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Biotechnology for Materials - Applied Research
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 | $16.1M |
| FY25 | $11.8M |
| FY26 | $8.21M |
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 | FY20 | FY21 | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actuals | $0 | $0 | $19.9M | $21.0M | $16.1M | ||
| Enacted | – | $0 | $20.6M | $21.8M | $16.7M | $11.8M | |
| Request | – | – | $20.6M | $21.9M | $16.7M | $11.8M | $8.21M |
blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.
Asked vs spent: the PB2023 book requested $21.9M for FY2023; the PB2025 book reported $21.0M as actual total obligation authority — $904.0K below the request. 21.0 − 21.9 = -0.9 USD millions — the compact figures above are rounded for reading.
Program lineage
No predecessor/successor lineage was recorded for this program element — no FY-to-FY transfer into or out of this line was stated in the ingested J-books, and none was inferred from the program structure.
Description
Mission — Biotechnology for Materials - Applied Research
This Program Element (PE) investigates, designs, and performs research focused on novel biotechnological methods, techniques, and materials to increase the resiliency of the military supply chain. The Army is responsible for centrally managing funding for Tri-Service Biotechnology for a Resilient Supply Chain (T-BRSC) efforts. T-BRSC leverages bio-industrial manufacturing to ensure critical domestic supply chain resilience for defense needs through domestic production of raw materials and critical products. Efforts under this PE collaborate with sister Services and select allied partners to create a cohesive biotechnology architecture to enable defense needs. Applied research projects investigate and design bio-engineered materials to ensure domestic sourcing for critical supply chain resiliency. This PE designs and validates technologies to enable rapid prototyping and evaluating of bio-engineered and bio-manufactured materials. Also under this PE are efforts determine and validate a digital architecture to secure biotech data and create computer aided design software to support the safe design and enhanced biosecurity of biotechnology products and applications. Research in this PE is coordinated with PE 0603386A (Biotechnology for Materials - Advanced Research). The cited research is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. The FY 2026 request was reduced by $0.037 million for civilian personnel to optimize the workforce in compliance with Executive Order 14210, "Implementing the President's Department of Government Efficiency Workforce Optimization Initiative."
Mission — Foundational Biotechnology Design and Dev
This Project works collaboratively with Joint Service partners to investigate and determine novel biotechnology methods and processes to establish a domestic resilient supply chain for defense needs. Applied research designs and conducts experiments on bio-derived, bio-functionalized, and bio-manufactured materials and biosynthetic precursors. Efforts under this Project investigate and validate models for design of defense applications. Areas of focus may include reclamation or sequestration of rare Earth/critical elements in the defense supply chain and drop-in replacements for currently employed military materials. Work in this Project compliments Program Element (PE) 0603386A (Biotechnology for Materials - Advanced Research) / CP7 (Biotechnology Demonstration and Evaluation). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy.
Mission — Scale-Up Microbial Products for Biomanufacturing
This project develops biomanufacturing capabilities of mission-critical materials for military use. This project enables the Army to achieve Multi-Domain Operations by securing the supply chain and bridging the gap between laboratory-scale material production and large-scale manufacturing for mission-critical materials. This cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Chemical Biological Center (CBC). Project SM1/Scale-Up Microbial Products for Biomanufacturing is a new start in FY 2025 within PE 0602386A / Biotechnology for Materials - Applied Research.
Mission — Biotechnology for Materials - Applied Research
This Program Element (PE) investigates, designs, and performs research focused on novel biotechnological methods, techniques, and materials to increase the resiliency of the military supply chain. The Army is responsible for centrally managing funding for Tri-Service Biotechnology for a Resilient Supply Chain (T-BRSC) efforts. T-BRSC leverages bio-industrial manufacturing to ensure critical domestic supply chain resilience for defense needs through domestic production of raw materials and critical products. Efforts under this PE collaborate with sister Services and select allied partners to create a cohesive biotechnology architecture to enable defense needs. Applied research projects investigate and design bio-engineered materials to ensure domestic sourcing for critical supply chain resiliency. This PE designs and validates technologies to enable rapid prototyping and evaluating of bio-engineered and bio-manufactured materials. Also under this PE are efforts determine and validate a digital architecture to secure biotech data and create computer aided design software to support the safe design and enhanced biosecurity of biotechnology products and applications. Research in this PE is coordinated with PE 0603386A (Biotechnology for Materials - Advanced Research). The cited research is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. The FY 2026 request was reduced by $0.037 million for civilian personnel to optimize the workforce in compliance with Executive Order 14210, "Implementing the President's Department of Government Efficiency Workforce Optimization Initiative."
