# Crystal Palace

**R-2A activity** of project MSL-02 — DISRUPTIVE MICROTECHNOLOGIES  
**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-02/a18  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602025E/MSL-02

## Summary

This activity requests $27.1M in FY2027, 7.4% of project MSL-02, up 100% 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.** - 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.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** The FY 2027 increase reflects the shift from initial development to small-scale demonstrations.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** - 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.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | Enacted | 13.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 27.1 |

> 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-02

- [Disruptive Microtechnologies Studies and Concepts](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602025E/MSL-02/a22) — FY2027 45.6
- [Applied Microsystems Studies and Concepts](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602025E/MSL-02/a23) — FY2027 30.4
- [Digital RF Battlespace Emulator (DRBE)](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602025E/MSL-02/a4) — FY2027 29.2
- [Next Generation Microelectronics Manufacturing (NGMM)](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602025E/MSL-02/a1) — FY2027 25.0
- [Optimum Processing Technology Inside Memory Arrays (OPTIMA)](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602025E/MSL-02/a6) — FY2027 21.1
- Photonic Integrated Circuit Architectures for Scalable System Objectives (PICASSO) — FY2027 18.5
- Promethean Clay — FY2027 18.1
- [Smash](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602025E/MSL-02/a20) — FY2027 17.6
- PROtein SEquencing (PROSE) — FY2027 17.4
- [Optomechanical Thermal Imaging (OpTIm)](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602025E/MSL-02/a3) — FY2027 17.0
- [Technologies for Heat Removal in Electronics At the Device Scale (THREADS)](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602025E/MSL-02/a5) — FY2027 14.1
- [Machine Learning and Optimization-guided Compilers for Heterogeneous Architectures (MOCHA)](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602025E/MSL-02/a10) — FY2027 13.1
- [Advanced Sources for Single-event Effect Radiation Testing (ASSERT)](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602025E/MSL-02/a9) — FY2027 11.9
- Faithful Integration Reverse-engineering and Emulation (FIRE) — FY2027 11.8
- Heterogenous Adaptively Produced Photonic Interfaces (HAPPI) — FY2027 9.8
- Ultra-Wide BandGap Semiconductors (UWBGS) — FY2027 8.6
- Intelligent Generation of Tools for Security (INGOTS) — FY2027 8.3
- Minitherms3D — FY2027 6.3
- NanoWatt Platforms for Sensing, Analysis, and Computation (NaPSAC) — FY2027 6.1
- Material Synthesis Technologies for Universal and Diverse Integration Opportunities (M-STUDIO) — FY2027 5.0
- Intensity-Squeezed Photonic Integration for Revolutionary Detectors (INSPIRED) — FY2027 2.3
- COmpact Front-end Filters at the ElEment-level (COFFEE) — FY2027 2.0
- High Operational Temperature Sensors (HOTS) — FY2027 2.0
- ELectronics for G-band ARrays (ELGAR) — FY2027 —
- Space Power Conversion Electronics (SPCE) — FY2027 —
- Additive Manufacturing of MicrosystEms (AMME) — FY2027 —
- Lasers for Universal Microscale Optical Systems (LUMOS) — FY2027 —
- Scalable On-Array Processing (SOAP) — FY2027 —

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0602025E project MSL-02 (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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