What project DI7 buys
This project matures and demonstrates capabilities to support Army Environmental Security, providing decisions and support tools for critical mission environments to address natural resource impediments, man-made stressors, extreme weather, and environmental engineering challenges that impact mission, infrastructure, training activities, deployment staging or present security concerns to operations. Project capabilities span the functional domains of strategic support area management, emergency preparedness, surge capacity, environmental impact on operations, and analysis of future operational environment and environmental threats. This effort will provide new material solutions, models and decision support tools for operational planning and infrastructure management. Work in this project complements PE 0603119A, Project DI8 (Environmental Security Resilience Adv Tech). Work in this project is performed by the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center Environmental Laboratory, Construction Research Engineering Laboratory, and the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory.
Project DI7 funding, FY2025–FY2026
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 1.7 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 10.1 |
8 accomplishments / planned programs
The R-2A exhibit — the only level of the budget that describes work that has not happened yet. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only, no five-year plan. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding decrease reflects the strategic reallocation of resources to support evolving priorities and objectives.
FY2026 plans — current year Will conduct select field assessments at the Distributed Virtual Proving Ground - Multi-Sensor Array (MSA) and partner sites to focus on scenarios of buoyancy dominated turbulence (dry, quiescent conditions, thermal circulations dominant) where surface heterogenous surface fluxes are crucial to understand the impact of energy propagation; improve physical and numerical models that are representative of atmospheric effects based on MSA and select field assessment results; refine and advance investigation of sensing algorithms and strategies informed by atmospheric impacts on multi-modal (acoustic/radio frequency (RF)/optical/electromagnetic (EM)) sensors applicable to detection…
FY2025 accomplishments Will conduct field tests using the Distributed Virtual Proving Ground - Multi-Sensor Array in relevant scenarios and conditions to collect and investigate meteorological and other operational data to understand the impact of atmospheric phenomena on energy propagation; develop physical and numerical models that are representative of atmospheric effects; investigate sensing algorithms and strategies informed by atmospheric impacts on multi-modal (acoustic/radio frequency (RF)/optical/electromagnetic (EM)) sensors applicable to detection, localization, and tracking; develop techniques, methods, and models for the characterization of ambient atmospheric and threat aerosols…
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding decrease reflects the strategic reallocation of resources to support evolving priorities and objectives.
FY2026 plans — current year Will conduct forecast innovation and weather research based on Army operational environments and coordination with the ICAMS Program.
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding decrease reflects FY 2026 termination of effort.
FY2026 plans — current year Will investigate necessary parameters, through data analysis and model refinement, for modeling soil structural and chemical properties to understanding the impacts of ground training on Army natural lands.
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding decrease reflects FY 2026 termination of effort.
FY2026 plans — current year Will identify modular design reporting system architecture to host PFAS communications/resource hub and existing risk decision tools for installation managers. Will investigate parameters to validate PFAS modeling data.
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding decrease represents consolidation of effort to Program Element 0602144A/ Project CV3 Engineer Enablers for Contested Maneuver, Logistics and Sustainment to combine engineering functions into a project. This will generate efficiencies and enable flexibility as mission needs change.
FY2026 plans — current year Will investigate hydrology models that support near- and long-term forecasting of water need and sources for installations.
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding decrease represents consolidation of effort to PE 0602144A/ Project BL7 Power Projection in A2AD Environments Technology to combine power projection into a project.
FY2026 plans — current year Will conduct genomic research to identify DNA-sequence based features that identify genetic-engineering traces specifically in bio-threat species.
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding decrease represents consolidation of effort to PE 0602144A/ Project BL7 Power Projection in A2AD Environments Technology to combine power projection into a project.
FY2026 plans — current year Will investigate a platform agnostic ultra-light electromagnetic array and corresponding advanced processing algorithms to detect and classify metallic/conventional targets of interest in the subsurface.
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding decrease reflects the strategic reallocation of resources to support evolving priorities and objectives.
FY2026 plans — current year Will apply results of teleconnection pattern correlation investigation (causal connections or correlations between meteorological or other environmental phenomena which occur a long distance apart) and the surface energy budget, specifically surface sensible and latent energy flux (Bowen Ratio) to improve computational tools for predicting the magnitude and impact of weather on operations, weapon systems, and personnel; research and examine flash drought effects and dust lofting-particles on Directed Energy (DE) signal propagation.