What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project CP7 of PE 0603386A. 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.
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 logistics; optimize and transition biobased energetics for scaled biomanufacturing; optimize and transition biomanufactured charcoal in main gun tests; demonstrate a biobased multiplexed sensor to detect multiple heavy metal in water for point-of-need water safety/quality testing in denied combat operational areas; optimize, demonstrate and transition reduced logistics through agile bio cementation technology for expeditionary flight-line, taxiway, rotary aircraft pads, and base logistic foundations; optimize and demonstrate bio-derived optical materials for agile laser protection of military goggles, vision blocks, and sensor systems.
FY 2027 funding decrease due to reduction in testing and prototypes.
FY2025–FY2026: 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.
Will continue to optimize and the scale-up production of biomolecules for use as energetic materials in hypersonic systems at volumes suitable for advanced prototyping and testing; validate the performance of these materials to support enhanced weapon systems range, increased speeds, potential reusability, and supply security on relevant platforms. Will continue to mature and demonstrate the bio-manufacturing process development for domestic production of high temperature-resistant bio-manufactured materials necessary for new hypersonic defense systems and fire-resistant casings for munitions and energy storage. Will demonstrate the ability to capture rare earth elements using a bioderived extraction and separation process. Will mature and demonstrate the scale-up of bioderived energetic materials and test prototype kinetic energy and chemical energy munition system capabilities. Will continue to optimize the in-line analysis of fermentation products through biomaterial machine vision; improve the performance of high throughput strain screening and purification, downstream fermentation, bio-standards validation, and scale-up through biomaterial prototyping. Will demonstrate a biomanufacturing capability to enable bioderived cellulose at scale for diverse applications as energetic propellant ingredients and textile fibers. Will continue to demonstrate a bio-based capability to sense and detect heavy metal in water for point-of-need water safety/quality testing in denied combat operational areas. Will continue the demonstration of bio-manufactured aviation and ground vehicle critical materials from in-theater waste streams; optimize the organic solution to provide fuel in theater to maintain a capable fighting force and persist inside actively contested spaces from a sustainable and secure production system. Will continue the demonstration of reduced logistics through agile bio cementation technology for expeditionary flight-line, taxiway, rotary aircraft pads, and base logistic foundations. Will demonstrate bio-derived optical materials for agile laser protection of military goggles, vision blocks, and sensor systems. Will prototype and test bioderived non-lethal vessel stopping technology to aid in threat vessel interdiction.
Will optimize the in-line analysis of fermentation products through biomaterial machine vision; improve the performance of high throughput strain screening and purification, downstream fermentation, bio-standards validation, and scale-up through biomaterial prototyping. Continue the scale-up production of biomolecules for use as energetic materials in hypersonic systems at volumes suitable for advanced prototyping and testing; validate the performance of these materials to support enhanced weapon systems range, increased speeds, potential reusability, and supply security on relevant platforms. Continue to mature and demonstrate the bio-manufacturing process development for domestic production of high temperature-resistant bio-manufactured materials necessary for new hypersonic defense systems, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and fire-resistant casings for munitions. Demonstrate bio-based non-hazardous paint removal cleaning solvent for aircraft, ships, and ground vehicle systems. Demonstrate a bio-based capability to sense and detect heavy metal in water for point-of-need water safety/quality testing in denied combat operational areas. Continue the demonstration of bio-manufactured aviation and ground vehicle critical materials from in-theater waste streams; optimize the organic solution to provide fuel in theater to maintain a capable fighting force and persist inside actively contested spaces from a sustainable and secure production system. Continue the demonstration of reduced logistics through agile biocementation technology for expeditionary flight-line, taxiway, rotary aircraft pads, and base logistic foundations. Demonstrate bio-derived optical materials for agile laser protection of military goggles, vision blocks, and sensor systems.
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 | 35.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 24.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 22.4 |
This activity is 100% of project CP7's FY2027 request and 100% of PE 0603386A'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.
1 activity in project CP7
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 program-element page.