# Natural Hazards and Installation Resilience Technology Demonstration/Validation

**R-2A activity** of project 514 — Environmental Security Technology Certification Program  
**Program element:** 0603851D8Z — Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP)  
**Component:** Defense-Wide · **Budget Activity:** 4  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603851D8Z/514/a3  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603851D8Z

## Summary

This activity requests $41.8M in FY2027, 33% of project 514, down 6.6% 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.** 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.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** The FY 2026 to FY 2027 decrease of $2.947 million reflects a reduction associated with a realignment for regenerative grazing.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** 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.

**FY2025 accomplishments.** 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.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 51.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 44.8 |
| FY2027 | Request | 41.8 |

> 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 514

- [Energy Technology Demonstration/Validation](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603851D8Z/514/a1) — FY2027 46.9
- [Environmental Technology Demonstration/Validation](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603851D8Z/514/a0) — FY2027 33.3
- Sustainable Technologies Evaluation and Demonstration Program — FY2027 3.0

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0603851D8Z project 514 (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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