical phenomena in quantum materials. - Continue research on coherent manipulation and interrogation of atomic and molecular spin qubits. - Complete research explorations of topological quantum computing in solid-state devices.
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding decrease from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to reduced research in explorations of topological quantum computing in solid-state devices.
FY2026 plans — current year - Continue research efforts on ultra-low power nanoelectronic materials, devices, and architectures. - Continue research explorations of topological quantum computing in solid-state devices. - Continue research efforts exploring new platforms for probabilistic computing in stochastic networks. - Continue investigation of novel physical phenomena in quantum materials. - Continue research on coherent manipulation and interrogation of atomic and molecular spin qubits.
FY2027 planned work Electronics and Sensors Technology: - Continue research efforts to create new knowledge and understanding and explore new concepts, components, techniques and methods, for the design, growth, and characterization of electronic, electromagnetic, quantum enabled, and electro-optical materials; fabrication processes, electronic and electro-optic components, including novel electromagnetic concepts and techniques, and plasma phenomena and theory. - Continue research investigations in nitrogen-polar GaN materials and device physics. - Continue research efforts investigating defects and material stability of nitrogen-polar GaN materials and devices. - Continue research in porous III-Nitride…
FY2026 to FY2027 change The funding decrease from FY 2026 to FY 2027 reflects reduced investments in superconducting electronics technology.
FY2026 plans — current year Electronics and Sensors Technology: - Continue research investigations in nitrogen-polar GaN materials and device physics. - Continue research in porous III-Nitride materials. - Continue research efforts investigating defects and material stability of nitrogen-polar GaN materials and devices. - Continue research investigations into p-type and n-type crystalline metal nitride materials, transport properties and heterostructures. - Continue research investigations in superconducting GaN materials and device development. - Continue studies on superconducting GaN functional circuits. - Continue research efforts to create new knowledge and understanding and explore new concepts, components…
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 marine corps priorities.
FY2026 plans — current year - Complete research of ultra-low size, weight, and power communications in a contested environment. (Expeditionary Warfare) - Complete research and development into physical and quantum limitations of photon detection to enhance understanding of light-matter interactions, beam control, and detection. (Expeditionary Warfare) - Complete efforts to develop a comprehensive United Stated Marine Corps (USMC) science, technology, engineering and mathematics plan that effectively supports both Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps cadets and recent USMC veterans in their transition to and growth within science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields, a structured approach. (Expeditionary…
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 marine corps priorities.
FY2026 plans — current year -Complete research into understanding the fundamental limit of infrared detection beyond the electron-photon interactions of photoelectric and thermal photon-based detections. (Expeditionary Warfare) -Complete research into ultra-wide bandgap power electronics for ultrahigh frequency and medium voltage operation in extreme environments. (Expeditionary Warfare)
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 marine corps priorities.
FY2026 plans — current year - Complete research into developing a multi-physics understanding of multiferroic materials to enable future new expeditionary applications. (Expeditionary Warfare) - Complete research into quantum couplings to control phonon relaxation or transport processes in a material system. (Expeditionary Warfare) - Complete research on enhancing/optimizing the magnetoelectric coupling efficiency among electric, magnetic, mechanical, and optical (properties) states to explore fundamental light-matter interaction in heterostructured multiferroic materials. (Expeditionary Warfare) - Complete the effort in Materials Control through Quantum Coupling for Enhanced Sensing and Transduction. (Expeditionary…