# Project 613001 — Physics and Electronics

**Program element:** 0601102F — Defense Research Sciences  
**Project:** 613001  
**Component:** U.S. Air Force  
**Appropriation:** 3600 — RDT&E, Air Force  
**Budget Activity:** 1 — Basic Research  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601102F/613001  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601102F

## Summary

Project 613001 — Physics and Electronics requests $89.0M in FY2027, 30% of the $296.5M requested for program element 0601102F, down 2.6% on FY2026. 3 R-2A activities decompose the request.

## Funding profile

| 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 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0601102F; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## 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.

## Activities (R-2A) — 3

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Complex Electronics and Fundamental Quantum Processes | 44.4 | 41.8 | 43.0 | +3% | [a0](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601102F/613001/a0) |
| Lasers and Optics, Electromagnetics, Communication and Signal Processing | 33.3 | 31.3 | 32.3 | +3% | [a2](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601102F/613001/a2) |
| Plasma Physics and High Energy Density Non-Equilibrium Processes | 14.1 | 13.3 | 13.7 | +3% | [a1](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601102F/613001/a1) |

> Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan. In the request year they partition this project exactly; in earlier years they can under-cover it.

### Complex Electronics and Fundamental Quantum Processes

- 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…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601102F/613001/a0

### Lasers and Optics, Electromagnetics, Communication and Signal Processing

- 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…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601102F/613001/a2

### Plasma Physics and High Energy Density Non-Equilibrium Processes

- 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…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601102F/613001/a1

## What is NOT on this page

Congressional marks, the R-2 mission description and acquisition strategy, the industry vs government split of the whole request, and related program elements are recorded at **program-element** grain — an NDAA mark lands on a PE, never on a project. They are at https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601102F.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0601102F project 613001 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0601102F")`.

*HitchAI is an independent intelligence service, not affiliated with the U.S. Department of Defense. Budget figures are requests/estimates, not obligations.*