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Operational Energy and Installation Resilience
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 | $23.3M |
| FY25 | $25.4M |
| FY26 | $49.5M |
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 | FY21 | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actuals | $0 | $100.8M | $24.6M | $23.3M | ||
| Enacted | – | $104.0M | $25.5M | $46.3M | $25.4M | |
| Request | – | – | $0 | $46.3M | $63.2M | $49.5M |
blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.
Asked vs spent: the PB2023 book requested $0 for FY2023; the PB2025 book reported $24.6M as actual total obligation authority — $24.6M above the request. 24.6 − 0.0 = 24.6 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 — Operational Energy and Installation Resilience
The Operational Energy and Installation Resilience program develops, matures, prototypes, demonstrates, and assesses technologies, software, and processes for decreasing operational energy risk and increasing installation resilience. Energy is a cross-cutting pervasive need across every weapon system, platform, installation, and austere operating location. The objective of this program is to prioritize, validate performance in a relevant environment, and facilitate implementation of the validated solutions that increase weapon system and platform capabilities (range, endurance, number of sorties refueled, etc.), mitigate supply chain risk, and enhance resilience of supporting infrastructure for increased readiness and lethality. This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver weapon system capability. The use of such program funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program element 0605827F, 0605828F, 0605829F, 0605831F, 0605832F, 0605833F, 0605898F, 0606398F. In FY 2024 $0.688 million was expended for civilian pay expenses in this program element, and in FY 2025 $0.790 million is forecasted for civilian pay expenses in this program element. This effort is in Budget Activity 4, Advanced Component Development and Prototypes (ACD&P), because efforts are necessary to evaluate integrated technologies, representative modes or prototype systems in a high fidelity and realistic operating environment.
Mission — Operational Energy and Installation Resilience
The Operational Energy and Installation Resilience program develops, matures, prototypes, demonstrates, and assesses technologies, software, and processes for decreasing operational energy risk and increasing installation resilience. The Air Force is the Department of Defense largest consumer of operational energy and requires resilient installations as power projection platforms to execute its missions. Technology transition, agile software development, and process integration efforts with a focus in these areas enable the Air Force to optimize operational energy use for maximum combat capability and mitigate multi-domain energy threats to installations. The objective of this program is to prioritize, validate performance in a relevant environment, and facilitate implementation of the validated solutions. This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver weapon system capability. The use of such program funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program element 0605827F, 0605828F, 0605829F, 0605831F, 0605832F, 0605833F, 0605898F, 0606398F. In FY 2024 $0.688 million was expended for civilian pay expenses in this program element, and in FY 2025 $0.790 million is forecasted for civilian pay expenses in this program element.
Mission — Operational Energy
The Operational Energy project develops, matures, prototypes, and demonstrates technologies, software, and processes focused on optimizing energy usage to maximize combat capability. Activities include mission planning and scheduling optimization, mobility fleet optimization, aircraft drag reduction technologies, and energy supply chain and logistics efforts. As DOD's largest consumer of operational energy, these energy-focused efforts facilitate implementation of validated solutions that increase weapon system and platform capabilities (range, endurance, number of sorties refueled, etc.) and mitigate supply chain risk for DoD's largest consumer of operational energy, the Department of the Air Force. This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver weapon system capability. The use of such program funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program element 0605827F, 0605828F, 0605829F, 0605831F, 0605832F, 0605833F, 0605898F, 0606398F. In FY 2024 $0.688 million was expended for civilian pay expenses in this program element, and in FY 2025 $0.790 million is forecasted for civilian pay expenses in this program element.
Mission — Installation Resiliency
Installation Resiliency projects develop, mature, prototype, and demonstrate technologies, software, and processes focused on increasing installation energy resilience to ensure energy availability and reliability sufficient to provide for mission assurance and readiness. Supporting infrastructure is a critical and integral component of our weapon systems, and joint operations rely on connectivity across the Department of the Air Force enterprise. The Department of the Air Force requires resilient infrastructure and installations to execute its missions. Activity areas include Advanced Nuclear, Mission Resilience Digital Transformation, Resilient Energy technology, Flightline Modernization, and Energy for the Tactical Edge. This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver weapon system capability. The use of such program funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program element 0605827F, 0605828F, 0605829F, 0605831F, 0605832F, 0605833F, 0605898F, 0606398F. In FY 2024 $0.688 million was expended for civilian pay expenses in this program element, and in FY 2025 $0.790 million is forecasted for civilian pay expenses in this program element.
Justification
Accomplishments & Planned Programs (4)
Installation Resilience
The Installation Resilience program develops, matures, prototypes, demonstrates, and assesses technologies, software, and processes focused on increasing installation resilience. The Air Force requires resilient installations as power projection platforms to execute its missions. Technology transition, agile software development, and process integration efforts with a focus on resilience will enable the Air Force to mitigate multi-domain energy threats to installations. The objective of this program is to prioritize, validate, and facilitate implementation of validated solutions.
