What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 350 of PE 0603680D8Z. 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.
Continue to develop and offer next generation integrated photonic circuit fabrication and test, assembly, and packaging (TAP) capabilities to the U.S. ecosystem. Extend design and training opportunities to continue to grow the overall integrated photonic circuit ecosystem. Perform targeted work to explore solutions for long-haul and short-haul photonic data networks with reduced power consumption, improve the variety and performance of laser solutions, target heterogeneous integration opportunities, and expand accessibility to low-loss platforms for sensing and quantum applications.
A decrease of $4.460 million from FY 2026 to FY 2027 realignment of the DoW armed services requirements being moved to Manufacturing Modernization Sprints.
FY2025–FY2026: what came before
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
Continue to develop and offer next generation integrated photonic circuit fabrication and test, assembly, and packaging (TAP) capabilities to the U.S. ecosystem. Extend design and training opportunities to continue to grow the overall integrated photonic circuit ecosystem. Perform targeted work to explore solutions for long-haul and short-haul photonic data networks with reduced power consumption, improve the variety and performance of laser solutions, target heterogeneous integration opportunities, and expand accessibility to low-loss platforms for sensing and quantum applications.
Continue to develop and offer next generation integrated photonic circuit fabrication and test, assembly, and packaging (TAP) capabilities to the U.S. ecosystem. Extend design and training opportunities to continue to grow the overall integrated photonic circuit ecosystem. Perform targeted work to improve the variety and performance of laser solutions and expand accessibility to low-loss platforms for sensing and quantum applications.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 16.5 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 15.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 11.1 |
This activity is 4.8% of project 350's FY2027 request and 1.9% of PE 0603680D8Z'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.
11 activities in project 350
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.