What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 1050 of PE 0603680N. 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.
- Continue to develop and transition composites manufacturing technology improvements that result in expanded through-put, affordability, and enhanced capability for key platforms: VCS/CLB, DDG 51, CVN 78, F-35, and PEO IWS systems. - Continue composites efforts in support of key platforms in technology areas including in support of key platforms in technology areas including hypersonic radomes, undersea coatings, thermoplastic materials, polymer molding, fiber composite processing, bio-composites, and rotor blades. - Complete composites efforts in technology areas such as fuel bladder technologies, non-destructive inspection of coatings, and insulation. - Initiate composites efforts in support of key platforms in technology areas such as composite and non-metallic materials processing and fabrication. - Initiate efforts in energetics manufacturing technology that result in expanded through-put, affordability, and enhanced capability. Technology areas include critical chemicals, additive manufacturing, and robotics and automation for munitions production and energetic materials fabrication.
There is no significant funding change between FY2026 and FY2027.
FY2026: the year under way
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.
- Complete composites efforts in support of key platforms in technology areas including machining of carbon-carbon composites and in adhesive bonding. - Continue to develop and transition composites manufacturing technology improvements that result in expanded through-put, affordability, and enhanced capability for key platforms: VCS/CLB, DDG 51, CVN 78, F-35, and PEO IWS systems. - Continue to develop and transition composites manufacturing technology improvements that accelerate capability to the fleet based on DoW Critical Technology areas. Areas of concentration include (1) unmanned/autonomous vehicle production, (2) advanced submarine technology fabrication, (3) sustainment technology, (4) hypersonics production, and (5) other ONR manufacturing maturation efforts. This includes technology areas including fuel bladder technologies, polymer molding, insulation, non-destructive inspection of coatings, fiber composite processing, and bio-composites. - Initiate projects in support of key platforms in technology areas including hypersonic radomes, undersea coatings, thermoplastic materials, and rotor blades.
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 | 8.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 16.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 16.2 |
This activity is 20% of project 1050's FY2027 request and 20% of PE 0603680N'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.
4 activities in project 1050
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.