What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 890 of PE 0602890D8Z. 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.
High Energy Laser Technology: Efforts will continue the development of technologies that improve component-level performance and enable fieldable directed energy systems. Some of these include: cameras, illuminators, fast-steering mirrors, deformable mirrors, and high-power coatings necessary for advanced prototypes. Continue leveraging government and industry labs to perform proof of concept technology demonstrations. High Power Microwave Technology: Efforts will continue to study high power microwave effects and techniques for improved lethality and, in turn, develop high power microwave sources with agile waveforms. Efforts will utilize government and industry labs to perform proof of concept technology demonstrations. The effort will investigate next-generation, high-power, multi-frequency antenna and propagation approaches for agile waveforms, as well as next-generation pulsed power concepts that lead to improved size, weight, power, and scalability. This includes the development of high power microwave radiation sources to achieve higher power levels, increase manufacturing producibility, and improve military readiness. Modeling and Simulation: Efforts will continue to advance models for technology trade studies to guide research and development, enable systems engineering, and support mission-level modeling.
The increase of $3.298 million between FY 2026 and FY 2027 is due to budget fluctuations.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
High Energy Laser Technology: Develop technologies that improve component-level performance and enable fieldable directed energy systems. Some of these include: cameras, illuminators, fast-steering mirrors, deformable mirrors, and high-power coatings needed for advanced prototypes such as the Joint Laser Weapon System. Utilize government and industry labs to perform proof of concept tech demonstrations. High Power Microwave Technology: Study high power microwave effects and techniques for improved lethality and, in turn, develop high power microwave sources with agile waveforms. Effort will utilize government and industry labs to perform proof of concept technology demonstrations. The effort will investigate next-generation, high-power, multi-frequency antenna and propagation approaches for agile waveforms, as well as next-generation pulsed power concepts that lead to improved size, weight, power, and scalability. This includes the development of high power microwave radiation sources to achieve higher power levels, increase manufacturing producibility, and improve military readiness. Modeling and Simulation: Effort will advance models for technology trade studies to guide research and development, enable systems engineering, and support mission-level modeling.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | Enacted | 47.1 |
| FY2027 | Request | 50.4 |
This activity is 100% of project 890's FY2027 request and 100% of PE 0602890D8Z'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.
2 activities in project 890
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 program-element page.