What project 680 buys
The Office of the Secretary War (OSW) Manufacturing Science and Technology Program (MSTP) concentrates on cross-cutting defense manufacturing needs that are beyond the ability of a single service to address. MSTP projects focus on cross-cutting defense manufacturing advancements and stimulate early development of manufacturing processes and enterprise business practices. The MSTP invests in broad technology initiatives within Advanced Electronics and Optics, Advanced Materials and Composites, Advanced and Emerging Manufacturing Processes, and Advanced Energetics Manufacturing.
Project 680 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 43.4 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 128.2 |
| FY2027 | Request | 81.6 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 120.7 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 164.1 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 129.2 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 99.3 |
4 accomplishments / planned programs
The R-2A exhibit — the only level of the budget that describes work that has not happened yet. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only, no five-year plan. 2 of them describe FY2027 work in enough detail to have their own page; the rest are shown here in full. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
Fund Year 3 of 3 for Carbon Nanotube Fiber Cathodes for High Power Microwave Weapons, Year 3 of 5 for Harnessing Microbe-Sourced Cellulose for Advanced Fiber Manufacturing, Year 2 of 4 for Affordable Hydrogen On-Demand, Year 2 of 4 for Additive Manufacturing for Hypersonic Radomes, and Year 2 of 3 for Powder Granulation for Expanded…
Read the FY2027 plan →Fund year 3 of 4 of Manufacturing Advances in the Scaling of Thin Electro-optic Resources for Making Integrated Niobate Devices (MASTERMIND), Year 2 of 3 for Fiber Laser-Attach for Manufacturability and Environmental Stability (FLAMES), Year 3 of 5 for Advanced Manufacturing of Thin Film Batteries, Year 3 of 3 for Automated Manufacturing…
Read the FY2027 plan →FY2027 planned work Fund Year 2 of 4 for Adaptive Incremental Forming through Optimized Robotic Manufacturing (AI-FORM), Year 1 of 3 for Manufacturing Automation with Turnkey Robotic Inspection & Flexible Finishing Tools (MATRIX) and Year 1 of 3 for Beyond the Black Box: Building Trust in AI for Defect Detection in Additive Manufacturing. Additional funding being applied to the development of advanced manufacturing processes supporting the munitions industrial base.
FY2026 to FY2027 change No change.
FY2026 plans — current year Fund Year 3 of 3 for Nutritionally Tailored Food at the Point of Need, Precision Optical Wind Sensor, Year 2 of 5 for Harnessing Microbe-Sourced Cellulose for Advanced Fiber Manufacturing and continued development of Beacon CONNEX software for DoW ManTech.
FY2025 accomplishments Fund Year 3 of 3 for Joint Clothing and Textile Manufacturing Initiative, Year 2 of 3 for Nutritionally Tailored Food at the Point of Need, Precision Optical Wind Sensor, and Year 1 of 5 for Harnessing Microbe-Sourced Cellulose for Advanced Fiber Manufacturing.
FY2027 planned work Fund Year 2 of 3 for Robotics and Automation for Munitions.
FY2026 to FY2027 change No change.
FY2026 plans — current year Fund Year 1 of 3 for Robotics and Automation for Munitions Production.
FY2025 accomplishments No planned efforts for Advanced Energetics Manufacturing in FY 2025. New proposals demonstrating technical merit may be considered in future subject to budget availability.