What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 514 of PE 0603851D8Z. 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.
Demonstrate and validate technologies that improve the performance, cybersecurity, and robustness of installation buildings as well as water and energy infrastructure. Technologies include zero-trust principles applied to facility related control systems, long-duration energy storage added to electric microgrids, and building thermal energy networks that link buildings via an ultra-efficient ambient temperature loop, facilitating shared heating and cooling resources. Additionally, investments will focus on assessment of regional transmission grid resilience, guiding investment and engagement strategies to ensure reliable supplies of energy needed for critical missions.
The FY 2026 to FY 2027 decrease of $2.068 million reflects a contraction on the focus of demonstrations that involve energy and water resilience technologies, reflecting adjustments to promote Government efficiencies from efficiency in alignment with Executive Order 14222.
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.
Demonstrations of innovative technologies and technology transition approaches are continuing to improve installation energy and water resilience in accordance with DoW Instruction 4170.11, improve building performance, indoor air quality, energy and water efficiency and reduce facilities’ utility and operational costs. Demonstrations are being initiated for integrated solutions that combine facility energy demand reduction, advanced district energy systems, energy storage and load flexibility to improve building-level and system-wide efficiency and reliability. Integrated solutions provide benefit through cumulative improvements in facility and equipment efficiency that reduce whole-system life cycle costs. Solutions vary by regional factors and projects will be selected to validate system design approaches that are tailorable to the Department’s installation portfolio. The program will seek to facilitate teaming with key stakeholders to leverage expertise in system design and analysis, cybersecurity of control system, systems integration, project development and utility services.
Continual planning multi-year demonstrations for microgrid and energy storage technologies that improved installation energy system reliability and resilience and reduced the time and cost of microgrid design and development. High efficiency building HVAC technologies demonstrations will continue to establish life-cycle cost and indoor air quality improvement performance data. Planning of multi-year demonstrations for water efficiency and resilience technologies and analysis. Technology transition efforts through targeted partnerships with energy services companies (ESCOs) and utilities continued. These demonstrations will address requirements for installation energy resilience stated in DoD Instruction 4170.11, and energy and water efficiency objectives outlined in the DoD Installation Energy Strategy. Energy resilience solutions are being sought that integrate installation and operational energy assets to provide dual-use benefits.
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 | 39.8 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 49.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 46.9 |
This activity is 38% of project 514's FY2027 request and 38% of PE 0603851D8Z'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 514
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.