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.
The program will expand and mature rapid demonstrations within the Innovation Landscape Network through research agencies and universities for hardened infrastructure, physical systems, and rapid responses to address natural hazards facing installations in key DoW geographies. ESTCP will expand capacity for rapid research or technology support for installations experiencing natural hazard mission impacts. The program will also add prize challenges and other transactional authority (OTA) through partnership with the Navy’s Tech Bridge Orlando to engage dual purpose technologies, industry partners, and end users to accelerate demonstration and adoption of natural hazards tools and technology. The program will continue projects to implement permafrost travelability and construction stabilization technologies on installations in the Arctic, coastal hazard mapping tools in Alaska and Pacific Islands, wildfire planning and response technologies, and industry engagement for applications of artificial intelligence to resilience applications. Prescribed fire tools, advanced training technologies, and dual-purpose ground based autonomous firefighting vehicles will be piloted. eDNA sampling tools and genetic treatments of invasive species will be operationally demonstrated.
The FY 2026 to FY 2027 decrease of $2.947 million reflects a reduction associated with a realignment for regenerative grazing.
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.
The program is initiating additional rapid demonstrations for hardened infrastructure and physical systems to address natural hazards facing installations in key DoW geographies, focused on coastal installations, wildfire, Pacific Island resilience, and the Arctic. Projects will implement permafrost stabilization technologies, wildfire planning and response technologies, and coastal resilience hybrid design and 3-dimensional printing evaluations. The formal network of technology testbeds called "Innovation Landscapes" will continue in areas with high concentrations of DoW installations including Alaska, Southern California, Sonoran Desert (Arizona), Coastal California, mid-Atlantic, Gulf Coast of Florida, Hawaii, and the Southeast US. Projects continue to build robust, accelerated technology transfer on installations and with partner agencies in coordination with DoW Sentinel Landscapes partnerships. Within this integrated Innovation Landscape Network, DoW end-users helps direct technology priorities to sustain mission activities and meet environmental compliance in the face of compounded threats. These testbeds develop resilience metrics to improve natural hazard readiness and will leverage other agency funding and expertise to address complex resilience problems.
The program will conduct rapid testing of autonomous ground-based vehicles for firefighting applications through partnership with the Navy's Tech Grove. It will advance virtual reality for wildland fire training environments using next-generation fire and smoke modeling tools. The program will continue planning multi-year demonstrations focused on hardening infrastructure against natural hazards across key DoD geographies, implementing physical systems to protect DoD water supply, and improving the resilience of systems linking DoD installations and surrounding community infrastructure. Projects evaluating heat stress forecasting and physical mitigation technologies to reduce exposure to military personnel are expected to increase mission flexibility and reduce mandatory downtime under black flag conditions. Through the Innovation Landscape Network, end-users will rapidly refine technology investments for installations and mission applications, including permafrost-resistant construction demonstrations with NORTHCOM, coastal erosion protection systems for the mid-Atlantic and Alaska, permafrost stabilization hardware, and saltwater intrusion barriers. The program will provide rapid science support including advanced ash modeling from the US Geological Survey for Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in advance of the eruption of Mt. Spurr, west of Anchorage, AK. The budget reflects the consolidation of the former Resource Conservation and Resilience program area into Natural Hazards and Installation Resilience to better align with mission 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 | 51.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 44.8 |
| FY2027 | Request | 41.8 |
This activity is 33% of project 514's FY2027 request and 33% 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.