What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project A62 of PE 0601275A. 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.
Foundational Quantum Sensing: Will investigate potential advantage of enhanced imaging capabilities using quantum sensors and quantum interferometric techniques; investigate ion detection as a possible dramatic improvement to sensor readout methods and compare with spectroscopic readout techniques; investigate nonlinear coupling regime between electromagnetic fields and quantum spins in order to discern if exceptional point operation offers advantage. Internet of Battlefield Things: Will investigate how much environmental domain shift and network changes can be tolerated while ensuring real-time situational awareness of changing adversarial technologies; explore how to dynamically allocate processes to heterogenous devices by monitoring network bandwidth constraints, device resource constraints, and node failures; conduct research to advance the scale of inference and reasoning via cause-effect analysis between control stimuli, blue asset observations, and gray asset wireless traffic. Tactical Edge Cognitive Computing (TECC): Will investigate optimization of ferroelectric materials and processing conditions for non-volatile, stable functionality of ferroelectric field-effect transistor (FeFETs) within the constraints of semiconductor foundries. Thorium-229 (Th-229) for Precision Timing Nuclear Clocks: Will explore laser excitation requirements for the Th-229 nuclear transition; validate theoretical modeling of Th-229 with host materials; identify synergistic material effects for decreased size and power requirements.
FY 2027 funding increase reflects the consolidation of other ongoing efforts within this project from Foundational Quantum Sensing, Internet of Battlefield Things CTA, and Thorium-229 for Precision Timing Nuclear Clocks to support the creation of Advanced Sensing, Measurement, and Timing. Funding increase supports additional research in the areas of Thorium-229.
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) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2027 | Request | 14.7 |
This activity is 41% of project A62's FY2027 request and 23% of PE 0601275A'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.
17 activities in project A62
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.