What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 2912 of PE 0603123N. 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.
Continue: - Development of Advanced Naval Power Systems: Crewed and Uncrewed Naval Platforms demand high power/energy density, integrated modular power systems that require very low maintenance (people and cost), low fuel consumption, and highly resilient operation for extended mission duration. - Efforts associated with Next Strategic Technology Evaluation Program (NextSTEP) (formerly Energy Systems Technology Evaluation Program (ESTEP)), a prototype viability assessment program at naval facilities that promotes adoption, scaling and deployment to the warfighter of defense and dual-use technologies with the following goals: conduct advanced technology demonstrations to evaluate emerging technologies using Navy and Marine Corps operations as test beds; evaluate and de-risk new prototype technologies to help enable their acquisition and adoption; and provide opportunities for professional development for DON personnel. - Development and demonstration of the capability to condition and de-risk the large volume of combustible and toxic gas resulting from battery thermal runaway events to allow for safe transport of gasses off platforms. - Gas Conditioning of Battery Thermal Runaway Events - Development of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies: Advanced Manufacturing efforts supporting readiness for undersea operations. This includes corrosion, inspection and automation. - Development of Advanced Manufacturing technologies in support of Next-Gen Naval Platforms. This will require new processes, automation and advanced digital tools at a high Manufacturing readiness level to meet the required platform performance requirements for new systems. - Development of rapid qualification tools, including automation and accelerated testing for increased manufacturability. - Sustainment Technology efforts to mature materials state awareness for uncrewed and undersea systems for low/no maintenance operations and increased resiliency. - Efforts on Advanced Platform Resilience focusing on the integration of extensible sets of advanced technologies to improve the efficiency, performance, and survivability of naval platforms and systems. - Development of Advanced Platform Architectures: This effort focuses on developing a design and capability assessment frameworks for the integration of complex sets of component technologies into a platform capability and/or subsystem in support of next generation autonomous and reduce crew platforms compliment platforms to achieve optimal military utility. - Efforts on Advanced Platform Autonomy focusing on the integration of advanced autonomy and artificial intelligence into naval systems and component technologies designed to improve warfighter and platform performance and efficiencies. - Efforts associated with undersea systems focused on at-sea testing and integration of undersea weapons technologies. - Development of Schottky Barrier for Commercial High Temperature Polymer Films with a 2D Nano-assembly Coating
The FY2026 and FY2027 increase is due to additional investments in the Power & Energy focus area, specifically in the NextSTEP and Naval Power Systems focus areas.
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.
Continue: - Development of Advanced Naval Power Systems: Crewed and Uncrewed Naval Platforms demand high power/energy density, integrated modular power systems that require very low maintenance (people and cost), low fuel consumption, and highly resilient operation for extended mission duration. - Efforts associated with Next Strategic Technology Evaluation Program (NextSTEP) (formerly Energy Systems Technology Evaluation Program (ESTEP)), a prototype viability assessment program at naval facilities that promotes adoption, scaling and deployment to the warfighter of defense and dual-use technologies with the following goals: conduct advanced technology demonstrations to evaluate emerging technologies using Navy and Marine Corps operations as test beds; evaluate and de-risk new prototype technologies to help enable their acquisition and adoption; and provide opportunities for professional development for DON personnel. - Development of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies: Advanced Manufacturing efforts supporting readiness for undersea operations. This includes corrosion, inspection and automation. - Development of Advanced Manufacturing technologies in support of Next-Gen Naval Platforms. This will require new processes, automation and advanced digital tools at a high Manufacturing readiness level to meet the required platform performance requirements for new systems. - Efforts on Advanced Platform Resilience focusing on the integration of extensible sets of advanced technologies to improve the efficiency, performance, and survivability of naval platforms and systems. - Efforts associated with undersea systems. Initiate: - Development and demonstration of the capability to condition and derisk the large volume of combustible and toxic gas resulting from battery thermal runaway events to allow for safe transport of gasses off platforms. - Development of rapid qualification tools, including automation and accelerated testing for increased manufacturability. - Sustainment Technology efforts to mature materials state awareness for uncrewed systems for low/no maintenance operations and increased resiliency. - Development of Advanced Platform Architectures: This effort focuses on developing a design and capability assessment frameworks for the integration of complex sets of component technologies into a platform capability and/or subsystem in support of next generation autonomous and reduce crew platforms compliment platforms to achieve optimal military utility. - Efforts on Advanced Platform Autonomy focusing on the integration of advanced autonomy and artificial intelligence into naval systems and component technologies designed to improve warfighter and platform performance and efficiencies. - Efforts associated with undersea systems focused on at-sea testing and integration of undersea weapons technologies. - Schottky Barrier for Commercial High Temperature Polymer Films with a 2D Nano-assembly Coating project.
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) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 25.6 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 24.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 30.2 |
This activity is 59% of project 2912's FY2027 request and 59% of PE 0603123N'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.
4 activities in project 2912
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.