What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 3465 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 projects selected in FY 2026 in support of The development of the naval Science and Engineering workforce at the Naval Warfare Centers and Laboratories via high-risk / high-reward basic research initiatives with direct naval relevance to the naval mission of the Command. Each participating naval site will conduct peer reviews for on-going research projects to assess the progress/quality of the research and to help determine if research investments should continue. - Complete projects selected in FY 2025 as planned. Assess opportunities for technology transition through coordination with naval resource sponsors. Transfer successful efforts to Navy research, development, test & evaluation (RDT&E) sponsored programs. - Initiate FY 2027 research projects. Participating warfare centers / laboratories will generate new research topics with selection decision priority being given to warfighter needs, technology alignment, high quality research, and recruitment / retention needs as appropriate to attract outstanding scientists and engineers to the Department of the Navy. Approved topics will cover a broad range of naval-relevant research areas critical to the naval missions of the participating warfare center and laboratories.
The funding increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is to expand the number of scientists and engineers conducting naval-relevant research efforts at warfare centers and laboratories across the Naval Research and Development Enterprise (NR&DE). Efforts will focus on warfighter needs, technology alignment, high-quality basic research, and will provide additional opportunities for the recruitment and retention of outstanding scientists and engineers within the Navy.
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 projects selected in FY 2025 in support of the naval Science and Engineering workforce at the Naval Warfare Centers and Laboratories via high-risk / high-reward basic research initiatives with direct naval relevance to the naval mission of the Command. Each participating naval site will conduct peer reviews for on-going research projects to assess the progress/quality of the research and to help determine if research investments should continue. - Complete projects selected in FY 2024 as planned. Assess opportunities for technology transition through coordination with naval resource sponsors. Transfer successful efforts to Navy research, development, test & evaluation (RDT&E) sponsored programs. - Initiate FY 2026 research projects. Participating warfare centers / laboratories will generate new research topics with priority given to warfighter needs, technology alignment, high quality research, and recruitment / retention needs as appropriate to attract outstanding scientists and engineers to the Department of the Navy. Approved topics will cover a broad range of naval-relevant research areas critical to the naval missions of the participating warfare center and laboratories.
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 | 17.4 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 18.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 21.0 |
This activity is 100% of project 3465's FY2027 request and 4.0% 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.
1 activity in project 3465
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.