# Social Sciences for Environmental Security — Program Element 0602675D8Z

**Program element:** 0602675D8Z  
**Component:** Defense-Wide  
**Appropriation:** 0400 — RDT&E, Defense-Wide  
**Budget Activity:** 2 — Applied Research  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602675D8Z

## Summary

Defense-Wide requests $0.0M in FY2027.

## Funding profile

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 3.8 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 0.0 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 0.0 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 0.0 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 0.0 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 0.0 |

> Estimate types are not summed — the profile mixes actuals, enacted law, the request, and outyear projections.

## Projects (1)

| Project | Title | FY2025 actual | FY2026 enacted | FY2027 request | Move |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 046 | Providing Research and End-user Products to Accelerate Readiness and Environmental Security (PREPARES) | 3.8 | 0.0 | — | — |

> Projects are the summable leaves: the program element total is their sum, never added to it.

### Project 046 — Providing Research and End-user Products to Accelerate Readiness and Environmental Security (PREPARES)

This program leveraged and integrated expertise from operational end users, physical climate scientists and models, tools, and datasets, and social scientists with deep understanding of designated regional and local communities to anticipate and respond more quickly and precisely to climate and environmental change risks and opportunities. The program explored how specific environmental and social indicators might inform strategic reviews to adapt warfighter training and planning in anticipation of climate global trends. The research program built upon the products of the Minerva Research Initiative with a focus on end-user defined mission, geographic, and timescale priorities to forecast local and regional climate and environmental change effects, assess and predict likely societal impacts and responses, and ultimately provide operations planners technically-relevant and operationally precise scenarios to incorporate into Contingency Plans (CONPLANs) and Operational Plans (OPLANs) and Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) requirements related to climate change.

| Activity (R-2A) | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Providing Research and End-user Products to Accelerate Readiness and Environmental Security (PREPARES) | 3.8 | 0.0 | — |

> R-2A activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan. Coverage is partial, so count them, never total them.

## Mission & acquisition strategy

This program supports the Department's initiative to Build Sustainable and Long-Term Advantage. This program funds Department of War (DoW) physical climate and social science applied research. Climate and environmental change will impact the full range of U.S. military operating environments. DoW capabilities, until recently, have been aligned toward the historical environmental and geopolitical record; failure to anticipate and plan for the security effects of climate and environmental change holds significant potential to not only degrade DoW readiness and effectiveness but also compound the frequency and scope of novel geostrategic risks and surprises.

## Related program elements

- [0603273N — Science & Technology for Nuclear Re-entry Systems](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603273N) (Navy)
- [0601102A — Defense Research Sciences](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601102A) (Army)
- [0601275A — Electronic Warfare Basic Research](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601275A) (Army)
- [0204571N — Consolidated Trng Sys Dev](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0204571N) (Navy)

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-3, PE 0602675D8Z (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0602675D8Z")`.

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