What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 829 of PE 0603669D8Z. 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.
• Complete selection of Hub projects for execution; complete execution of existing Hub projects; prototyping new microelectronics technologies for DoW and dual-use applications • Execution of Hub operations to enable DoW access to prototyping capabilities and development of the semiconductor talent pipeline. • Transition of Hub projects from the laboratory environment into low-volume prototyping processes and mature advanced technology prototypes for DoW use. • Execution of Hub workforce development models to include internships and specialized training opportunities
Increased to fund the maturation of key technologies through demanding, strategic prototyping projects and transitioning new capabilities / integration of full system prototypes.
FY2025–FY2026: what came before
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.
• Select the FY 2026 Commons Projects to be executed by the Hubs; prototyping for new microelectronics technologies with potential DoW or dual-use applications • Execution of Hubs – access to prototyping capabilities and development of the semiconductor talent pipeline. • Continue execution of FY 2025 Commons Projects; research and prototyping efforts for new microelectronics technologies with potential DoW or dual-use applications • Continue to facilitate transition of novel concepts matured in a laboratory environment into low-volume prototyping processes. • Execution of Hub workforce development models to include internships and specialized training opportunities
• Select the FY2025 Commons Projects to be executed by the Hubs; advanced prototyping efforts for new microelectronics technologies with potential DoD or dual-use applications • Execution of Hubs – access to prototyping capabilities and development of the semiconductor talent pipeline. • Continue execution of FY2024 Commons Projects; advanced prototyping efforts for new microelectronics technologies with potential DoD or dual-use applications • Continue to facilitate transition of novel concepts matured in a low-volume production environment into commercially viable high-volume manufacturing processes.
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) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 260.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 264.6 |
This activity is 100% of project 829's FY2027 request and 100% of PE 0603669D8Z'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.
1 activity in project 829
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 program-element page.