What project 654522 buys
The Next Generation Survivor Radio (NGSR) program is an Air Force led effort to replace the aging Combat Survivor Evader Locator (CSEL) Radio supporting the entire Joint force. The Department of Defense (DoD) plans for the NGSR Handheld Radio (HHR) system and support equipment to serve as the primary communications link for all DoD aircrew who become isolated personnel (IP). NGSR will replace legacy satellite communication and encryption methods to deliver communication capability in support of the Joint Personnel Recovery Agency (JPRA) Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR) mission to locate, authenticate, and communicate with Joint forces who become IPs. NGSR provides secure, over-the-horizon, two-way data communications and precise geo-positioning information to rescue forces. Additionally, NGSR is able to operate in anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) environments by providing a National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) approved low probability of intercept/low probability of detection communication pathway for IPs. NGSR is one node of an overall personnel recovery network which includes multiple on-orbit satellite constellations, geographically dispersed satellite ground stations, joint service CSAR communication devices, and a Joint Personnel Recovery Center (JPRC) cloud-based web application. NGSR plans to incorporate modern encryption technology to comply with current National Security Agency (NSA) cryptographic standards. The Air Force will meet system objectives by executing a competitive Rapid Prototyping effort to design and build a production-ready NGSR artifact. Once prototyped, the Air Force, Army, Navy, and Marine Corps will field the NGSR prototype to their respective services via a follow-on sole-source Rapid Fielding production contract. FY 2027 efforts include completing testing and integration for the Beyond Line of Sight (BLOS) and Hand Held radio hardware, as well as, completing integration of cloud-based data processing, web application and national encryption assets. The program will also complete the National Security Agency (NSA) certification of the hand held radio. Finally the program will complete development of all support equipment.
- Product Development
- Support
- Test and Evaluation
- Management Services
Project 654522 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 | 9.8 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 51.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 16.0 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 14.1 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 8.4 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 6.6 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 6.8 |
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.
-Complete test and integration of Beyond Line of Sight (BLOS) capability -Complete test and Integration of Hand Held Radio -Complete the integration of Cloud-based data processing -Complete the integration of Web Application -Complete the integration of National encryption assets -Complete the NSA Certification of Hand Held Radio…
Read the FY2027 plan →Named performers on project 654522
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.