What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 1506 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.
- 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 Diagnostics. The focus of these efforts are on the chemical synthesis, structure/property relationships and processing of inorganic, organic, organometallic, biochemical, polymeric, ceramic and nanoparticle materials. Synthesis and advanced processing efforts address Materials for Extreme Environments - polymer and ceramic matrix composites, thermal protection, camouflage, obscurants, directed energy protection, especially for hypersonic applications; Soft Materials - functional and bio-inspired polymers, catalytic polymers, fire suppressant molecules, soft robotics, self-reporting materials, smart materials. - Continue efforts into Materials Processes and Performance. Efforts focus on the discovery and advancement of new and improved structural and functional high performance materials including advances and discovery of new fabrication methods associated understanding of these methods for the consistent production of these new materials. - Continue in Materials for Advanced Sensor Science. Research in this area focuses on the physical properties of materials for the discovery of new functionality with direct application to sensing and advanced electronic devices. The work performed in this area utilizes novel experimental methods, as well as theoretical and computational models to identify and understand materials behavior spanning the range of physical properties of materials including electronic, magnetic, optical, and quantum behaviors. A primary technical objective is to identify new functional materials or new methods to control the functionality of materials to enhance current or enable new sensing capabilities. Evaluation of properties is performed across scales and conditions pertinent to naval applications. Specific areas of research include investigations into enhancing performance of sensing materials through engineering properties of 2D heterostructures, control of optoelectronics properties of halide perovkites, and ferroelectric materials to enable revolutionary advances in sonar device sensitivity. - Continue Materials Modeling, Simulation and Analytics. This research focuses on use of computational methodologies and manipulation of data to discover, identify, and interpret new and innovative insights into material performance and processing methodologies. Efforts aim to investigate the behavior of materials, materials synthesis, processing and characterization, modification of surfaces and plasma processing and engineered materials. Specific areas of research include first principle understanding of material response, advanced modeling and simulation techniques which can address performance of a variety of material systems, design tools for active materials for sensors and actuators, and advances in the algorithmic processes for rapid trace explosives detection. - Continue work into Biologically Enabled Materials. Here, the fundamental properties of the materials are investigated to provide the basis for sensing and actuation approaches, bioelectronics, organizational and structural mechanisms, and protective strategies, driving the underlying concepts and modeling necessary to the application of these novel products to Navy relevant systems and environments. Novel, new, and emerging biomaterials have been touted as the heart of regenerative medicine and the fabric of the medical devices market; however, bio, bioinspired, and bioderived materials offer a wider spectrum of applications than this attention would tend to indicate. From thermal and corrosion protection to waveguide technologies, attributable formulations, and energy transfer, these materials offer novel capabilities that can be harnessed to meet Navy needs. Realization of these applications requires a fundamental understanding of how the materials function and how that function can be adapted to non-native environments and use scenarios.
Increase in funding from FY2026 to FY2027 is due to increased research in various areas, including Biologically Enabled Materials, Materials Modeling, Simulation and Analytics, Materials for Advanced Sensor Science, Materials Processes and Performance, Materials Chemistry and Diagnostics, and Corrosion and Interfacial Chemistry.
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.
- 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 Diagnostics. The focus of these efforts are on the chemical synthesis, structure/property relationships and processing of inorganic, organic, organometallic, biochemical, polymeric, ceramic and nanoparticle materials. Synthesis and advanced processing efforts address Materials for Extreme Environments - polymer and ceramic matrix composites, thermal protection, camouflage, obscurants, directed energy protection, especially for hypersonic applications; Soft Materials - functional and bio-inspired polymers, catalytic polymers, fire suppressant molecules, soft robotics, self-reporting materials, smart materials. - Continue efforts into Materials Processes and Performance. Efforts focus on the discovery and advancement of new and improved structural and functional high performance materials including advances and discovery of new fabrication methods associated understanding of these methods for the consistent production of these new materials. - Continue in Materials for Advanced Sensor Science. Research in this area focuses on the physical properties of materials for the discovery of new functionality with direct application to sensing and advanced electronic devices. The work performed in this area utilizes novel experimental methods, as well as theoretical and computational models to identify and understand materials behavior spanning the range of physical properties of materials including electronic, magnetic, optical, and quantum behaviors. A primary technical objective is to identify new functional materials or new methods to control the functionality of materials to enhance current or enable new sensing capabilities. Evaluation of properties is performed across scales and conditions pertinent to naval applications. Specific areas of research include investigations into enhancing performance of sensing materials through engineering properties of 2D heterostructures, control of optoelectronics properties of halide perovskites, and ferroelectric materials to enable revolutionary advances in sonar device sensitivity. - Continue Materials Modeling, Simulation and Analytics. This research focuses on use of computational methodologies and manipulation of data to discover, identify, and interpret new and innovative insights into material performance and processing methodologies. Efforts aim to investigate the behavior of materials, materials synthesis, processing and characterization, modification of surfaces and plasma processing and engineered materials. Specific areas of research include first principle understanding of material response, advanced modeling and simulation techniques which can address performance of a variety of material systems, design tools for active materials for sensors and actuators, and advances in the algorithmic processes for rapid trace explosives detection. - Continue work into Biologically Enabled Materials. Here, the fundamental properties of the materials are investigated to provide the basis for sensing and actuation approaches, bioelectronics, organizational and structural mechanisms, and protective strategies, driving the underlying concepts and modeling necessary to the application of these novel products to Navy relevant systems and environments. Novel, new, and emerging biomaterials have been touted as the heart of regenerative medicine and the fabric of the medical devices market; however, bio, bioinspired, and bioderived materials offer a wider spectrum of applications than this attention would tend to indicate. From thermal and corrosion protection to waveguide technologies, attributable formulations, and energy transfer, these materials offer novel capabilities that can be harnessed to meet Navy needs. Realization of these applications requires a fundamental understanding of how the materials function and how that function can be adapted to non-native environments and use scenarios. - Continue both exploratory and confirmatory research with future naval application in Materials/Electronics research areas (realigned from Project 1099).
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 | 35.6 |
| FY2027 | Request | 45.1 |
This activity is 41% of project 1506's FY2027 request and 8.6% 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.
10 activities in project 1506
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.