What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 350 of PE 0603680D8Z. 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.
Projects focus on integrating advanced pilot manufacturing equipment over an accelerated schedule. The projects are directed toward additive, digital, material, soft good, photonic, bio-industrial, robotic automation, bio-medical and hybrid electronic manufacturing. The work being conducted will conclude with showcasing new integrated pilot manufacturing capability to the DoW, highlighting point of need manufacturing, prototype production for middle tier acquisition or modernization of a OIB or DIB process.
An increase of $28.040 million between FY 2026 and FY 2027 reflects the re-alignment from digital, materials, photonics textiles and BioIndustrial innovation sub-projects in Manufacturing Innovation Institutes to align with the department’s priorities.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 28.0 |
This activity is 12% of project 350's FY2027 request and 4.8% of PE 0603680D8Z'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.
11 activities in project 350
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.