What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 0312 of PE 0604286N. 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.
FY 2027 funding continues additive manufacturing (AM) technology RDT&E for metal and polymer components including materials characterization and process development (including Additive Friction Stir Deposition and Binder Jetting technologies), continued development of AM design and manufacturing standards, and application and technical data package (TDP) development. It will inform AM equipment performance requirements, capabilities and limitations for use in dynamic environments (i.e., shipboard). In addition, this funding will support development of documentation to qualify AM equipment for shipboard use. It also enables continued investment in logistics integration of AM parts, including data-driven candidate part identification and AM part data analytics. This funding will enable continued exploration for the manufacturing/repair of printed circuit boards for electronic applications.
The increase of $10M in NAVSEA Maritime Advanced Manufacturing funding from FY2026 to FY2027 is due to reallocation of funding.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 10.0 |
This activity is 100% of project 0312's FY2027 request and 100% of PE 0604286N'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.
1 activity in project 0312
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.