What project 613001 buys
Basic research in the Physics and Electronics Project seeks to enable revolutionary advances and expand the fundamental knowledge supporting technologies critical to the future of the Department of the Air Force. Research prioritizes high-risk, high-reward, game-changing scientific breakthroughs essential for future leaps in warfighter system performance, functionality, reliability, and survivability while simultaneously reducing component and system power, size, mass, and life cycle costs. Major areas being investigated in this project are complex electronics and fundamental quantum processes; plasma physics and high energy density non-equilibrium processes; and lasers and optics, electromagnetics, communication, and signal processing. While the following specific efforts are the focus of the Project, there is interest in exploring novel ideas that may bridge these major efforts as well as those in the other Projects within 0601102F, Defense Research Sciences.
Project 613001 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 91.8 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 91.4 |
| FY2027 | Request | 89.0 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 91.3 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 95.9 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 98.0 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 100.0 |
3 accomplishments / planned programs
The R-2A exhibit — the only level of the budget that describes work that has not happened yet. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only, no five-year plan. Each describe FY2027 work in enough detail to have their own page; the rest are shown here in full. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
- Continue exploring a wide range of complex materials and devices, including non-linear optical materials, photonics, optoelectronics, metamaterials, cathodes, dielectric and magnetic materials, memristive systems, topological materials, strongly correlated materials, and two-dimensional materials including graphene. - Continue…
Read the FY2027 plan →- Continue exploring all aspects of producing and receiving electromagnetic and electro-optical signals, as well as their propagation through complex media, including adaptive optics and optical imaging. - Continue to investigate aspects of the phenomenology of lasers including non-linear optics and ultra-short pulse laser science…
Read the FY2027 plan →- Continue exploring a wide range of activities characterized by processes sufficiently energetic to require understanding and managing plasma phenomenology and the non-linear response of materials to high electric and magnetic fields. - Continue exploring high-energy lasers, plasma discharges, radio frequency propagation, radio…
Read the FY2027 plan →