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.
Adaptive Wavefront Control: Will examine the effects of surface texture on adaptive optics; investigate novel system architectures to minimize cooling requirements; analyze computing requirements necessary for design calculations. Attritable RF EW High Power (ARF-WHiP): Will investigate designs to increase carrier mobility and blocking voltage of silicon carbide power switches; explore phase shifter technologies, informed by cost, size, weight, and power (cSWAP) drivers; assess filter technologies for optimal bandwidth and insertion-loss tradeoff. Cyber Electromagnetic Convergence: Will investigate theoretical models to explore cooperative device function; explore the impact of varying timescales on system function; analyze novel methodologies for device protection. Persistent Attritable Electronic Warfare (PAEW): Will gain understanding of the minimum number of unwanted spurious modes possible in chip-scale acoustic and Yttrium Iron Garnet (YIG) resonators; examine and quantify the acoustic and electrical modulation speed of dielectric breakdown in sub-micron features; study different interface materials to mitigate instability due undesirable dielectric charging in Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) varactors.
FY 2027 funding increase reflects the consolidation of other ongoing efforts within this project from Adaptive Wavefront Control, Cyber Electromagnetic Convergence, Full Spectrum Structural Color, and Long-lived, low C-SWaP, RF Spectrum Sensing and Geolocation (LL-RFSS) to support the creation of Control and Propagation of Electromagnetic Radiation. Funding increase supports additional research in the areas of Persistent Attritable Electronic Warfare and Attritable RF EW High Power.
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 | 14.1 |
This activity is 40% of project A62's FY2027 request and 22% 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.