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Fiscal Receipts

Advanced Materials for Weapon Systems

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What it is
Advanced Materials for Weapon Systems — a research & development program run by Air Force.
What changed
-$1.14M FY25→26
Who gets it
No award linkage at high confidence.

Budget Figures

FY24 Actuals
$55.0M
FY25 Total
$32.2M
FY26 Request
$31.0M
FY25→26 Change
-$1.14M

FY2026 award data is a partial year — USASpending awards are reported on a rolling basis and the fiscal year does not close until September 30. why partial FY2026 data? →

Budget Trajectory
FY24: $55.0MFY25: $32.2MFY26: $31.0MFY24FY25FY26
FY24
$55.0M
FY25
$32.2M
FY26
$31.0M
Decade view — each figure cites its own President's Budget edition
FY2015 actuals — PB2017 editionFY2016 actuals — PB2018 editionFY2017 actuals — PB2019 editionFY2018 actuals — PB2020 editionFY2019 actuals — PB2021 editionFY2020 actuals — PB2022 editionFY2021 actuals — PB2023 editionFY2022 actuals — PB2024 editionFY2023 actuals — PB2025 editionFY2024 actuals — PB2026 editionFY2016 enacted — PB2017 editionFY2017 enacted — PB2018 editionFY2018 enacted — PB2019 editionFY2019 enacted — PB2020 editionFY2020 enacted — PB2021 editionFY2021 enacted — PB2022 editionFY2022 enacted — PB2023 editionFY2023 enacted — PB2024 editionFY2024 enacted — PB2025 editionFY2025 enacted — PB2026 editionFY2017 request — PB2017 editionFY2018 request — PB2018 editionFY2019 request — PB2019 editionFY2020 request — PB2020 editionFY2021 request — PB2021 editionFY2022 request — PB2022 editionFY2023 request — PB2023 editionFY2024 request — PB2024 editionFY2025 request — PB2025 editionFY2026 request — PB2026 editionFY15FY26

● actuals (line)  ·  ○ enacted  ·  ◇ request — gaps are editions the program is absent from, never interpolated.

SeriesFY15FY16FY17FY18FY19FY20FY21FY22FY23FY24FY25FY26
Actuals$38.3M$38.2M$54.1M$34.7M$44.1M$58.7M$57.2M$60.6M$53.2M$55.0M
Enacted$46.7M$35.1M$37.9M$47.4M$60.1M$60.1M$63.4M$49.8M$30.4M$32.2M
Request$35.1M$37.9M$34.4M$36.6M$0$31.9M$29.1M$30.4M$29.7M$31.0M

blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.

Asked vs spent: the PB2021 book requested $0 for FY2021; the PB2023 book reports $57.2M actually spent — $57.2M above the request.

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 Materials Transition

This project develops and demonstrates advanced materials and processing technologies for fielded and planned Department of the Air Force weapon, airframe, aerospace structure, protection, and propulsion applications. Advanced materials and processes that have matured beyond applied research are characterized, critical data are collected, and critical evaluations in the proposed operating environment are performed. This design and scale-up data improves the overall affordability of promising materials and processing technologies, providing needed initial incentives for their industrial development.

Mission Advanced Materials for Weapon Systems

The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is focused on high-impact, multi-domain science & technology (S&T) solutions that drive innovation now while laying the groundwork for the Air and Space Force to win the future fight. AFRL effectively synchronizes the Department of the Air Force (DAF) S&T enterprise and workforce to align towards the most consequential DAF priorities and accelerate the delivery of game-changing S&T. This program develops and demonstrates advanced materials and process technologies to satisfy Department of the Air Force requirements in areas such as survivability, readiness, affordability, and new processes and materials. These projects ensure the Department of the Air Force weapon systems are ready and able when needed. Funds in this PE may be used to investigate specified technology advancements in air, space and/or cyber domains. In order to manage, execute, and deliver science and technology capabilities, this program element may include: necessary civilian pay expenses; expenses to support the operation and maintenance of facilities; as well as expenses related to travel, supplies, IT hardware, software and support, administrative contractor services, etc. This program is in Budget Activity 3, Advanced Technology Development because this budget activity includes development of subsystems and components and efforts to integrate subsystems and components into system prototypes for field experiments and/or tests in a simulated environment.

Mission Electromagnetic Protection Materials

This project develops and demonstrates advanced materials and technologies to enable Department of the Air Force personnel, weapons, platforms, and mission-systems to operate with impunity in extreme electromagnetic spectrum environments. These extreme electromagnetic spectrum environments include those caused by deliberate electromagnetic radiation from Directed Energy Weapons (both laser and radio frequency) and nuclear detonation. In FY 2024 and beyond, work related to protection of space-based platforms is accomplished in PE 1206616SF: Space Advanced Technology Development/Demo; Project 633834: Project Integrated Space Technology Demonstrations; Effort: Advanced Materials for Spacecraft Resilience.

Mission Non-Destructive Inspection Development

This project develops and demonstrates advanced nondestructive inspection and evaluation technologies to monitor performance integrity and to detect failure causing conditions in weapon systems components and materials. Nondestructive inspection and evaluation capabilities greatly influence and/or limit many design, manufacturing, and maintenance practices. This project provides technology to satisfy Department of the Air Force requirements to extend the lifetime of current systems through increased reliability and cost-effectiveness at field and depot maintenance levels to include reduced manhours through automation. Equally important is assuring manufacturing quality, integrity, and safety requirements are built in.

Justification

Accomplishments & Planned Programs (6)

Electromagnetic Protection for Personnel

In FY 2026, this effort was renamed from "Aircrew Protection" to "Electromagnetic Protection for Personnel" to better describe the scope of the work. This effort develops and demonstrates materials technologies that enhance protection for Department of the Air Force personnel to ensure safety and to enable crews to perform required missions in a threat environment.

Electromagnetic Protection for Aerospace Systems

In FY 2026, this effort was renamed from "Aerospace Systems Protection" to "Electromagnetic Protection for Aerospace Systems" to better reflect the scope of the technology. This project develops and demonstrates electromagnetic protection technologies that enable survivability of Department of the Air Force platforms, systems, and components to ensure mission effectiveness in extreme electromagnetic spectrum environments.

Advanced System Monitoring Technologies

In FY 2026, the work and funding associated with the Special Material Inspection Technologies effort in this Project, will be merged into this effort to accelerate technological advancement in inspection and monitoring of specialty materials. Development and transition advanced nondestructive inspection/evaluation (NDI/E) capabilities for data acquisition, analysis, and integration for enhanced damage detection and characterization in composite and specialty materials coatings on aircraft. This supports just-in-time maintenance, increased mission availability, and enables more affordable inspections, including automated robotic technologies.

Special Material Inspection Technologies

In FY 2026, within this Project, the work and funding of the Special Material Inspection Technologies effort will be consolidated into the Advanced System Monitoring Technologies effort to synergistically accelerate technological advancements in the inspection and monitoring of specialty materials. Develop and demonstrate advanced inspection technologies supporting special material systems to enhance affordability and ensure full performance and survivability.

Air Vehicle Materials Technologies

Develop and demonstrate materials and processes technologies for air vehicle and subsystems to enhance lift, propulsion, power generation management, survivability, and affordability of air vehicles.

Counter Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Technologies

Develop and demonstrate multiple physical and technical methods for the degradation of adversarial Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) collection and analysis supporting resilient basing and Agile Combat Employment Concepts of Operations (CONEMPS). These efforts will delay enemy decisions and actions, furthering Department of the Air Force mission goals. This work directly supports both passive airbase defense and overall theater operations.

Budget Line Items(workbook-cited)

Exhibit R-1

AccountOrgTypeAmount
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air ForceFFY24 Actuals$55.0M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air ForceFFY25 Enacted$32.2M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air ForceFFY25 Total$32.2M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air ForceFFY26 Disc. Request$31.0M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air ForceFFY26 Total$31.0M

Budget Details(R-2/P-40 facts)

ProjectAll Prior YearsFY24 ActualsFY25 TotalFY26 BaseFY26 Request
632100: Electromagnetic Protection Materials$0$12.3M$13.6M$13.6M$13.6M
633946: Materials Transition$0$37.7M$14.0M$12.8M$12.8M
Program Element$0$55.0M$32.2M$31.0M$31.0M
633153: Non-Destructive Inspection Development$0$4.94M$4.57M$4.68M$4.68M

No follow-the-dollar view — this program's awards haven't been crosswalked at high confidence (flows cover 17 of 1741 programs). why coverage is partial? →

Awards

No awards are linked to this program element at high 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.

No research dossier for this program — dossiers cover 50 of 1741 programs, the largest fully J-book-detailed lines by FY2026 requested dollars. why no dossier here? →