# Detection Capability Development

**Agency:** Homeland Security  
**Account:** Research and Development  
**Source document:** Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction · p. 4  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/budget/homeland-security/detection-capability-development  

> **Trust:** parsed from the agency Congressional Justification. Approximate, **not summable**, verify at the cited page.

## Funding ($M)

| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FY2025 | enacted | 14.9 |
| FY2026 | CR annualized | 14.9 |

The prior-year column is a CR annualized figure, not an enacted appropriation.


## Homeland Security discretionary budget authority (OMB PBDB — authoritative)

FY2027 $91.40B, FY2026 $88.60B. This is the agency total, not a sum of the parsed lines.


## What this funds

Risk Management R&D - PPA Detection Capability Development Complete solution analysis for the NGM program, conduct test and evaluation of candidate technologies to assess technical risk, and develop preliminary acquisition and program planning documents to support system solution decisions. Continue research to identify existing technical capabilities to enable agnostic detection. Continue development of GATE-U environments to support integration of advanced analytics tools, expansion of MSMDA data analytics, prototyping of sensor network feeds, and creation of cloud infrastructure for next-generation sensor integration. Continue building an AI sandbox for R&D, developing a Google Cloud Platform environment, enhancing GATE-U Azure, and sharing leading technologies across AWS, Azure, and GCP platforms. Continue addressing advanced Technology Demonstrations, emerging technologies, and urgent capability gaps; conduct a mid-phase review for the SNAC project; continue R&D on enhanced biosensors; and initiate a SBIR Phase III project to support DHS CWMD mission needs. Complete spiral development of the ARMOR prototype for RPM-RP systems and transition it to CBP for operational usage.


**Where it sits:** Civilian / Non-Defense › Homeland Security › Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction › Research and Development › Detection Capability Development


*HitchAI is an independent intelligence service, not affiliated with the U.S. government. Civilian line dollars are parsed from agency Congressional Justifications and are approximate.*