# Natural Hazards and Installation Resilience (NHIR)

**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/a2  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603716D8Z

## Summary

This activity requests $18.8M in FY2027, 31% of project 470, down 3.3% 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 be initiated to advance modeling of compounded hazards and their impacts on interdependent systems, including transportation and power systems, that support installations. Additional projects will continue to support understanding of rapid ecosystem transformations (fire, permafrost thaw, invasive species) on installations that disrupt military operations and evaluate management options for recovery. Projects continue to evaluate technologies to eliminate invasive species, with focus on INDOPACOM mission threats in Hawaii, Guam, and CNMI. Projects will continue to model DoW-relevant threatened, endangered, and at-risk species responses to multiple stressors, other key DoW geographies, including the southeastern United States and California. New projects will test and evaluate dual purpose technologies for firefighter safety and wildland fire response to include autonomous terrestrial fire equipment, real time monitoring of smoke exposure, and incident overwatch through data fusion products.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** The FY 2026 to FY 2027 decrease of $.635 thousand reflects adjustments to promote Government efficiencies from efficiency in alignment with Executive Order 14222, “Implementing the President’s Department of Government Efficiency Cost Efficiency Initiative” and other inflation adjustments to the program. Additionally, the program requirements reflect scaling back invasive species research initiatives in FY 2027. The program is strategically realigning resources to prioritize installation resilience against natural hazards, threatened and endangered species management, and wildfire risk mitigation that more directly support critical mission readiness objectives. This focused approach will target the most immediate threats to installation resilience while maintaining essential conservation efforts that prevent training restrictions.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** The program will initiate new projects to advance technology and modeling of natural hazards and risks from weather issues occurring at DoW installations, focusing on tornado prediction, hailstorms, and dual-purpose wildland fire response technologies. Projects will continue advancing technology for detection and treatment of mission relevant invasive species with a focus on Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM), specifically Hawaii and Guam. Ongoing projects will continue to assess DoW-relevant threatened, endangered, and at-risk species responses to multiple stressors and other key DoW geographies, including Hawaii, southeastern United States, and California. Scenario modeling tools capable of integrating installations and ecosystem responses will continue to assess threats from weather issues and rapid transformations that impact mission activities and installation resilience, focused in Alaska and the coastal regions. New projects are testing efficient conservation strategies to prevent future listing of threatened and endangered species and guide changes to management strategies to save costs.

**FY2025 accomplishments.** The program will initiate new projects to develop models aiding installation planning staff in managing the interaction of natural hazards, fire management, and ecosystem transformations that impact DoD mission activities. Research will continue on the effects of multiple stressors on threatened and endangered species that affect the DoD mission and to prevent future listing. Projects will develop models, tools, and data to evaluate installation systems resilience to compounded threats and natural hazards, specifically hurricanes and wildfire. New projects will advance measurements and modeling of micrometeorology key to installation resilience in the arid West. Additional projects will improve understanding and modeling of wildland fire smoke emissions and develop tools for smoke management from prescribed fires.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 21.9 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 19.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 18.8 |

> 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
- [Environmental Restoration (ER)](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603716D8Z/470/a0) — FY2027 17.8
- 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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