What project 1982 buys
Airborne Adversary Mission Systems builds upon existing RedNet architecture to enable classified software development and classified hardware integration such as electronic attack, infrared search, Radio Frequency (RF) emulation with encrypted range training data links, such as Tactical Combat Training System (TCTS) and Link 16. This project will enable the aircrew to accurately emulate peer threat capabilities and provide a standalone Adversary Operational Flight Program (OFP)', that can be deployed on any aircraft with RedNet Multi-Layered Obstructed Brokered Bus-Controller & Routing for Advanced Integrated Networks (MOBBrain) avionics architecture and an encrypted range training pod. Primary platforms for development include the F-5, F-16 and F-18 within existing Naval Adversary Squadrons. These systems combined with a classified electronic kneeboard, allows for the development, integration and deployment of adversary mission hardware and software systems without modification of aircraft's existing OFP software. This program will provide for the future ability to participate fully in the Live Virtual Constructive (LVC) environment as well as provide physics and effects-based threat replications for the mission essential training of deploying Fleet aircrews.
- Product Development
- Support
- Test and Evaluation
- Management Services
Project 1982 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 | 5.2 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 15.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 10.4 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 17.2 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 16.4 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 16.1 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 16.4 |
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. Each describes FY2027 work in enough detail to have its own page; the rest are shown here in full. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
Continue hardware and software research and development activities for peer threat representative models, hardware development activities for Infrared Search and Track (IRST), as well as integration of existing onboard combat systems into the RedNet architecture. Development and integration testing of continuous software solutions and…
Read the FY2027 plan →Named performers on project 1982
Performers named in the R-3 exhibit under this project. Share is of the project's whole FY2027 R-3 total — the same denominator the program-element split uses, so the two read on one scale and will not sum to 100% when unnamed or government work is in the mix. Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations.