What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project EMR-01 of PE 0601122E. 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.
- Investigate approaches for enabling cross-platform entanglement across disparate architectures for distributed quantum sensing and computing applications. - Design training for AI experts to profess a given science domain and advance its research and knowledge frontiers. - Enable scientific AI to create useful, communicable, generalizable abstractions directly from experimental data. - Discover, through optimization, pairwise -or larger neighborhood- agent interaction rules that lead to desired system behaviors.
The FY 2027 increase reflects studies and concepts initiations including, but not limited to, basic research in AI tools, abstractions that will enable scientific AI and applications that will support distributed quantum sensing and computing.
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.
- Begin exploration of new mathematics to automatically disentangle multimodal data, perceive and learn their relationships, and discard superfluous information. - Develop and evaluate scientific artificial intelligence (AI) tools ability to discover principles for DoW-relevant applications.
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) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | Enacted | 22.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 54.4 |
This activity is 28% of project EMR-01's FY2027 request and 14% of PE 0601122E'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.
15 activities in project EMR-01
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.