What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 0000 of PE 0602123N. 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.
Power & Energy Technologies, includes the following: -Alternative Fuels -Power Distribution & Control -Design Tool development -Thermal Management Technology -Energy Storage -Power Generation - Complete applied research in Medium Voltage Direct Current (MVDC) electrical architectures to reduce risk on future platforms. - Complete research in support of safely integrating large-scale embedded energy storage onto Naval platforms. This includes containment and non-propagation research, and development of the knowledge needed to certify technologies. - Continue Fuel flexibility for contingency operations project - Continue applied research in manufacture of attritable fuel cells - Continue research on cooperative single atom catalysis - Continue zero-volt, energy-dense, ultrasafe battery systems (ZEUS) research - Continue Secure AI for Power Systems - Continue research on manufacture of high efficiency and flexible organic solar cell modules with long lifetimes. - Continue non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) capability improvement - Continue applied superconductivity research in support of future Naval HM&E and mission systems. - Continue research efforts on the Naval Enterprise Partnership Teaming with Universities for National Entrepreneurship (NEPTUNE) program. The effort is derived from previous efforts in the areas of advanced energy systems research, which was focused on enhancing collaborations across academia, industry and DON beneficiaries. The NEPTUNE program is focused on conducting research that provides Navy Energy Education & Training for students. - Continue applied research in Thermal Management to address directed energy, environmental control needs, and update Navy design tools to include advanced thermal modeling capability. - Initiate applied research in battery development under Issue 54112 "Expand the Industrial Base for Battery Development". Design Science, includes the following: - High Fidelity Systems Physics - Systems Complexity Engineering - Virtual Design and Validation Modeling and Simulation - Complex Systems Engineering and Architecture - Digital Engineering for Naval Systems - Continue applied research in hydrodynamics of surface and subsurface platforms and propulsion focusing on the prediction of innovative propulsion concepts and platform designs that improve control of dynamic behaviors to improve efficiency, speed, maintainability, and maneuverability, while reducing overall associated platform signatures, weight, and lifecycle cost. - Continue efforts in enhanced high-fidelity physics modeling and simulation capabilities for high displacement shock events, to improve predictive capabilities and improve design tools and guidance - Continue development of high-fidelity physics and generalized wave propagation modeling efforts in the electromagnetic spectrum, targeting improved tools for assessing platform and system electromagnetic signatures Integrated Cyber-Physical Technologies, includes the following: - Artificial Intelligent Platforms - Morphing and Reconfigurable Systems - Collaborative Platforms - Crewed/Uncrewed Platform Controls and Automation - Continue efforts in applied research of crewed platform autonomous systems to improve warfighter efficiency, damage control, and adaptability in uncertain conditions. -Continue efforts autonomous surface (USV) and undersea platforms (UUV) focusing on the resilience of systems and system of systems for extended time between needed human intervention to extend range, time on station, signature reduction, and adaptability. -Continue efforts in morphing reconfigurable autonomous systems technologies to create efficient adaptable modular autonomous systems. Resilient Naval System Technologies, includes the following: - System Vulnerability Technologies - System Susceptibility Technologies - Recoverable Systems Technologies - Extensible Resilient Technologies - Advanced Maneuver and Propulsion - Complete development of high-fidelity physics and generalized wave propagation modeling efforts in the electromagnetic spectrum, targeting improved tools for assessing platform and system electromagnetic signatures -Complete Machinery Autonomy applied research -Complete applied research into Structural Reliability Technologies - Continue applied research into Wave Transport Technologies general acoustic and electromagnetic signature prediction tools for ground, sea-surface, and subsurface platforms. - Continue research efforts in support of on the Tactical Submarine Evolution Plan (TSEP) S&T, Submarine Detectability, Integrated Permanent Magnet Motors, and Submarine Future Technologies. - Continue research on broad based countermeasures and signature improvement technologies associated with Non-Acoustic Undersea Warfare. - Continue applied research program on Total Platform Vulnerability that seeks to improve the resiliency and extensibility of complex platforms and systems of systems throughout their lifecycle. - Continue efforts in applied research of manned platform autonomous systems, as well as autonomous surface (USV) and undersea platforms (UUV) focusing on the Resiliency of systems and system of systems for extended time between needed human intervention to extend range, time on station, signature reduction, warfighter efficiency, damage control, and adaptability in uncertain adversarial battlespaces. - Continue efforts in applied research of crewed platform autonomous systems to improve warfighter efficiency, damage control, and adaptability in uncertain conditions. - Continue applied research in Wave Transport Technologies to reduce exploitable electromagnetic, optical, and infrared signatures from naval systems.
The decrease in funding from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to the realignment and consolidation of all expeditionary funding under PE 0602123N to the new Expeditionary Campaigns project number 1510 within this PE. Planned programs will continue under new Expeditionary Campaigns project number and have been updated to align to current expeditionary and naval 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.
