What project 459 buys
The Operational Energy Dominance (OED) project enhances DoW operational effectiveness through pre-commercial targeted Science & Technology (S&T) investments, transforming energy data into a battlefield advantage across both homeland defense and Indo-Pacific deterrence missions. By embedding energy situational awareness into command and control (C2) architectures, OED enables warfighters to outpace adversaries with smarter, faster decisions in contested environments. The OED portfolio achieves this mission through three strategic thrusts: Collect, Camouflage, and Control. • Collect: OED digitizes legacy power systems (generators, batteries, and distribution nodes), integrating them into the operational data environment to eliminate blind spots and enhance situational awareness while simultaneously developing and deploying first-of-a-kind sensing capabilities to the front lines • Camouflage: OED leverages power intelligence products from the Collect thrust to locate and mitigate threat surfaces within the power systems of critical military systems • Control: OED exploits both power intelligence products and identified threat surfaces to create tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) that expose the pacing threats and deliver overmatch opportunities for U.S. Forces operating in the Indo-Pacific and homeland environments OED portfolio investments yield: 1. Enhanced mission-planning tools with integrated energy analytics 2. Increased operational control of energy assets at every echelon 3. Advanced metering and monitoring across modern and legacy platforms 4. Modeling and simulation tools translating energy impacts into operational outcomes 5. Actionable energy insights informing acquisition, sustainment, and budget decisions 6. Foundational training embedding energy innovation across warfighters and the S&T community All focus areas align with the DoW’s OE Strategy, ensuring energy data informs operations, logistics, and readiness. Program-wide efforts prioritize transparency tools, warfighter inclusion, and subject matter expertise that accelerate the adoption and impact of OECIF investments. FY 2027 priorities emphasize energy technologies that support homeland energy resilience, forward-deployed power awareness, and extended-range operations under contested logistics conditions. There is a classified addendum to this PE.
Project 459 funding, FY2026–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | Enacted | 100.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 50.7 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 51.5 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 52.4 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 53.5 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 54.6 |
1 accomplishment / planned program
The R-2A exhibit — the only level of the budget that describes work that has not happened yet. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only, no five-year plan. Each describes FY2027 work in enough detail to have its own page; the rest are shown here in full. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
In FY 2027, OED continues operational energy integration by scaling global reach, institutionalizing decision tools, and strengthening survivability across strategic theaters: 1. Scaling Enterprise-Wide Energy Visibility (EWEV): Expanding OE data integration across JADC2 workflows, enabling a unified operational energy picture for Joint…
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