# Project 459 — Operational Energy Dominance

**Program element:** 0603055D8Z — Operational Energy Capability Improvement  
**Project:** 459  
**Component:** Defense-Wide  
**Appropriation:** 0400 — RDT&E, Defense-Wide  
**Budget Activity:** 3 — Advanced Technology Development  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603055D8Z/459  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603055D8Z

## Summary

Project 459 — Operational Energy Dominance requests $50.7M in FY2027, 31% of the $165.1M requested for program element 0603055D8Z, down 50% on FY2026. 1 R-2A activity decomposes the request.

## Funding profile

| 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 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0603055D8Z; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## 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.

## Activities (R-2A) — 1

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operational Energy Dominance | — | 50.9 | 50.7 | −0% | [a0](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603055D8Z/459/a0) |

> Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan. In the request year they partition this project exactly; in earlier years they can under-cover it.

### Operational Energy Dominance

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…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603055D8Z/459/a0

## What is NOT on this page

Congressional marks, the R-2 mission description and acquisition strategy, the industry vs government split of the whole request, and related program elements are recorded at **program-element** grain — an NDAA mark lands on a PE, never on a project. They are at https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603055D8Z.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0603055D8Z project 459 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0603055D8Z")`.

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