What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project MQB-01 of PE 0602025E. 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 robust quantum sensors on government platforms. - Validate theory and limits of operation of robust quantum sensors. - Develop integration requirements and methodology for system demonstrations.
The FY 2027 decrease reflects the shift from design, development, and initial demonstration to the final program demonstration.
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.
- Validate program of record needs and requirements for quantum sensors. - Demonstrate robust quantum sensors outside of a laboratory environment. - Validate theory and principles of operation of robust quantum sensors. - Identify specific requirements to integrate robust quantum sensors on specific platforms.
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 | 12.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 10.9 |
This activity is 1.8% of project MQB-01's FY2027 request and 0.7% of PE 0602025E'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.
7 activities in project MQB-01
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.