What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 459 of PE 0603055D8Z. 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.
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, Combined, and Coalition commanders operating in homeland and Indo-Pacific theaters. 2. Operationalizing Power ISR: Advancing OE and ISR data fusion to support campaign-level maneuver, targeting, and sustainment across all domains. 3. Energy-Informed Wargaming and Training: Embedding predictive energy analytics into Joint training, wargaming, and OPLAN development to institutionalize OE across readiness and strategic planning cycles. 4. Global Electrical Resilience: Scaling grid-hardening and distributed energy solutions—including post-quantum encrypted data transfer layers—to ensure survivable, secure power across advanced basing, homeland infrastructure, and global operations.
The $0.175M decrease is undertaken in direct support of Executive Order 14222: "Implementing the President's ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ Cost Efficiency Initiative" which prioritizes cost efficiency, transparency, and the consolidation of services. This measure represents a deliberate workforce optimization strategy designed to streamline resources while safeguarding against adverse impacts to modernization initiatives and overall mission effectiveness.
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.
In FY 2026, the OED portfolio continues development of 14 ongoing efforts and initiates 5 new start projects—each designed to scale energy sensing, secure data integration, and decision support across Joint and Service workflows, enabling warfighter-informed planning and resilient energy operations across multiple CCMDs. 1. Integrating Energy Data Across the Force: Delivering a fully integrated energy ecosystem with sensing, metering, real-time analytics, and cyber-secure data exchange at every echelon 2. Predictive Energy Management: Advancing modeling and simulation tools for standardizing OE data, enhancing decision support, and forecasting consumption and resupply for extended-range operations and campaign-level planning across multiple theaters 3. Enterprise Energy Visibility: Scaling digitization of legacy systems and tactical microgrids to ensure complete energy asset visibility across Services, mission partners, and advanced basing nodes in contested Indo-Pacific and homeland environments 4. Resilient Infrastructure and Protection: Hardening electrical systems in forward operating locations and critical homeland infrastructure—including island and atoll environments—using post-quantum encryption to secure energy data and control systems against advanced cyber threat
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 | 50.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 50.7 |
This activity is 100% of project 459's FY2027 request and 31% of PE 0603055D8Z'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 459
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.