What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project DS7 of PE 0603461A. 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 continue to provide direct support to 100's of DoW research, development, test, and evaluation projects by assessing and integrating advanced technologies in high-performance computing systems. Will enable DoW projects access to 26, or more, high-performance computers across a full range of classifications at five geographically distributed DoW supercomputing resource centers collectively providing over 150 quadrillion floating-point operations/calculations per second of compute capability. Will continue to conduct physics-driven, interdisciplinary, large-scale scientific and engineering simulations and analyses that mature and demonstrate capabilities for important DoW research, development, and test priorities. Will integrate advanced technologies for data-intensive computing, persistent data services, and data archiving/retrieval for artificial intelligence/machine learning and other DoW use cases employing large volumes of data (over 350 quadrillion bytes in total). Will transition technologies for accelerating computations and sharing of highly classified high-end computers among multiple special programs. Will mature technologies for seamless access to resources across DoW Supercomputing Resource Centers and transparent interfaces with cloud computing services for those DoW projects that demand a hybrid compute capability. Will mature and transition advanced technologies to enable supercomputing capabilities to support technology transition efforts in acquisition engineering and international collaboration while protecting sensitive data and information.
Funding decrease reduces support for high-end computational capabilities at DoW Supercomputing Resource Centers with decreased focus on advancing artificial intelligence capability and enabling cloud computing.
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.
Provides direct support to 100's of DoW research, development, test, and evaluation projects by assessing and integrating advanced technologies in high-performance computing systems. Enables DoW projects access to 24 or more high-performance computers across a full range of classifications at five geographically distributed DoW supercomputing resource centers collectively providing over 125 quadrillion floating-point operations/calculations per second of compute capability. Continue to conduct physics-driven, interdisciplinary, large-scale scientific and engineering simulations and analyses that mature and demonstrate capabilities for important DoW research, development, and test priorities. Continues to mature and transition emerging technologies for data-intensive computing, persistent data services, and data archiving/retrieval for artificial intelligence/machine learning and other DoW use cases employing large volumes of data (over 300 quadrillion bytes in total). Continues to research and mature new technologies for accelerating computations and sharing of highly classified high-end computers among multiple special programs. Continues to research and demonstrate seamless access to resources across DoW Supercomputing Resource Centers and transparent interfaces with cloud computing services for those DoW projects that demand a hybrid compute capability. Continue to assess and develop new technologies that enable supercomputing capabilities to support technology transition efforts in acquisition engineering and international collaboration while protecting sensitive data and information.
Matured and demonstrated 24 or more high-end computers across a full range of classifications at five geographically distributed DoD supercomputing resource centers to collectively provide over 120 quadrillion floating-point operations/calculations per second of capability. Continue to conduct complex, highly-coupled, large-scale, scientific and engineering simulations and analyses that mature and demonstrate capabilities for important DoD research, development, and test priorities. Continue to mature and demonstrate data-intensive computing, persistent data services, and data archiving/retrieval for artificial intelligence/machine learning and other DoD use cases employing large volumes of data (over 250 quadrillion bytes in total). Continue to mature new technologies for accelerating computations and sharing of highly classified high-end computers among multiple special programs. Continue to mature and demonstrate seamless access to resources across DSRCs and transparent interfaces with cloud computing services for those DoD entities that demand a hybrid compute capability. Implemented new high-end computing capabilities to support technology transition efforts in acquisition engineering and international collaboration.
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 | 136.9 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 132.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 125.0 |
This activity is 58% of project DS7's FY2027 request and 58% of PE 0603461A'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 DS7
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.