What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 377 of PE 0603375D8Z. 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.
The requested funding will enable the continuation, maturation, and validation of numerous research lines of effort that are building on work accomplished in FY 2024, FY 2025, and FY 2026 to safeguard our service members against AHI. The efforts work across medical research, detection, sensing, countermeasures, and attribution technical areas, and together will provide protection against this asymmetric threat and reestablish deterrence by minimizing threat impacts.
The increase of $28.472 million between FY 2026 and FY 2027 is due to an internal funding realignment within the Critical Technologies portfolio. This funding increase supports high-priority DoW research for AHI.
FY2025: what came before
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
Using equipment and instrumentation purchased and the research capabilities developed in FY 2024, perform novel research and evaluate the scientific and physics basis for certain hypotheses related to plausible mechanisms associated with the AHI phenomenon. Develop enhanced bioeffects testing and continue development and testing of countermeasures.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 56.2 |
| FY2027 | Request | 84.7 |
This activity is 11% of project 377's FY2027 request and 8.6% of PE 0603375D8Z'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.
3 activities in project 377
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.