# Fundamental Limits

**R-2A activity** of project EMR-03 — MATERIALS SCIENCES  
**Program element:** 0601122E — Emerging Opportunities  
**Component:** Defense-Wide · **Budget Activity:** 1  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601122E/EMR-03/a0  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601122E/EMR-03

## Summary

This activity requests $13.4M in FY2027, 25% of project EMR-03, up 123% on FY2026. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2026–FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2027 planned work.** - 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.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** The FY 2027 increase reflects a shift from initial design and development to finalization and demonstrations.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** - 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.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | Enacted | 6.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 13.4 |

> Prior, current and budget year only — an R-2A activity carries no five-year plan. It sums exactly into its project in the request year and not necessarily in any other.

## Other activities in project EMR-03

- [Materials Sciences Studies and Concepts](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601122E/EMR-03/a1) — FY2027 39.9
- Molecular Systems and Materials Assembly — FY2027 —

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0601122E project EMR-03 (PB PB2027). Narrative is the government's own text.
- **No marks, no contractors at this grain** — congressional marks land on the program element and R-3 performers on the project.
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_activity`.

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