What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project MK4 of PE 0602787A. 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.
Will conduct extensive data analysis and documentation of energy field bioeffects modeling, simulation, laboratory and data collection results across biologically relevant scales.
Funding increase reflects partial completion of research activities supporting the comparison of model and laboratory data against real world data.
FY2025–FY2026: what came before
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.
Will expand high-throughput biological effects assessment platforms at multiple scales to accelerate threat characterization; continue building on research within this program and accelerate efforts towards a detailed understanding of biophysical mechanisms (cellular to system level) of adverse bioeffects discovered in prior years; expand efforts studying biophysical theoretical and computational analyses on identified threat mechanisms; continue research on previously developed integrated multi-scale (molecular to organismal) modeling and simulation techniques for enhanced biophysical understanding; assess and document progress and discoveries through the investigation of electromagnetic bioeffects; investigate multiple next generation energy field source technologies for laboratory testing; compare multiple next generation energy field source technologies as components in laboratory experiments to modeling and simulation results; continue to validate expanded efforts in directed energy biological effect modeling and simulation tools based on laboratory results; characterize multiple next generation energy field source technologies as components in outdoor environment; integrate the component technologies necessary to complete laboratory research identified in FY 2025; conduct research in the theory of energy penetration, absorption, coupling through physical structures to identify new physical mechanisms and parameters of interest; evaluate results and execute the validated methods to optimize directed energy coupling, penetration, and absorption in multiple surrogate structures and at relevant protocol levels; continue and expand research to compare biological effects theories, models and laboratory data against real world data; investigate pre-clinical diagnostics methods (imaging, functional testing, biomarkers) for detecting exposure to pathological energy fields; continue to transition information and parameters related to validated energy field threat sources to the DoW community for medical and materiel (sensors/detectors, shielding material) countermeasure development; continue to collaborate with the intelligence community to drive research objectives, support threat assessments, and mitigate technological surprise; continue to transition data on biological mechanisms and effects to DoW community to support research and development efforts for directed energy detection and protection as well as induced injury prevention and treatment.
Will establish comprehensive understanding of biophysical mechanisms (cellular to system level) of adverse bioeffects discovered in prior years; perform characterization of toxicity for new threat mechanisms prioritized from modeling and simulation and intelligence community inputs; continue thorough biophysical theoretical and computational analyses on identified threat mechanisms (acoustic and electromagnetic); establish high-throughput biological effects assessment platforms to accelerate threat characterization; mature threat proxy energy field source technologies for laboratory testing including high frequencies; develop integrated multi-scale (molecular to organismal) modeling and simulation techniques for enhanced biophysical understanding; integrate the component technologies necessary to complete laboratory research identified in FY24; derive and start the validation of methods to optimize directed energy coupling, penetration, and absorption in surrogate structures and at relevant protocol levels; investigate electromagnetic bioeffects; validate directed energy biological effect modeling and simulation tools based on laboratory results; conduct research to compare biological effects theories, models and laboratory data against real world data; identify pre-clinical diagnostics methods (imaging, functional testing, biomarkers) for detecting exposure to pathological energy fields; transition information and parameters related to validated energy field threat sources to the DoD community for medical and materiel (sensors/detectors, shielding material) countermeasure development; continue to collaborate with the intelligence community to drive research objectives, support threat assessments, transition bioeffects data, and mitigate technological surprise; continue to transition data on biological mechanisms and effects to DoD community to support research and development efforts for directed energy detection and protection as well as induced injury prevention and treatment.
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 | 46.2 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 128.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 128.7 |
This activity is 87% of project MK4's FY2027 request and 86% of PE 0602787A'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 MK4
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.