What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 138 of PE 0605797D8Z. 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 to update as needed DoW risk-based security review practices (e.g., fundamental research, SBIR/STTR) that are consistent across the DoW and mitigate foreign influence in S&T efforts. - Institutionalize DoW risk-based security reviews for fundamental research to mitigate foreign influence in S&T efforts across OSW. - Prioritize Programs of Record and S&T Projects that require additional protection to maintain U.S. technological advantage. - Update TAPPs at the speed of relevancy and technology development to drive horizontal protection. - Focus investment on data-driven models, invest in analytics and capabilities that enable data-informed identification and implementation of research security courses of action that appropriately protect DoW technology advantage. - Institutionalize and update proactive analytic tools to protect DoW investments in biomanufacturing in support of the DoW Biomanufacturing Strategy. - Begin establishing an enterprise fundamental research risk security information repository to improve consistency and rigor of reviews.
The increase of $2.417 million between FY 2026 and FY 2027 reflects the prioritization of research security, incorporating digital-first capabilities to improve risk reviews, and increased S&T protection guidance in the form of more frequent updates to technology protection analysis products, to include TAPPS.
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.
- Update as needed DoW risk-based security review practices (e.g., fundamental research, SBIR/STTR) that are consistent across the DoW and mitigate foreign influence in S&T efforts. - Implement DoW risk-based security reviews for fundamental research to mitigate foreign influence in S&T efforts across OSW. - Prioritize Programs of Record and S&T Projects that require enhanced protection to maintain U.S. technological advantage. - Update TAPPs at the speed of relevancy and technology development to drive horizontal protection for Critical Technology Areas, at the rate of 2 per year. - Institutionalize and update data-driven models and capabilities that enable data-informed identification and implementation of courses of action that appropriately protect DoW technology advantage. - Institutionalize and update proactive analytic tools supporting the biomanufacturing NSIB, including a map of the domestic biomanufacturing ecosystem for identification and tracking of metrics to support future implementation, refinement, and protection of U.S. investments in domestic biomanufacturing capabilities in support of the DoW Biomanufacturing Strategy.
- Institutionalize and update as needed DoD risk-based security review guidance (e.g., fundamental research, SBIR/STTR) that are consistent across the DoD and mitigate foreign influence in S&T efforts. - Continue to update TAPPs to drive horizontal protection of Critical Technology Areas. - Implement, refine, and develop new data-driven models and capabilities that enable data-informed identification and implementation of courses of action that appropriately protect DoD technology advantage. - Implement, assess, and improve proactive analytic tools supporting the biomanufacturing NSIB, including a map of the domestic biomanufacturing ecosystem for identification and tracking of metrics to support future implementation, refinement, and protection of U.S. investments in domestic biomanufacturing capabilities in support of the DoD Biomanufacturing Strategy.
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 | 13.9 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 11.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 13.9 |
This activity is 100% of project 138's FY2027 request and 39% of PE 0605797D8Z'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 138
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.