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.
- Initiate technology development for the integration of dynamic and responsive biological organisms or bio-inspired molecules into composite materials. - Investigate approaches for the development of biological processes and biologically derived materials to support and sustain the warfighter in austere conditions. - Explore methods that leverage and combine recent advances in biological sensors, interventions, and technologies to develop novel platforms for threat detection and analysis, in both humans and agricultural crops. - Investigate the ability of biological molecules and processes to perform calculations to enable highly adaptable and efficient computational systems and sensors. - Initiate technology development for biohybrid systems capable of enhanced threat sensing, protection, and remediation.
The FY 2027 increase reflects studies and concepts initiations including, but not limited to, applied research in biologically based computational systems and sensors, and novel biological sensors for threat detection and analysis.
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 | 30.1 |
This activity is 20% of project WP-01's FY2027 request and 8.3% 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.