# Microsystem Induced CAtalysis (MICA)

**R-2A activity** of project MSL-03 — ELECTRONIC 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-03/a0  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602025E/MSL-03

## Summary

This activity requests $18.2M in FY2027, 28% of project MSL-03, down 12% 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 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.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** The FY 2027 decrease reflects the shift from demonstration and characterization of a new microsystem to refining its accuracy and scaling its size.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** - Demonstrate and integrate initial set of catalysts and microsystems. - Characterize catalyst attachment physics to microsystem and control of catalytic activity by microsystem and feedback performance characteristics to simulation teams. - Feed forward simulation results to experimental teams, and demonstrate and integrate second set of catalysts and microsystems.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | Enacted | 20.6 |
| FY2027 | Request | 18.2 |

> 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-03

- [Fast and Curious](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602025E/MSL-03/a2) — FY2027 25.9
- [Scalable Analog Neural networks (ScAN)](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602025E/MSL-03/a1) — FY2027 12.3
- Electronic Technology Studies and Concepts — FY2027 9.5
- Highly Accelerated Learnings of Vibratory Systems (HALOVS) — FY2027 —
- Emon — FY2027 —

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0602025E project MSL-03 (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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