# Carbon Crunch

**R-2A activity** of project MSL-01 — MATERIALS PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY  
**Program element:** 0602025E — Making, Maintaining, Supply CHAIN AND Logistics  
**Component:** Defense-Wide · **Budget Activity:** 2  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602025E/MSL-01/a3  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602025E/MSL-01

## Summary

This activity requests $16.2M in FY2027, 12% of project MSL-01, up 1000% 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.** - Produce and test C-C 2D coupons and C-C 3D hypersonic-representative parts that mimic design features and manufacturing challenges seen in real, full-scale aeroshell. - Develop processes for high throughputs of C-C hypersonic aeroshells. - Design aeroshell production lines - Perform independent testing and assessment (i.e., material performance, manufacturing readiness assessment, techno-economic analysis) by government team.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** The FY 2027 increase reflects the shift from initial modeling and simulations to hardware development and sample part fabrication and testing.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** - Design 3D hypersonic-representative parts that mimic design features and manufacturing challenges seen in real, full-scale aeroshell.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | Enacted | 1.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 16.2 |

> 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 MSL-01

- [Functional Materials and Devices](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602025E/MSL-01/a0) — FY2027 41.2
- [Materials for Extreme Environments](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602025E/MSL-01/a1) — FY2027 20.1
- [Burn n' Go](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602025E/MSL-01/a2) — FY2027 18.7
- [Making, Maintaining, Supply Chains and Logistics Studies and Concepts](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602025E/MSL-01/a7) — FY2027 13.7
- [Chemical Processing for Force Protection](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602025E/MSL-01/a4) — FY2027 12.0
- [Grainy Day](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602025E/MSL-01/a5) — FY2027 10.5
- Reconfigurable Systems — FY2027 0.9

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0602025E project MSL-01 (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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