# Project 912 — ME U.S. ME Dominance-Dev

**Program element:** 0604294D8Z — Trusted and Assured Microelectronics  
**Project:** 912  
**Component:** Defense-Wide  
**Appropriation:** 0400 — RDT&E, Defense-Wide  
**Budget Activity:** 4 — Advanced Component Development & Prototypes  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604294D8Z/912  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604294D8Z

## Summary

Project 912 — ME U.S. ME Dominance-Dev requests $25.6M in FY2027, 16% of the $156.7M requested for program element 0604294D8Z, down 82% on FY2026. 1 R-2A activity decomposes the request.

## Funding profile

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 140.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 139.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 25.6 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 29.2 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 30.9 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 32.2 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 32.2 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0604294D8Z; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## What project 912 buys

This project promotes microelectronics innovation and creates an evidence-based assured microelectronics pipeline and strategic partnerships for assuring field programmable gate array (FPGA) devices, supply chain awareness and security, and workforce development. It will strengthen workforce expertise and ensure DoW has access to the next generation of advanced technology by utilizing an evidence-based assurance approach. This approach enables management of microelectronics security that is commensurate with program risk throughout the product pipeline and maintain the United States as the global source for high-end, secure, and reliable microelectronics components. In addition, this project will develop new data driven risk-based assurance methodologies for supply chain protection to strengthen security while improving access, without exposing sensitive intellectual property (IP) to the foundry and requiring post-manufacture validation of foundry products. The project will develop evidence-based assured design concepts in manufactured systems, enabling a formal risk-based approach to protection techniques.

**R-3 lines of work:** Product Development.

## Activities (R-2A) — 1

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Create an Evidence-Based Assured Microelectronics Pipeline – Development | 140.0 | 139.5 | 25.6 | −82% | [a0](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604294D8Z/912/a0) |

> Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan. In the request year they partition this project exactly; in earlier years they can under-cover it.

### Create an Evidence-Based Assured Microelectronics Pipeline – Development

Conduct vulnerability analyses of intellectual property, conduct hardware assessments, integrated circuit verification and validation analyses. Conduct microelectronics situational awareness activities. Develop toolkits and establish transitions for developed toolkits for supply chain vulnerability awareness and bitstream analysis.

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604294D8Z/912/a0

## What is NOT on this page

Congressional marks, the R-2 mission description and acquisition strategy, the industry vs government split of the whole request, and related program elements are recorded at **program-element** grain — an NDAA mark lands on a PE, never on a project. They are at https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604294D8Z.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0604294D8Z project 912 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0604294D8Z")`.

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