What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 644862 of PE 0604860F. 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.
Continue development and demonstration of advanced nuclear power for installations to ensure continuity of critical missions throughout any potential disruption.
FY 2027 increased by $44.990 million compared to FY 2026 to accelerate advanced nuclear development and demonstration.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
- Continue development and demonstration of advanced nuclear power for installations to ensure continuity of critical missions throughout any potential disruption. - Continue development and demonstration of processes focused on modernizing the way the DAF collects, stores, curates, connects, analyzes, and conveys the data associated with mission resilience requirements that cross current organizational stovepipes to provide actionable insights and quantitative mission requirements. - Initiate construction activities for the Arctic-Capable Energy Storage System to improve resilience of critical missions with unique load profiles. - Continue development and demonstration of energy and water technologies that decouple operations at the tactical edge from reliance on intermittent power and imported water.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 24.6 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 16.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 61.0 |
This activity is 100% of project 644862's FY2027 request and 100% of PE 0604860F'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 644862
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 project page.