What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project AET-02 of PE 0603469E. 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.
- Update self-sufficiency plans based on projections from members and customer outreach. - Update roadmap with revised assessment of technical and business capabilities. - Improve yield of 3DHI fabrication process modules, including thermocompression bonding, hybrid bonding, and metal patterning. - Establish capability for processing non-silicon material substrates on standard silicon processing equipment. - Develop advanced thermal management solutions for integration in 3DHI assemblies. - Demonstrate user portal for external users to access 3D-ADK and purchase design and prototyping services.
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.
- Develop baseline plan for user access model that addresses membership structure and intellectual property management. - Complete design review of 3DHI process and test vehicles. - Develop and optimize 3DHI fabrication process modules, including thermocompression bonding, hybrid bonding, and metal patterning. - Demonstrate baseline 3DHI test vehicles, including a power amplifier, low noise amplifier, and interposer. - Update design for test, design for manufacturing/yield, and design for reliability standards.
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 | 175.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 175.0 |
This activity is 82% of project AET-02's FY2027 request and 53% of PE 0603469E'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.
4 activities in project AET-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.