What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project CZ9 of PE 0602141A. 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.
Will investigate processing methods for making robust materials suitable for high temperature environments; develop and validate optimization tools that enable performance improvements through novel processes; deepen understanding and identify relationships between materials processing methods and mechanical properties; advance current capabilities for mixing and processing materials used for propulsion; create analysis tools to accelerate assessment of structures and architectures of complex multi-material systems; conduct computational and experimental studies on Army-relevant, canonical flight geometries; incorporate components such as post-launch propulsion, navigation, and guidance to study the feasibility and effectiveness of low-cost hypersonic weapons.
This is not a new start effort. FY 2027 funding increase reflects the consolidation of other ongoing efforts within this project from Foundational Hypersonic Weapon Materials and Foundational Hypersonic Weapons Flight and Control to support the creation of Foundational Hypersonics. Funding increase reflects additional research supporting processing methods for materials in high temperature environments and analysis tools to assess structures and architectures of complex multi-material systems.
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 | 10.8 |
This activity is 71% of project CZ9's FY2027 request and 4.6% of PE 0602141A'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.
4 activities in project CZ9
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.