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Chemical and Biological Defense Program
Budget figures
FY2026 award data is a partial year — USAspending reports awards on a rolling basis, and this corpus runs through 2026-09-04. why partial FY2026 data? →
Budget trajectory
| Fiscal year | Amount |
|---|---|
| FY24 | $33.5M |
| FY25 | $37.8M |
| FY26 | $36.6M |
All series figures: R-1 TOA · PB2026
Decade view
P-1/R-1 workbook TOA basis, shown compact in $B/$M (the workbook records USD thousands); each figure cites its own President's Budget edition
The vertical scale does not start at zero: the baseline sits just below this program’s smallest year, so a low point on this line is not a small amount. Read the shape for direction and the grid below for the figures.
● actuals (line) · ○ enacted · ◇ request — gaps are editions the program is absent from, never interpolated.
| Series | FY15 | FY16 | FY17 | FY18 | FY19 | FY20 | FY21 | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actuals | $45.7M | $46.9M | $43.8M | $43.8M | $40.9M | $44.2M | $46.6M | $35.3M | $39.0M | $33.5M | ||
| Enacted | $47.8M | $44.8M | $43.9M | $42.1M | $48.2M | $50.3M | $37.2M | $39.7M | $36.2M | $37.8M | ||
| Request | $44.8M | $43.9M | $42.1M | $45.2M | $45.3M | $34.7M | $34.7M | $36.2M | $37.8M | $36.6M |
blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.
Asked vs spent: the PB2023 book requested $34.7M for FY2023; the PB2025 book reported $39.0M as actual total obligation authority — $4.26M above the request. 39.0 − 34.7 = 4.3 USD millions — the compact figures above are rounded for reading.
Program lineage
No stated lineage edges for this program element — only the candidate connections below, which are inferred and unverified.
Show possible connections (1 candidate, unverified)
These edges are inferred from program-element and budget-activity structure, not stated in any J-book sentence — treat them as leads, not facts.
- BA-maturation · FY2018 · BA2candidate (unverified)
Description
Mission — Chemical and Biological Defense Program
This program element (PE) resources basic research efforts directed at promoting theoretical and experimental research in Life and Physical Sciences. These efforts are part of an integrated portfolio addressing emerging chemical and biological (CB) threats, and are a key enabler supporting the Understand, Protect, and Mitigate portfolios. Basic research focuses on pursuing fundamental science to advance a greater understanding of threats, improve situational awareness of emerging threats, and support transformative research in emerging research areas that can potentially foster paradigm shifts in the CB defense research arena to a rapid response capability. Individual projects include: - Life Sciences (LF1): Fundamental efforts to understand living systems' response to biological or chemical agents to support detection, diagnostics, protection, and medical treatment (e.g., microbiology, biochemistry, pathogenic mechanisms, cell and molecular biology, immunology, nanoscale science, and information science). - Physical Sciences (PS1): Fundamental scientific phenomena to support the investigation of physical and chemical properties and interactions for enhanced functionalities important to detection, diagnostics, protection, and decontamination (e.g., chemistry, physics, materials science, nanotechnologies, nanoscale science, and environmental science).
Mission — Life Sciences (Basic Research)
This Project (LF1) focuses on fundamental efforts to understand living systems' responses to biological or chemical agents to support detection, protection, diagnostics, and medical treatment. Research focuses on studying factors that influence the behavior of chemicals, toxins, and pathogens in relation to the host or target. Understanding host/agent interactions can drive the exploration of novel approaches to detect, diagnose or protect against threats. Research also focuses on medical countermeasures for improved efficacy against a wide array of current and future threat agents. This project is a key enabler supporting the Understand, Protect, and Mitigate portfolios.
Mission — Physical Sciences (Basic Research)
This Project (PS1) advances fundamental scientific knowledge in physical science areas that include chemistry, physics, materials science, environmental science, and nanotechnology that could potentially lead to transformational chemical and biological (CB) defensive capabilities enhancing warfighter performance and safety. This project is a key enabler supporting the Understand, Protect, and Mitigate portfolios.
Justification
Accomplishments & Planned Programs (2)
1) Life Sciences
Focuses on fundamental efforts to understand living systems' responses to biological agents, providing knowledge and capabilities that support medical countermeasure development for prophylaxis and therapeutic interventions.
1) Physical Sciences
Focuses on fundamental scientific phenomena including chemistry, physics, materials science, environmental science, and nanotechnology.
Budget line items(workbook-cited)
P-1/R-1 workbook Total Obligation Authority basis (USD thousands) · PB2026.
Exhibit R-1
| Account | Org | Type | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide | CBDP | FY24 Actuals | $33.5M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide | CBDP | FY25 Enacted | $37.8M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide | CBDP | FY25 Total | $37.8M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide | CBDP | FY26 Disc. Request | $36.6M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide | CBDP | FY26 Total | $36.6M |
Budget Details(R-2/P-40 facts)
J-book detail basis (R-2/P-40, USD millions) · PB2026 — a different accounting basis from the P-1/R-1 workbook TOA above; where the two disagree, the reconciliation strip under Budget figures shows both.
Wider than this screen — swipe the table sideways for the remaining fiscal-year columns.
| Project | All Prior Years | FY24 Actuals | FY25 Total | FY26 Base | FY26 Request |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Program Element | $0 | $33.5M | $37.8M | $36.6M | $36.6M |
| LF1: Life Sciences (Basic Research) | — | $19.7M | $21.1M | $22.4M | $22.4M |
| PS1: Physical Sciences (Basic Research) | — | $13.8M | $16.7M | $14.1M | $14.1M |
Follow the dollar
No follow-the-dollar view — this program's awards haven't been crosswalked at high confidence (flows cover 312 of 1,938 programs). why coverage is partial? →
Awards
No awards are linked to this program element at high or medium confidence — the budget→award crosswalk only asserts links it can defend, and this line has none yet.
Lobbying mentions
No Senate LDA lobbying filing in the tracked data mentions this program element by code or alias.
Oversight
Department-level designation (not specific to this program)
GAO lists 5 high-risk areas for DOD as a whole. That designation covers the department, not Chemical and Biological Defense Program. No program-specific GAO finding for this line is in the ingested data. See the DOD oversight record.
Program dossier
No research dossier for this program — dossiers cover 50 of 1,938 programs, the largest fully J-book-detailed lines by FY2026 requested dollars. why no dossier here? →
Primary sources
Open any budget figure for its exact receipt. Verified line items lead with the highlighted government PDF; original spreadsheets download with their budget edition and exhibit in the filename.
Budget totals · TOA sources
FY2026 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J859
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2026_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2017 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J684
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2017_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2018 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J792
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2018_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2019 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J819
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2019_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2020 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J812
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2020_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2021 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J875
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2021_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2022 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J851
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2022_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2023 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J825
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2023_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2024 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J820
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2024_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2025 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J841
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2025_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
Detailed budget justification
The related TOA spreadsheets above use a different accounting basis from R-2/P-40 detail. Their amounts are not assumed to match these detailed sources.