What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 139 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 driving towards consistent technology protection guidance and actions across the DoW enterprise by integrating, synchronizing, and deconflicting activities across the Department. Fund pilot programs to explore new concepts and capabilities in support of Department-wide protection activities. Focus on intellectual property protection activities, War industrial base threat assessment improvements, holistic horizontal program protection, and critical program information identification and protection. - Continue to mature the CTA protection lines of effort involving transactions subject to CFIUS and outbound investment regulations, export license applications, intellectual property, and domestic mergers and acquisitions, through analytic products to illuminate trends (such as among non-notified transactions in critical technology that may merit the attention of CFIUS), at a rate of hundreds of transactions per year spanning all the CTAs, enhanced with business intelligence and AI/ML capabilities. - Support and inform the NSC and DoW stakeholders when they are formulating and implementing the administration’s national and international policies to appropriately protect technology. - Leverage AI capabilities to identify new and emerging technologies warranting focused protection - Improve FY19 NDAA Section 1286 List entity nomination process.
The increase of $1.387 million between FY 2026 and FY 2027 reflects the increasing demand for subject matter expertise and complementary capabilities offered by business intelligence and AI/ML to illuminate trends in this rapidly changing space. We will leverage these capabilities to identify new and emerging technologies that are being targeted and to improve the nomination process to more frequently update the FY 2019 NDAA Section 1286 List. The increase also supports increased prioritization of non-traditional and classified protection mechanisms.
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.
- Continue driving towards consistent technology protection guidance and actions across the DoW enterprise by integrating, synchronizing, and deconflicting activities across the Department. Fund pilot programs to explore new concepts and capabilities in support of Department-wide protection activities. Focus on intellectual property protection activities, War industrial base threat assessment improvements, holistic horizontal program protection, and critical program information identification and protection. - Continue to mature the Critical Technology Area (CTA) protection lines of effort involving transactions subject to CFIUS and outbound investment regulations, export license applications, intellectual property, and domestic mergers and acquisitions, through analytic products to illuminate trends (such as among non-notified transactions in critical technology that may merit the attention of CFIUS), at a rate of hundreds of transactions per year spanning all CTAs, enhanced with business intelligence and AI/ML capabilities. - Support and inform the NSC and DoW stakeholders when they are formulating and implementing the administration’s national and international policies to appropriately protect technology.
FY 2025 Plans: - Develop consistent technology protection guidance and actions across the DoD enterprise by integrating, synchronizing, and deconflicting current and future technology protection guidance and actions applied to technologies supporting DoD military capability. - Assess and improve the implementation of CTA protection lines of effort involving transactions subject to CFIUS, export license applications, and antitrust considerations, such as through new analytic products to illuminate trends among non-notified transactions that may merit the attention of CFIUS. - Support and inform the NSC and DoD stakeholders when they are making and implementing national and international policy to appropriately protect technology. - Execute new investment risk authorities as required by statute or executive order, to include support in drafting implementing regulations. - Work with DoD and interagency partners to scope export controls to protect emerging and foundational technology and to implement the 2025 America First Trade Policy and 2025 America First Investment Policy.
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 | 12.1 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 12.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 14.3 |
This activity is 100% of project 139's FY2027 request and 40% 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 139
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.