What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project WP-02 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.
- Demonstrate accuracy in identifying single and mixed groups of microorganisms in vitro. - Demonstrate efficacy for at least one novel wound infection treatment approach in vitro. - Determine the appropriate regulatory pathway(s) for the wound infection sensing and treatment devices with the Food and Drug Administration. - Finalize the engineering designs or schematics for the wound infection sensing and treatment devices.
The FY 2027 decrease reflects a shift in focus from early technology development and in vitro testing to in vivo validation.
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.
- Finalize the characterization of microorganisms present in tissue samples from infected wounds. - Continue optimization and improvement of algorithms to accurately predict the healing outcome of individual wounds. - Start sensor development to identify and characterize microorganisms within wounds in real time. - Initiate the development of an electronic platform to produce, dispense, or provide antimicrobial therapeutics. - Initiate the development of approaches to determine the appropriate treatments for different types of infections.
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) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | Enacted | 16.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 14.2 |
This activity is 7.5% of project WP-02's FY2027 request and 3.9% 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.
14 activities in project WP-02
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.