What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 1396 of PE 0602750N. 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.
- Complete: Identify alternative undersea advanced material hull concepts that have an enhanced resistance to weapon effects and develop a high-fidelity predictive capability (COWER TC/HULC FNC) - Continue: Feasibility and utility studies for next generation undersea submersibles (OEX). - Continue: Applied Research into Own Ship Underwater Electromagnetic signature (OSEM-ML) - Continue: Develop a low signature, widely tunable (HF-SHF), room temperature quantum RF antenna for autonomous platform resilient communications and persistent ISR. (ATOMIC SCEPTER) - Continue: Applied Research of advanced Radome materials and structures (BARREL-I) - Continue: Applied Research into advanced Damage Control Technologies and Fire Suppression (SCORCH)
The increased investment in Platform Design and Engineering from FY2026 to FY2027 will allow for expansion of applied research into advanced damage control and nondestructive technologies.
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: Identify alternative undersea advanced material hull concepts that have an enhanced resistance to weapon effects and develop a high-fidelity predictive capability (COWER TC/HULC FNC) - Continue: Feasibility and utility studies for next generation undersea submersibles (OEX). - Continue: Applied Research into Own Ship Underwater Electromagnetic signature (OSEM-ML) - Continue: Develop a low signature, widely tunable (HF-SHF), room temperature quantum RF antenna for autonomous platform resilient communications and persistent ISR. (ATOMIC SCEPTER) - Initiate: Applied Research of advanced Radome materials and structures (BARREL-I) - Initiate: Applied Research into advanced Damage Control Technologies and Fire Suppression (SCORCH)
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 | 19.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 12.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 24.5 |
This activity is 100% of project 1396's FY2027 request and 8.0% of PE 0602750N'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.
1 activity in project 1396
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.