What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project MSL-02 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 fully functional growth tools/techniques with precise control for complex material growth. - Achieve small-scale demonstrations of four new complex inorganic materials. - Scale up growth to at least 2 inches at single crystal quality for one complex material. - Demonstrate that growth process is uniform at large-scale and repeatable across multiple runs.
The FY 2027 increase reflects the shift from initial development to small-scale demonstrations.
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.
- Start development of new material growth tools or modification of existing growth tools to be used to achieve new complex single crystal materials. - Identify and evaluate key technical risks with the functionality of these novel growth tools and techniques, and plan appropriate mitigation strategies, such as system upgrades or procurement of spare parts.
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 | 13.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 27.1 |
This activity is 7.4% of project MSL-02's FY2027 request and 1.7% 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.
29 activities in project MSL-02
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.