What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project EMR-03 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.
- 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.
The FY 2027 increase reflects a shift from initial design and development to finalization and demonstrations.
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.
- Realize and characterize correlated multiphoton sources for sensing, communication, and imaging. - Demonstrate quantum-enhanced optical metrology with correlated multiphoton sources for low-light imaging, quantum sensing, and resilient optical communications. - Demonstrate high fidelity quantum operations with error-resilient qubits created by measurement and feedback techniques. - Determine pathways to improve radioisotope yield in generating useful daughter products faster than natural decay processes. - Demonstrated levitation of heavy mass with high confinement bandwidth in a compact form factor along 3 axes. - Initiate solid-state reaction rate amplification factor analysis modeling and testing.
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 | 6.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 13.4 |
This activity is 25% of project EMR-03's FY2027 request and 3.5% 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.
3 activities in project EMR-03
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.