Power & Energy Technologies, includes the following: -Alternative Fuels -Power Distribution -Design Tool development -Thermal Management Technology -Energy Storage -Power Generation - Complete research efforts associated with superconducting cables for flexible ship degaussing system design and sustainable deployment for new and existing surface ship and submarine programs. - Complete electromechanical machinery applied research to reduce energy demand and improve component and power system energy conversion efficiencies. - Complete Naval installation microgrid resilience via adoption of shipboard zonal distribution. - Continue applied superconductivity research in support of future Naval HM&E and mission systems. - Continue research efforts on the Naval Enterprise Partnership Teaming with Universities for National Entrepreneurship (NEPTUNE) program. The effort is derived from previous efforts in the areas of advanced energy systems research, which was focused on enhancing collaborations across academia, industry and DON beneficiaries. The NEPTUNE program is focused on conducting research that provides Navy Energy Education & Training for students. - Continue applied research in Thermal Management to address directed energy, environmental control needs, and update Navy design tools to include advanced thermal modeling capability. - Continue applied research in Medium Voltage Direct Current (MVDC) electrical architectures to reduce risk on future platforms. - Continue research in support of safely integrating large-scale embedded energy storage onto Naval platforms. This includes containment and non-propagation research, and development of the knowledge needed to certify technologies. - Initiate research efforts associated with air-independent propulsion. - Initiate Fuel flexibility for contingency operations project - Initiate applied research in manufacture of attritable fuel cells - Initiate research on cooperative single atom catalysis - Initiate zero-volt, energy-dense, ultrasafe battery systems (ZEUS) research - Initiate Secure AI for Power Systems - Initiate research on manufacture of high efficiency and flexible organic solar cell modules with long lifetimes. - Initiate non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) capability improvement Design Science, includes the following: - High Fidelity Systems Physics - Systems Complexity Engineering - Virtual Design and Validation Modeling and Simulation - Complex Systems Engineering and Architecture - Digital Engineering for Naval Systems - Continue applied research in hydrodynamics of surface and subsurface platforms and propulsion focusing on the prediction of innovative propulsion concepts and platform designs that improve control of dynamic behaviors to improve efficiency, speed, maintainability, and maneuverability, while reducing overall associated platform signatures, weight, and lifecycle cost. - Continue efforts in enhanced high-fidelity physics modeling and simulation capabilities for high displacement shock events, to improve predictive capabilities and improve design tools and guidance - Continue development of high-fidelity physics and generalized wave propagation modeling efforts in the electromagnetic spectrum, targeting improved tools for assessing platform and system electromagnetic signatures Integrated Cyber-Physical Technologies, includes the following - Artificial Intelligent Platforms - Morphing and Reconfigurable Systems - Collaborative Platforms - Crewed Platform Controls and Automation - Continue efforts in applied research of crewed platform autonomous systems to improve warfighter efficiency, damage control, and adaptability in uncertain conditions. -Continue efforts autonomous surface (USV) and undersea platforms (UUV) focusing on the resilience of systems and system of systems for extended time between needed human intervention to extend range, time on station, signature reduction, and adaptability. -Initiate efforts in morphing reconfigurable autonomous systems technologies to create efficient adaptable modular autonomous systems. Resilient Naval System Technologies, includes the following: - System Vulnerability Technologies - System Susceptibility Technologies - Recoverable Systems Technologies - Extensible Resilient Technologies - Advanced Maneuver and Propulsion - Complete Efforts in Propulsor Hydrodynamics - Complete efforts in Submarine Hydrodynamics - Complete efforts in enhanced high-fidelity physics modeling and simulation capabilities for high displacement shock events, to improve predictive capabilities and improve design tools and guidance - Continue research efforts in support of on the Tactical Submarine Evolution Plan (TSEP) S&T, Submarine Detectability, Integrated Permanent Magnet Motors, and Submarine Future Technologies. - Continue research on broad based countermeasures and signature improvement technologies associated with Non-Acoustic Undersea Warfare. - Continue applied research program on Total Platform Resiliency that seeks to improve the resiliency and extensibility of complex platforms and systems of systems throughout their lifecycle. - Continue efforts in applied research of manned platform autonomous systems, as well as autonomous surface (USV) and undersea platforms (UUV) focusing on the Resiliency of systems and system of systems for extended time between needed human intervention to extend range, time on station, signature reduction, warfighter efficiency, damage control, and adaptability in uncertain adversarial battlespaces. - Continue development of high-fidelity physics and generalized wave propagation modeling efforts in the electromagnetic spectrum, targeting improved tools for assessing platform and system electromagnetic signatures - Continue efforts in applied research of crewed platform autonomous systems to improve warfighter efficiency, damage control, and adaptability in uncertain conditions.
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 | 70.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 75.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 68.2 |
This activity is 54% of project 0000's FY2027 request and 50% of PE 0602123N'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.
5 activities in project 0000
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.