What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 613001 of PE 0601102F. 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.
- 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 exploration related to generating and controlling quantum states, such as superposition and entanglement, in photonic systems, quantum dots and defects in solids, and ultracold atoms and molecules.
FY 2027 increased compared to FY 2026 by $1.244 million due to increased emphasis on Complex Electronics and Fundamental Quantum Processes. This increase reflects programmatic adjustments to the DAF Science and Technology portfolio for strategic realignment to optimize core research areas and improve resource efficiency. This will result in approximately 5 more grants awarded in Complex Electronics and Fundamental Quantum Processes.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
- Explore a wide range of complex materials and devices, including non-linear optical materials, photonics, optoelectronics, metamaterials, cathodes, dielectric and magnetic materials, memristive systems, topological materials, strongly correlated materials, and two-dimensional materials including graphene. - Conduct research related to generating and controlling quantum states, such as superposition and entanglement, in photonic systems, quantum dots and defects in solids, and ultracold atoms and molecules.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 44.4 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 41.8 |
| FY2027 | Request | 43.0 |
This activity is 48% of project 613001's FY2027 request and 15% of PE 0601102F'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.
3 activities in project 613001
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.