What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 0000 of PE 0602236N. 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 have Science Advisors (SA) working across the NRE to help shape the DON investment strategy in science and technology. They work to develop relationships that support rapid prototyping, experimentation, and transitioning technology, based on the requirements and needs of the Fleet / Force. Continue communication and collaboration between the warfighters, the Naval Research & Development Enterprise, and strategic development commands. With their efforts and deep understanding of operational needs, vast collaborative network within the NRE, NR&DE, industry, and academia, ONR Global Science Advisors will connect S&T products to operational needs and directly support transition of capabilities that deliver desired solutions for Navy and Marine Corps warfighters. ONR Global continues to objectively assess placement of current Science Advisors and requests for additional support in terms of impact to the Fleet and S&T return on investment. - Continue to utilize PhD-level civilian and military scientists searching the globe for emerging scientific research and promising technologies that could be invested in with the goal of solving DON S&T challenges. These investments will provide global S&T awareness to reduce the risk of potential technological surprise and supported theater security cooperation goals to sustain cooperative relationships with an expanding set of international allies and partners. These efforts will be accomplished by collaborating with organizations and researchers through liaison/ exchange visits, conferences and workshops, and grants in innovative applied research. Science Directors can identify research areas and early developmental technologies that may evolve to have a significant capability solution for Navy and Marine Corps warfighters. - Continue to support international engagements with key allies and partners to identify common requirements and areas of work that can be leveraged to improve the capabilities of Sailors and Marines. Continuing working with 10 key allies and partners to complete performance requirements review meetings, build data sharing and exchange agreement, and create future cooperative project agreements. Also work to identify common goals and requirements for three multi-lateral groups, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), in order to increase collective Naval capability, capacity, and interoperability. Continue looking at other international allies and partners for future capability-based relationships that could have a significant improvement on warfighter interoperability and capacity.
Not applicable.
The decrease in funding from FY 2026 to FY2027 to realign resources towards higher priority science and technology (S&T) initiatives.
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 have Science Advisors (SA) working across the NRE to help shape the DON investment strategy in science and technology. They work to develop relationships that support rapid prototyping, experimentation, and transitioning technology, based on the requirements and needs of the Fleet / Force. Continue communication and collaboration between the warfighters, the Naval Research & Development Enterprise, and strategic development commands. With their efforts and deep understanding of operational needs, vast collaborative network within the NRE, NR&DE, industry, and academia, ONR Global Science Advisors will connect S&T products to operational needs and directly support transition of capabilities that deliver desired solutions for Navy and Marine Corps warfighters. ONR Global continues to objectively assess placement of current Science Advisors and requests for additional support in terms of impact to the Fleet and S&T return on investment. - Continue to utilize PhD-level civilian and military scientists searching the globe for emerging scientific research and promising technologies that could be invested in with the goal of solving DON S&T challenges. These investments will provide global S&T awareness to reduce the risk of potential technological surprise and supported theater security cooperation goals to sustain cooperative relationships with an expanding set of international allies and partners. These efforts will be accomplished by collaborating with organizations and researchers through liaison/ exchange visits, conferences and workshops, and grants in innovative applied research. Science Directors can identify research areas and early developmental technologies that may evolve to have a significant capability solution for Navy and Marine Corps warfighters. - Continue to support international engagements with key allies and partners to identify common requirements and areas of work that can be leveraged to improve the capabilities of Sailors and Marines. Continuing working with 10 key allies and partners to complete performance requirements review meetings, build data sharing and exchange agreement, and create future cooperative project agreements. Also work to identify common goals and requirements for three multi-lateral groups, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), in order to increase collective Naval capability, capacity, and interoperability. Continue looking at other international allies and partners for future capability-based relationships that could have a significant improvement on warfighter interoperability and capacity.
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 | 22.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 22.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 17.7 |
This activity is 29% of project 0000's FY2027 request and 29% of PE 0602236N'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.
7 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.