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.
- Reduce Size, Weight and Power (SWaP) of qNICs towards deployable hardware package. - Test, evaluate, and document developed quantum-augmented network protocols for standardization of protocols. - Develop and evaluate proof of concept over air quantum-augmented links by modifying qNICs.
The FY 2027 increase reflects the shift from design and demonstration of initial components to the design and demonstration of deployable hardware and networks.
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.
- Integrate fabricated quantum-network interface cards (qNICs) in a quantum-augmented network and demonstrate quantum communication, sensing, and timing algorithms. - Demonstrate advanced quantum-augmented network functionality by embedding quantum sensing and quantum time transfer into classical data streams. - Test and evaluate security capabilities of a prototype, quantum-augmented network to detect and mitigate network attacks.
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 | 11.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 18.0 |
This activity is 3.0% of project MQB-01's FY2027 request and 1.1% 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.