What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project AA3 of PE 0601102A. 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.
Material Sciences: Will explore ferroelectric material nanostructures for new capabilities in secure communication, computing, and electronics; examine precursory ceramic materials for extreme temperatures and pressure applications; investigate complex severe plastic deformation pathways for robust electronic and optoelectronic devices. Physics: Will analyze novel topological materials for resilient communication and data transmission; explore plasmonic nanostructures for improved power efficiency. Electronics and Photonics: Will explore impact ionization in semiconductor materials for uncooled long-wave infrared detection; examine novel pumping and confined nanostructures for high-efficiency, compact ultraviolet (UV) lasers; identify compact semiconductor light sources for optical-based communications.
This is not a new start effort. FY 2027 funding reflects the consolidation of other ongoing efforts within this project from Basic Research in Materials Sciences, Basic Research in Physics, and Basic Research in Electronics and Photonics to support the creation of Physical Sciences. Funding decrease reflects the strategic reallocation of resources to support evolving priorities and objectives.
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) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2027 | Request | 21.0 |
This activity is 33% of project AA3's FY2027 request and 9.8% of PE 0601102A'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.
18 activities in project AA3
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.