Mission — Foundational Biotechnology Design and Dev
This Project works collaboratively with Joint Service partners to investigate and determine novel biotechnology methods and processes to establish a domestic resilient supply chain for defense needs. Applied research designs and conducts experiments on bio-derived, bio-functionalized, and bio-manufactured materials and biosynthetic precursors. Efforts under this Project investigate and validate models for design of defense applications. Areas of focus may include reclamation or sequestration of rare Earth/critical elements in the defense supply chain and drop-in replacements for currently employed military materials. Work in this Project compliments Program Element (PE) 0603386A (Biotechnology for Materials - Advanced Research) / CP7 (Biotechnology Demonstration and Evaluation). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy.
Mission — Scale-Up Microbial Products for Biomanufacturing
This project develops biomanufacturing capabilities of mission-critical materials for military use. This project enables the Army to achieve Multi-Domain Operations by securing the supply chain and bridging the gap between laboratory-scale material production and large-scale manufacturing for mission-critical materials. This cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Chemical Biological Center (CBC). Project SM1/Scale-Up Microbial Products for Biomanufacturing is a new start in FY 2025 within PE 0602386A / Biotechnology for Materials - Applied Research.
Justification
Accomplishments & Planned Programs (4)
Biotechnology Safety by Design for Defense
This task designs and investigates novel and emerging biotechnologies related to bio-engineered or bio-manufactured materials and their precursors to address vulnerabilities in the critical material supply chain for military needs.
Scale-Up Microbial Products for Bio Manufacturing of Mission Critical Materials
This effort investigates the methodologies for the generation of chemicals and/or proteins for use by other Department of Defense research and development organizations. This effort delivers materials from the laboratory-scale (less than 100 gram) to manufacturing prototype levels (between 100 gram and 1 kilogram) as well as large-scale production (greater than 1 kilogram) of mission-critical materials for military use. Products include foods, fabrics, fuels, firepower, resins, coatings, adhesives, and lubricants.
Biotechnology Safety by Design for Defense
This task designs and investigates novel and emerging biotechnologies related to bio-engineered or bio-manufactured materials and their precursors to address vulnerabilities in the critical material supply chain for military needs.
Scale-Up Microbial Products for Bio Manufacturing of Mission Critical Materials
This effort investigates the methodologies for the generation of chemicals and/or proteins for use by other Department of Defense research and development organizations. This effort delivers materials from the laboratory-scale (less than 100 gram) to manufacturing prototype levels (between 100 gram and 1 kilogram) as well as large-scale production (greater than 1 kilogram) of mission-critical materials for military use. Products include foods, fabrics, fuels, firepower, resins, coatings, adhesives, and lubricants.
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, Army | A | FY24 Actuals | $16.1M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army | A | FY25 Enacted | $11.8M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army | A | FY25 Total | $11.8M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army | A | FY26 Disc. Request | $8.21M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army | A | FY26 Total | $8.21M |
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 | FY24 Actuals | FY25 Total | FY26 Base | FY26 Request |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Program Element | $16.1M | $11.8M | $8.21M | $8.21M |
| CP6: Foundational Biotechnology Design and Dev | $16.1M | $10.8M | $7.20M | $7.20M |
| SM1: Scale-Up Microbial Products for Biomanufacturing | — | $966.0K | $1.01M | $1.01M |
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 Biotechnology for Materials - Applied Research. 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 · J30
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2026_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2022 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J25
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 · J26
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 · J26
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 · J25
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.
RDTE - Vol 1 - Budget Activity 2 · www.asafm.army.mil
PDF page 500
RDTE - Vol 1 - Budget Activity 1 · www.asafm.army.mil