# Materials Sciences Studies and Concepts

**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/a1  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601122E/EMR-03

## Summary

This activity requests $39.9M in FY2027, 75% of project EMR-03, up 184% 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.** - 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 to be implemented as a blast mitigation system. - Initiate the development of novel devices for terahertz memory and logic applications. - Detect and localize sources of trace chemical signals within complex and changing environments with edge computing. - Establish the foundational science for quantitative prediction of underwater extreme velocity, pressure and frequency events. - Establish chemical kinetics and thermodynamic laws governing liquid metal (alkali / alkaline earth metals) plus seawater combustion. - Explore the potential of forms of coherent excitation to generate pairs of entangled nuclear radiation to better control nuclear reaction processes. - Exploit quantum vacuum fluctuations to generate resource entanglement and decoherence to be utilized in the development of future communication technologies.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** The FY 2027 increase reflects studies and concepts initiations including, but not limited to, basic research in aerosols for blast mitigation systems, trace chemical detection using edge computing and quantitative prediction models for sub-domain extreme velocity and pressure.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** - Advance methodologies for efficient data integration from isotope and trace element analysis of materials and developed multimodal isotope and trace element analysis measurement capabilities with increased robustness. - Explore acoustic properties of rapidly deployable non-solid materials for potential use in blast wave attenuation. - Begin evaluations of materials, characterization methods, and device architectures to electrically controllable altermagnetism.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | Enacted | 14.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 39.9 |

> 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

- [Fundamental Limits](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601122E/EMR-03/a0) — FY2027 13.4
- 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`.

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