What project 902 buys
This project establishes multiple strategic partnerships with existing commercial state-of-the-art (SOTA) domestic foundries to develop a data-driven, evidence-based approach to supply chain protection and demonstrate the assured manufacture of advanced electronic components. It enables the DoW to leverage the rapid advancements in microelectronics technology while maintaining trust and assurance in microelectronics with on shore advanced fabrication capabilities. Successful implementations will transition SOTA technologies into DoW systems and platforms, enable access to multiple on shore commercial microelectronics facilities, establish secure design capabilities, and implement a data-driven evidence-based approach to supply chain protection. Additionally, this project drives collaboration with industry to apply evidence-based assurance methodologies.
- Product Development
Project 902 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 | 52.7 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 80.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 2.1 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 1.9 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 4.4 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 5.7 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 5.7 |
1 accomplishment / planned program
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. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
FY2027 planned work Demonstrate, test and evaluate program-targeted chips in concert with transition partners. These efforts include application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) for communications and imaging applications.
FY2026 to FY2027 change The decrease of $78.66 million between FY 2026 and FY 2027 is due to priority realignment for DoW critical technologies.
FY2026 plans — current year • Maintain program of record access to assured fabrication flow and fund multi-project wafer production runs at multiple SOTA domestic sources. • Enable commercially supported and enduring U.S. logic foundry capability for the DoW. • Develop and demonstrate novel capabilities for design with assurance. Provide access to leading edge domestic wafer foundry ecosystem. • Develop and demonstrate emulation-based evidence-based assurance design flows in leading EDA tools. • Construct domain-specific architectures that leverage commercial intellectual property (IP), EDA, and processes enabling accelerated prototype demonstration and transition. • Develop, evaluate, and initiate insertion of IP…
FY2025 accomplishments Foundry Access and RAMP-C: • Continue to enhance access to SOTA fabrication ecosystem and state-of-the-art (SOTA) U.S. wafer foundry. • Maintain program of record access to assured fabrication flow and fund multi-project wafer production runs at multiple state-of-the-art (SOTA) domestic sources. • Provide access to commercial and critical evidence-based assured dual-use commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) integrated circuits. • Support development of evidence-based assured, custom DoD integrated circuits. • Jump-start commercial use of the domestic foundry by key U.S. fabless companies. • Expand access to design tools including access to 3rd party design modules. • Enable a…