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.
- Perform evaluation of novel design techniques for advanced circuits and modules with next generation capabilities. - Initiate a trade study on new hardware architectures that can leverage commercial scaling while preserving their security and lead to superior systems. - Evaluate technologies for the control of advanced materials down to atomic levels. - Perform analysis of application benefits due to advanced microsystems design, architectures, and materials.
The FY 2027 increase reflects studies and concepts initiations including, but not limited to, applied research in design techniques for next generation capabilities, and the evaluation of technologies for the control of advanced materials.
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.
- Evaluate options for advanced material development. - Investigate potentially advantages hardware architectures for relevant applications. - Initiate analysis of application benefits due to advanced microsystems design, architectures, and materials.
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 | 19.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 30.4 |
This activity is 8.3% of project MSL-02's FY2027 request and 1.9% 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.