What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 623066 of PE 0602203F. 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 demonstration of high efficiency, high durability propulsion components tailored for embedded systems. Activities include: -Complete distortion tolerant fan manufacturing and start test event. Continue engine component validated methodologies trade engine life, cost, and performance. Activities include: -Demonstration of risk based design for cost/schedule benefits Continue development of predictive analysis tools to enable reliable, sufficiently durable component designs to enable affordable mass for Autonomous Collaborative Platforms (ACP). Activities include: -Assessment of ability of methods to increase turbine engine parts acceptance rates at increased risk posture Continue new lubrication function higher temperature turbine engine mechanical systems. Activities include -Maturation of several lubricants' performance under laboratory test conditions. Commence detailed design of fan modification to enable embedding of commercial engines in military platforms. Activities include -Design of multiple distortion tolerant features into a commercial fan. Commence the development of an artificial intelligence model for assisting turbine engine component design. Activities include -Utilize datasets for model training to improve design time and application optimization. Commence the demonstration of a novel additive manufactured turbine bladed disk. Activities include -Conducting engine testing of components to validate service life and system applications. Commence development of technology to enable next generation of affordable small turbine engines for cruise missiles. Activities include: -Engine cycle study to identify promising engine architectures. -Testing compact combustors focused on altitude ignition and operation. -Evaluation of lubrication methods with commercial off-the-shelf bearings -Evaluation of components made from low cost materials Commence demonstration of a multi-fidelity thermal-structural engine design process for reduced computational expenses and increased accuracy for turbine engine structural design. Activities include: -The development of automated processes for non-linear hot to cold geometry generation and analysis inputs. -The overall design process automation and validation.
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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 demonstration of high efficiency, high durability propulsion components tailored for embedded systems. - Finalize manufacturing build parameters for turbines. - Continue engine component validated methodologies trade engine life, cost and performance - Finalize risk-based design system. - Continue development of predictive analysis tools to enable reliable, sufficiently durable component designs enable affordable mass for Autonomous Collaborative Platforms (ACP). - Rapid assessment of as-manufactured parts. - Complete development studies to extend engine operability and efficiency by advancing rules and integrated engine design tools. - Aerodynamic design tools and analysis methods to meet modeling, simulation, and analysis defined capabilities. - Complete design-for-integration and assessment for embedded engines by advancing design activities for distortion tolerant fan components - Transonic fan distortion tolerance and transfer study. - Complete analysis for high lift / high work study. - Reduce turbine stage /blade count. - Complete design of compressors and turbines for limited life and affordability, to enable embedded fan technologies. - Preliminary design review of embedded engine compressor fan module and hardware. - Complete systems engineering & digital engineering frameworks. - Multi-disciplinary design & optimization. - Complete fan module component failure mode investigations. - Fan module testing. - Complete studies of bearings nonoil lubrication. - Design technologies for limited life systems. - Commence new lubrication function higher temperature turbine engine mechanical systems. - Technology development studies for disruptive propulsion for future platforms.
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 | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 41.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 41.5 |
This activity is 50% of project 623066's FY2027 request and 10% of PE 0602203F'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.
10 activities in project 623066
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.