# 3) Forge High Performance Computing

**R-2A activity** of project EN3 — Enabling Investments (ATD)  
**Program element:** 0603384BP — Chemical and Biological Defense Program - Advanced Development  
**Component:** Defense-Wide · **Budget Activity:** 3  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603384BP/EN3/a2  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603384BP/EN3

> **NEW START.** $60.0M requested in FY2027 with no prior-year and no current-year funding.

## Summary

This activity requests $60.0M in FY2027, 67% of project EN3 — a new start with no prior-year and no current-year money. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2027 planned work.** - Significantly scale the on premise and cloud compute capacity across different classification levels. - Work across interagency to create unified, AI-ready, and scalable data architecture and ecosystem. Ingest government, public, and private datasets into an High Performance Computing (HPC) environment. - Develop advanced AI tools and agents to accelerate innovative CBRND capabilities.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** FY 2027 increased resources design and build out of computing resources for CBRND Biosurveillance and Deterrence missions, implementation of architecture and integration of relevant interagency data, and multiple experimentation and prototyping activities, utilizing industry and CBDP Science & Technology developed AI and Machine Learning (ML) capabilities.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2027 | Request | 60.0 |

> 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.

## Other activities in project EN3

- [2) CBRND Forward Element Experimentation and Prototyping](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603384BP/EN3/a1) — FY2027 11.0
- 1) Biological Warfare Defense Prophylaxis — FY2027 7.5
- 4) Advanced Technology Demonstration — FY2027 6.2
- 5) Technology Concepts — FY2027 2.6
- 6) User Assessment — FY2027 2.0

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0603384BP project EN3 (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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