What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 624349 of PE 0602102F. 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 to rapidly respond to electrical and structural failure investigations and to transition material and process lessons learned to promote mishap prevention, design/production risk reduction and accelerated system solutions. - Continue the research and development of improved material and process analysis techniques, nondestructive inspection (NDI) and material/mechanical test methods to prevent material system failure/degradation in demonstration, testing, production and in service - Continue the development and prototyping of advanced material and processing solutions, including technology implementation support, that accelerates warfighter system development, production, fielding and availability with enhanced flight safety. - Continue the refinement of the development and application of material system failure analysis, aerospace mishap investigation and other lab evaluation capabilities to include application of metals, polymer matrix composites, elastomers, adhesives, electronics, electrical systems, chemical analysis, mechanical test, NDI, counterfeit and other necessary material and process competencies. - Continue the analysis and validation of advanced high power and electrostatic discharge test, characterization and protection methods for operations, emerging systems, avionics subsystems and support processes. - Continue the transition of advanced material processing, characterization, inspection, quality control and repair methods into the Department of War policy for military/national specifications and standards to enable accelerated cost competitive and safe implementation of material and process technology on current and future weapon systems.
Funding in FY 2027 increased by $0.072 million compared to FY 2026 due to programmatic adjustments to the DAF Science and Technology portfolio toward higher strategic priorities.
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 to rapidly respond to electronic and structure failure investigations and to transition materials and processing lessons learned to promote mishap prevention and accelerated system solutions. - Continue the research and development of improved materials and processing analysis techniques, nondestructive inspection and test methods to prevent material system failure/degradation in production and in service. - Continue the development and prototyping of advanced materials and processing solutions, including technology implementation support, to accelerate warfighter system availability and enhance flight safety. - Continue the refinement of the development and application of material system failure analysis capabilities to include metals, polymer matrix composites, elastomers, adhesives, electronics, electrical systems and others. - Continue the analysis and validation of advanced high power and electrostatic discharge protection technologies and procedures for emerging systems, avionics subsystems and support processes. - Continue the transition of advanced material processing, characterization, and procedural methods into the Department of War/ national specifications and standards to ensure the stability, quality, and safety of emerging electrical and structural materials and processes.
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 | 17.8 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 18.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 18.0 |
This activity is 39% of project 624349's FY2027 request and 13% of PE 0602102F'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.
3 activities in project 624349
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.