Operational Energy
Operational energy efforts seek to maximize combat capability by reducing overall DAF mission energy demand. Efforts in this program can include prototyping, demonstration, and transition of technologies, software, and processes that maximize combat capability by optimizing the following areas: platform energy use, mission planning and execution, propulsion sustainment, and energy logistics. Energy education, energy-informed wargaming, digital engineering, and modeling and simulation efforts typically support these areas. Specific examples of prototype and demonstration projects that optimize energy use and decrease energy intensity include legacy aircraft drag reduction technologies, alternate-fuel propulsion systems, ultra-efficient airframe designs, mission scheduling software, air-asset allocation tools, cargo load planning tools, and turbine engine sustainment enhancements for increased fuel efficiency. Operational Energy projects in these technology and process areas are viewed through an "energy lens,” specifically geared toward cost-effectively optimizing energy use to maximize combat capability. Ideally, as the Air Force progresses toward an energy-aware culture, all acquisition efforts will incorporate this tenet from the beginning of, and throughout, the acquisition life cycle. This program aims to advance such a culture through successful project execution.
Operational Energy
Operational energy efforts seek to maximize combat capability by reducing overall DAF mission energy demand. Efforts in this program include, but not limited to prototyping, demonstration, transition of technologies, software, and processes which optimize platform energy use, mission planning and execution, propulsion sustainment, and energy logistics. Energy education, energy-informed wargaming, digital engineering, and modeling and simulation efforts also contribute to optimization in these areas as well. Specific examples of prototype and demonstration projects that optimize energy use and decrease energy intensity include route planning, cargo optimization, aircraft drag reduction technologies, energy supply chain and logistics optimization, and mobility fleet optimization efforts. While some of the operational energy efforts may appear similar to efforts found in other program elements, the differentiator is the "energy lens” focus on cost-effectively optimizing energy use to maximize combat capability. All acquisition efforts will incorporate this tenet from the beginning of, and throughout, the acquisition life cycle.
Installation Resilience
Improve installation resilience through prototyping, integration, and demonstration of energy technologies. The technologies will be assessed in an operational environment.
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, Air Force | F | FY24 Actuals | $23.3M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air Force | F | FY25 Enacted | $25.4M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air Force | F | FY25 Total | $25.4M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air Force | F | FY26 Disc. Request | $49.5M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air Force | F | FY26 Total | $49.5M |
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 | $23.3M | $25.4M | $49.5M | $49.5M |
| 644860: Operational Energy and Installation Resilience | $0 | $23.3M | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| 644861: Operational Energy | $0 | $0 | $0 | $31.4M | $31.4M |
| 644862: Installation Resiliency | $0 | $0 | $25.4M | $18.1M | $18.1M |
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
Showing 25 of 36 from the Senate LDA disclosure database.
DPA TItle III funding FY27 NDAA FY27 Defense Appropriations Act Issues realted to Army Aviation & combat vehicles; Air…
H.R.1, One Big Beautiful Bill Act 2025 FY27 Defense Appropriations FY27 Transportation Appropriations (THUD): FAA…
Issues concerning energy conservation, energy research and development, and programs administered by the EPA Issues…
Climate change policies. Renewable, energy storage, and advanced clean energy policies. Grid reliability, resilience…
Climate change policies. Renewable, energy storage, and advanced clean energy policies. Grid reliability, resilience…
P.L.119-75 - Consolidated Defense, LHHSED, Nat. Sec., State, THUD, FSGG Appropriations Act FY26, P.L. 119-74…
H.R. 8800/S. 4784 - National Defense Authorization Act FY27, H.R. 8845 - Commerce, Justice, Science and Related…
H.R.1, One Big Beautiful Bill Act 2025 FY26 Defense Appropriations (S.2572/H.R.4016) FY26 Transportation…
Issues related to TCJA including R&D tax expensing Issues related to temporary expiring tax provisions Clean Energy…
Climate change policies. Renewable, energy storage, and advanced clean energy policies. Grid reliability, resilience…
Climate change policies. Renewable, energy storage, and advanced clean energy policies. Grid reliability, resilience…
Climate change policies. Renewable, energy storage, and advanced clean energy policies. Grid reliability, resilience…
Climate change policies. Renewable, energy storage, and advanced clean energy policies. Grid reliability, resilience…
S.190- Energy Threat Analysis Program Act of 2025; H.R. 3616, Reliable Power Act H.R. 1047, Grid Power Act H.R. 3632…
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act; H.R. 1968, Full Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025 H.R.…
H.R. 3616, Reliable Power Act; H.R. 1047, Grid Power Act; H.R. 3632, Power Plant Reliability Act; H.R. 3638, Electric…
H.R. 3616, Reliable Power Act H.R. 1047, Grid Power Act H.R. 3632, Power Plant Reliability Act H.R. 3638, Electric…
National Defense Authorization Act FY26, Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations Act FY26…
H.R. 3838/S. 2296 - National Defense Authorization Act FY26, H.R. 5342/S. 2354 - Commerce, Justice, Science and…
P.L. 119-60 - National Defense Authorization Act FY26, H.R. 5342/S. 2354 - Commerce, Justice, Science and Related…
H.R. 3838 - National Defense Authorization Act FY26 (Senate bill pending), Commerce, Justice, Science and Related…
P.L. 119-60 - National Defense Authorization Act FY26, H.R. 5342/S. 2354 - Commerce, Justice, Science and Related…
Climate change policies. Renewable, energy storage, and advanced clean energy policies. Grid reliability, resilience…
Climate change policies. Renewable, energy storage, and advanced clean energy policies. Grid reliability, resilience…
Climate change policies. Renewable, energy storage, and advanced clean energy policies. Grid reliability, resilience…
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 Operational Energy and Installation Resilience. 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 · J560
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2026_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2023 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J536
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 · J532
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 · J541
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.
FY2026 Air Force Research and Development Test and Evaluation, Vol. I · www.saffm.hq.af.mil
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