How much funding did Biotechnology for Materials - Advanced Research get in the FY2027 budget request?

The U.S. Army requested $22.4M for Biotechnology for Materials - Advanced Research in fiscal year 2027 under RDT&E program element 0603386A (Budget Activity 3).

Biotechnology for Materials - Advanced Research · PE 0603386A Budget (FY2027)

FY2027 Request

$22.4M

▼ 9.2% vs FY2026

FY2026 Enacted

$24.7M

▼ 30% vs FY2025

FY2025 Actual

$35.0M

Prior year

For fiscal year 2027, the U.S. Army is requesting $22.4M for Biotechnology for Materials - Advanced Research under RDT&E program element 0603386A, down 9.2% from FY2026.

Funding trajectory

Funding profile, 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.

Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)

Fiscal Year	Estimate Type	Amount ($M)
FY2025	Actual	35.0
FY2026	Enacted	24.7
FY2027	Request	22.4
FY2028	Outyear	23.9
FY2029	Outyear	24.1
FY2030	Outyear	24.3
FY2031	Outyear	24.6

Where it sits

Acquisition lifecycle

This program is funded in RDT&E Budget Activity 3 — Advanced Technology Development.

Complete

Research

BA 1–2

Current

Advanced Technology

BA 3

Later

Prototyping

BA 4

Later

Development & Fielding

BA 5–7

Inside the program element

1 project rolls up into PE 0603386A

Projects are the summable leaves — the PE total is their sum, never added to it. Program elements and projects carry the full five-year plan; activities stop at the budget year. This PE moves -9% overall, which can hide much larger swings below.

Project CP7

Biotechnology Demonstration and Evaluation

$22.4MFY2027 request ▼ 9%

FY2025 actual$35.0M

FY2026 enacted$24.7M

FY2027 request$22.4M

This project collaborates with Joint Service partners to mature, optimize, and demonstrate novel biotechnologies and related methods to establish a domestic resilient supply chain for defense needs. Advanced research validates and provides bio-derived, bio-functionalized, and bio-manufactured materials. This project matures and demonstrates high-throughput screening and small-scale prototyping, enhances material performance, and exploits biotechnologies to provide drop-in replacements and materials with enhanced properties for defense applications. Areas of focus may include high-density, high-performance fuels for high-speed weapons, bio-based propellants, optical materials, and bio-derived systems that sense and respond to the presence of contaminants. Work in this project compliments Program Element (PE) 0602386A (Biotechnology for Materials - Applied Research) / CP6 (Foundational Biotechnology Design and Dev).

Accomplishments / planned programs (R-2A) — prior, current and budget year only

Biosynthetic Material Demonstration▼ 9%

FY2025 actual$35.0M

FY2026 enacted$24.7M

FY2027 request$22.4M

Will optimize and transition hypersonic fuels for scaled biomanufacturing; optimize and transition bio-manufacturing process development for domestic production of high temperature-resistant bio-manufactured materials necessary for new hypersonic defense systems; continue to mature aircraft transparency biomanufacturing for reduced…

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Congressional action

Congressional marks

Committee marks on the FY2027 request. Adds and cuts are reconciled in conference before they become law.

RequestPresident's Budget

$22.4M

House NDAA (HASC)HASC

$22.4M full · +$0

Senate NDAA (SASC)SASC

$22.4M full · +$0

House Approps (HAC-D)HAC_D

$28.4M +$6.0M · +27%

▲ $6.0M chamber gap — unresolved as of 2026-07-27. These are FY2027 authorization marks (NDAA); appropriations and the conference agreement may differ.

Program detail

Mission & acquisition strategy

This Program Element (PE) matures and demonstrates novel biotechnological methods, processes, and materials to enhance military supply chain resilience. The Army is responsible for centrally managing funding for Tri-Service Biotechnology for a Resilient Supply Chain (T-BRSC) efforts. T-BRSC leverages bio-industrial manufacturing to ensure critical domestic supply chain resilience for defense needs through domestic production of raw materials and critical products. The Army supports this Tri-Service effort under this PE with collaboration among sister Services and select allied partners to support a robust pipeline for biotechnology related manufacturing.

Project CP7 — Biotechnology Demonstration and Evaluation

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Sources

FY2027 Department of the Army RDT&E Budget Justification · Exhibits R-2 / R-3 · PE 0603386A (President's Budget PB2027) — and FY2027 NDAA committee marks, as tracked 2026-07-27.

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