What project EMR-03 buys
The Materials Sciences project provides the fundamental research that underpins the design, development, assembly, and optimization of advanced materials, devices, and systems for DoW applications in areas such as design and simulation of novel materials and structures, energetics, complex hybrid systems, and advanced metrology. Prior to FY 2026, efforts in this Project were funded in PE 0601101E, Project MS-01.
Project EMR-03 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 | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 24.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 53.3 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 57.2 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 57.9 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 61.0 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 61.9 |
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. 2 of them 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.
- Explore potential of complex optimized protocols to produce currently unattainable material properties and desired performance limits. - Refine isotope and trace element analysis capabilities and demonstrate robust and universal analysis capabilities with (sub)-ppm sensitivities. - Develop aerosol materials with high acoustic impedance…
Read the FY2027 plan →- Demonstrate improved radioisotope yield in generating useful daughter products faster than natural decay processes and show a path to producing practical quantities of radioisotopes. - Complete solid-state reaction rate amplification factor analysis modeling and testing. - Demonstrate ~1000X improvement in solid-state reaction rates.
Read the FY2027 plan →FY2026 to FY2027 change The FY 2027 decrease reflects program completion.
FY2026 plans — current year - Develop and assess the capability of an integrated system to produce sufficient microbial biomass powder for 14 warfighters in one day from air, water, electricity, and microbes. - Determine that the microbial biomass powder meets DoW Nutritional Standards for Operational Rations (NSOR) requirement and meets DoW safety and stability standards. - Assess novel methods for modeling electrochemical interfaces, such as in batteries, to improve system lifetime performance.