What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project MSL-03 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.
- 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.
The FY 2027 increase reflects a shift from initial design to design refinement and fabrication.
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.
- Fabricate and engineer non-traditional transistor heterostructures with ultralow energy and high-speed switching characteristics. - Design and develop circuits using non-traditional transistor heterostructures for basic logic gates. - Perform theoretical analysis and modeling of non-traditional transistor materials and heterostructures to predict performance in logic circuits.
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 | 9.2 |
| FY2027 | Request | 25.9 |
This activity is 39% of project MSL-03's FY2027 request and 1.6% 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.
6 activities in project MSL-03
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.