# Environmental Restoration (ER)

**R-2A activity** of project 470 — Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP)  
**Program element:** 0603716D8Z — Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP)  
**Component:** Defense-Wide · **Budget Activity:** 3  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603716D8Z/470/a0  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603716D8Z

## Summary

This activity requests $17.8M in FY2027, 29% of project 470, up 12% on FY2026. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2025–FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2027 planned work.** New projects will examine characterization and treatment of biosolids impacted with PFAS. Ongoing projects will continue to develop rapid, on-site sensors for detecting PFAS in soils and water, and further improve our understanding of the ecological toxicity of PFAS in the environment. Development will continue on advancing our ability to treat PFAS in concrete and asphalt, and further understanding PFAS-impacted microplastics in stormwater and groundwater.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** The FY 2026 to FY 2027 increase of $1.955 million reflects a programmed increase for improved sensors for analysis of PFAS in the field and for improved PFAS treatment and destruction technologies.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** New projects will develop rapid, on-site sensors for detecting PFAS in soils and water. Additional projects will address ecological toxicity data gaps for PFAS identified during the SERDP & ESTCP 2024 Ecotoxicity Workshop. Development continues for PFAS destruction technologies that avoid the costs of pump-and-treat methods or off-site disposal. Ongoing studies improve the understanding of PFAS transport and treatment in concrete and asphalt, advance the science of PFAS fate and transport, and develop methods for treating PFAS-impacted microplastics in stormwater and groundwater.

**FY2025 accomplishments.** Development of PFAS destruction technologies, both thermal and non-thermal, will continue, with an increased emphasis on technologies for in situ destruction of PFAS and aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF) residue that avoided the expense of pump-and-treat methods. Studies of the ecological impacts of PFAS mixtures initiated in FY 2022 continued. New projects will be initiated to better understand the underlying science of PFAS fate and destruction and to detect and treat PFAS-impacted microplastics in stormwater and groundwater.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 17.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 15.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 17.8 |

> Prior, current and budget year only — an R-2A activity carries no five-year plan. It sums exactly into its project in the request year and not necessarily in any other.

## Other activities in project 470

- [Weapons Systems and Platforms (WP)](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603716D8Z/470/a3) — FY2027 22.6
- [Natural Hazards and Installation Resilience (NHIR)](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603716D8Z/470/a2) — FY2027 18.8
- Munitions Response (MR) — FY2027 1.5

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0603716D8Z project 470 (PB PB2027). Narrative is the government's own text.
- **No marks, no contractors at this grain** — congressional marks land on the program element and R-3 performers on the project.
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_activity`.

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