# Operational Energy Dominance

**R-2A activity** of project 459 — Operational Energy Dominance  
**Program element:** 0603055D8Z — Operational Energy Capability Improvement  
**Component:** Defense-Wide · **Budget Activity:** 3  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603055D8Z/459/a0  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603055D8Z/459

## Summary

This activity requests $50.7M in FY2027, 100% of project 459, down 0.3% on FY2026. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2026–FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2027 planned work.** 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.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** 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.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** 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

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | Enacted | 50.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 50.7 |

> Prior, current and budget year only — an R-2A activity carries no five-year plan. It sums exactly into its project in the request year and not necessarily in any other.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0603055D8Z project 459 (PB PB2027). Narrative is the government's own text.
- **No marks, no contractors at this grain** — congressional marks land on the program element and R-3 performers on the project.
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_activity`.

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