What project MSL-03 buys
The Electronic Technology project pursues materials, devices, and architectures that will enable dramatic improvements over the current state-of-the-art. Areas of particular emphasis of this work include the development of techniques for advanced fabrication and test and the development of technologies that support electronics reuse and recycling. These technologies will reduce the barriers to designing and fabricating advanced technologies and exploit improved manufacturing techniques to provide these advanced technologies faster and cheaper to the warfighter. Prior to FY 2026, efforts in this Project were funded in PE 0602716E, Project ELT-01.
Project MSL-03 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 87.8 |
| FY2027 | Request | 65.9 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 101.8 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 121.2 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 136.9 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 138.5 |
6 accomplishments / planned programs
The R-2A exhibit — the only level of the budget that describes work that has not happened yet. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only, no five-year plan. 3 of them describe FY2027 work in enough detail to have their own page; the rest are shown here in full. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
- Fabricate and engineer non-traditional heterostructures with ultralow energy and high-speed switching characteristics. - Design and develop basic computational circuits using non-traditional transistor heterostructures. - Begin radiation hardness testing.
Read the FY2027 plan →- Demonstrate control of a single catalyst type with different control physics. - Demonstrate size and complexity scaling. - Increase the accuracy of both models and fabrication approaches over a larger number of attachment sites and catalyst types.
Read the FY2027 plan →- Demonstrate analog hardware at intermediate scales. - Demonstrate analog feature extraction and classification techniques at intermediate scales. - Demonstrate training, inferencing and compression algorithms at intermediate scales.
Read the FY2027 plan →FY2027 planned work - Perform initial design photonic and optical components using optimized materials systems and device wavelengths. - Evaluate applications areas that could be enabled using novel concepts in electronics that are inaccessible by traditional electronics. - Investigate the benefits of non-traditional circuits as compared to traditional electronics. - Initiate the design and development of photonic, electronics, MEMS, or quantum hybrid circuits.
FY2026 to FY2027 change The FY 2027 decrease reflects the strategic prioritization of concepts and studies investments.
FY2026 plans — current year - Perform study of current state-of-the-art for the integration of organic and electronic devices to include potential use cases. - Perform study of the current state-of-the-art materials systems and wavelengths used in photonic and optical components. - Evaluate applications areas that could be enabled using non-traditional photonic and optical wavelengths. - Initiate design activity for the integration of organic and electronic devices for relevant use cases.
FY2026 to FY2027 change The FY 2027 decrease reflects program completion.
FY2026 plans — current year - Achieve high velocity motion with a tethered microsystem on chip exceeding the fracture limit of polycrystalline silicon. - Perform preliminary experiments to demonstrate the shock and vibration immunity of mechanical frequency combs. - Demonstrate stability of surfaces to extend the long-term bias stability and aging of sensors.
FY2026 to FY2027 change The FY 2027 decrease reflects program completion.
FY2026 plans — current year - Explore the interaction of new waveforms and sensing targets to determine properties at stand-off distances. - Use experimental data to refine the theory and assess utility of these novel methods for future defense purposes.