What project 633946 buys
This project develops and demonstrates advanced materials and processing technologies for fielded and planned Department of the Air Force weapon, airframe, aerospace structure, protection, and propulsion applications. Advanced materials and processes that have matured beyond applied research are characterized, critical data are collected, and critical evaluations in the proposed operating environment are performed. This design and scale-up data improves the overall affordability of promising materials and processing technologies, providing needed initial incentives for their industrial development.
Project 633946 funding, FY2025–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) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 13.1 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 15.1 |
| FY2027 | Request | 0.0 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 0.0 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 0.0 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 0.0 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 0.0 |
2 accomplishments / planned programs
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. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
FY2027 planned work In FY 2027, the Air Vehicle Materials Technologies effort and associated plans & funding transferred within this Program Element to Project 632100/ Materials for Electromagnetic Spectrum Resilience and Mission Survivability to provide Congress with improved understanding and traceability of the materials technology areas in Research, Development, Test & Evaluation (RDT&E), Air Force, Budget Activity (BA) 3.
FY2026 to FY2027 change FY 2027 funding compared to FY 2026 decreased by $6.697 million due to the transfer of the Air Vehicle Materials Technologies effort and associated funding within this Project 632100/ Materials for Electromagnetic Spectrum Resilience and Mission Survivability to provide Congress with improved understanding and traceability of the discrete materials technology areas in Research, Development, Test & Evaluation (RDT&E), Air Force, Budget Activity (BA) 3.
FY2026 plans — current year - Continue the development and characterization of materials for next-generation electromagnetic protection. - Commence the development and transition of materials and processes for minimizing electromagnetic interference in systems with minimal performance degradation.
FY2027 planned work In FY 2027, the Counter Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Technologies effort and associated plans & funding transferred within this Program Element to Project 632100/ Materials for Electromagnetic Spectrum Resilience and Mission Survivability to provide Congress with improved understanding and traceability of the materials technology areas in Research, Development, Test & Evaluation (RDT&E), Air Force, Budget Activity (BA) 3.
FY2026 to FY2027 change FY 2027 funding compared to FY 2026 decreased by $5.938 million due to the transfer of the Counter Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Technologies effort and associated funding within this Project 632100/ Materials for Electromagnetic Spectrum Resilience and Mission Survivability, to provide Congress with improved understanding and traceability of the discrete materials technology areas in Research, Development, Test & Evaluation (RDT&E), Air Force, Budget Activity (BA) 3.
FY2026 plans — current year - Continue developmental efforts in counter ISR technologies across multiple collection domains in a tactically coordinated way that considers all relevant operational environments. Evaluate first generation prototypes in the laboratory environment; passing that test, perform operationally relevant environment testing. - Continue the development of a closed-loop simulation in a digital test environment with a human in the loop and quantify the utility of techniques incorporating cost, size, weight and power requirements to obscure operations. - Commence the development of new methods and materials to allow ruggedization of deliverables for all relevant environments; emphasize improvements…