What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project WP-01 of PE 0602024E. 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.
- Investigate approaches for the development of chemical and biological processes and biologically derived materials to support and sustain the warfighter in all conditions. - Initiate formulation and characterization of materials chemistries for the catalytic separation of domestic agricultural and forestry residues at the laboratory scale. - Initiate formulation and characterization of materials chemistries for the catalytic conversion of domestic agricultural and forestry residues to value-added chemicals at the laboratory scale. - Explore methods that leverage and combine recent advances in catalyst material development to improve the stability, activity, and selectivity of materials for biomass processing at the laboratory scale. - Explore formulation and characterization of materials chemistries for the catalytic separation and conversion of global agricultural and forestry residues to value-added chemicals at the laboratory scale.
The FY 2027 increase reflects program initiation to enhance the DoW's capability to produce critical materials and molecules from biomass sources, including agricultural and forestry residues.
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) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2027 | Request | 20.0 |
This activity is 14% of project WP-01's FY2027 request and 5.5% of PE 0602024E'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.
12 activities in project WP-01
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.