RDT&E Program Element · President's Budget PB2027

Trojan - RH12

PE 0303032A·U.S. Army·Approp. 2040 — RDT&E·BA5 — System Development & Demonstration
FY2027 Request
$3.9M
Army · RDT&E
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U.S. Army requests $3.9M in FY2027, sustained across the five-year plan. In the FY2027 defense authorization, the House funded it in full; the Senate funded it in full; House appropriators funded it in full. APG leads the industry work.

FY2027 Request
$3.9M
▲ 0.7% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$3.9M
▼ 0.3% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$3.9M
Prior year

For fiscal year 2027, the U.S. Army is requesting $3.9M for Trojan - RH12 under RDT&E program element 0303032A, up 0.7% over FY2026.

Funding trajectory

Funding profile, 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.

03.9FY25ACTUAL3.9FY26ENACTED3.9FY27REQUEST3.9FY283.9FY294.0FY304.0FY31
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual3.9
FY2026Enacted3.9
FY2027Request3.9
FY2028Outyear3.9
FY2029Outyear3.9
FY2030Outyear4.0
FY2031Outyear4.0
Where it sits

Acquisition lifecycle

This program is funded in RDT&E Budget Activity 5 — System Development & Demonstration.

Complete
Research
BA 1–2
Complete
Advanced Technology
BA 3
Complete
Prototyping
BA 4
Current
Development & Fielding
BA 5–7
Inside the program element

1 project rolls up into PE 0303032A

Projects are the summable leaves — the PE total is their sum, never added to it. Program elements and projects carry the full five-year plan; activities stop at the budget year. This PE moves 1% overall, which can hide much larger swings below.

Project RH5

TROJAN - RH12

$3.9MFY2027 request ▲ 1%
FY2025 actual$3.9M
FY2026 enacted$3.9M
FY2027 request$3.9M
Product DevelopmentTest and Evaluation

Trojan research and development supports Trojan Next Generation (Trojan NexGEN), formerly Trojan Classic XXI (TCXXI), future capabilities to fulfill the Army's need for worldwide, deployable, remote, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance support that can dynamically execute operations from sanctuary-based to deployed assets in theater. In support of Army Modernization and Army Force Generation, Trojan NexGEN will provide soldiers with a real-world, hands-on, live and near-real time Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) training environment sustaining, maintaining and enhancing their military occupational specialty proficiencies and specific target expertise while minimizing costs. This operational readiness training will fulfill the Army's larger intelligence training requirement via a secure, collaborative next generation network architecture. A key factor for future force success is the ability to collect, process, and use information about an adversary while preventing similar information from being disclosed. Trojan NexGEN is a combined operational and readiness mission system which uses advanced networking technology to provide seamless rapid radio relay, secure communications to include voice, data, and electronic reconnaissance support to U.S. forces throughout the world. Trojan NexGEN operations may be easily tailored to fit the Secretary of War and Chief of Staff priorities for military intelligence unit training and mission schedules and surged during specific events to involve every aspect of the tactical intelligence collection, processing, analysis and reporting systems. Engineers test and evaluate new digital intelligence collection, processing and dissemination technology using the fielded Trojan NexGEN systems prior to the acquisition of those technologies. These capabilities will enable processing and dissemination of real-time intelligence data from various sources to form the intelligence needed to issue orders inside the threat decision cycle. To that end, it is imperative that Trojan NexGEN keeps pace with digitization initiatives to respond aggressively to the emerging intelligence communication threat.

Accomplishments / planned programs (R-2A) — prior, current and budget year only
Integrate Direction Finding and geo-location▲ 1%
FY2025 actual$1.3M
FY2026 enacted$1.3M
FY2027 request$1.3M

FY2027 planned work Will continuously adapt/improve the latest Direction Finding (DF) and geolocation technologies for integration into Trojan NexGEN systems in accordance with Joint Interface Control Document (JICD) 4.2., and JICD 4.2 ELINT (JEL). Will utilize field based risk reduction exercises to test and evaluate integrated technologies of the overall Trojan Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Enterprise. Will continue to research and test for the integration of Electronics Intelligence (ELINT) capabilities. Will resource labor for one MAT DEV technologist, two MAT DEV software engineers and two MAT DEV HW engineers accounted for in the Integrate Direction Finding (DF) and geolocation…

FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding increase reflects economic adjustment.

FY2026 plans — current year Will continuously adapt/improve the latest Direction Finding (DF) and geolocation technologies for integration into Trojan NexGEN systems in accordance with Joint Interface Control Document (JICD) 4.2., and JICD 4.2 ELINT (JEL). Will utilize field based risk reduction exercises to test and evaluate integrated technologies of the overall Trojan Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Enterprise. Will continue to research and test for the integration of Electronics Intelligence (ELINT) capabilities. Will resource labor for one MAT DEV technologist, two MAT DEV software engineers and two MAT DEV HW engineers accounted for in the Integrate Direction Finding (DF) and geolocation…

FY2025 accomplishments Continuously adapted/improved the latest Direction Finding (DF) and geolocation technologies for integration into TROJAN NexGEN systems in accordance with Joint Interface Control Document (JICD) 4.2., and JICD 4.2 ELINT (JEL). Utilized field based risk reduction exercises to test and evaluate integrated technologies of the overall TROJAN Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Enterprise. Continued to research and test for the integration of Electronics Intelligence (ELINT) capabilities. Resourced labor for one MAT DEV technologist, two MAT DEV software engineers and two MAT DEV HW engineers accounted for in the Integrate Direction Finding (DF) and geolocation (GL) project.

Enable assured communications for the TROJAN Network architecture (formerly Improve security of the TROJAN Network architecture).flat
FY2025 actual$0.2M
FY2026 enacted$0.2M
FY2027 request$0.2M

FY2027 planned work Will continue to utilize rapidly emerging Commercial of the shelf (COTS) communications systems enabling low Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP) high bandwidth Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) communication kits. Will continue cyber security efforts to obtain authority to operate on Army networks.

FY2026 plans — current year Will utilize rapidly emerging Commercial of the shelf (COTS) communications systems enabling low Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP) high bandwidth Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) communication kits. Will continue cyber security efforts to obtain authority to operate on Army networks.

FY2025 accomplishments Continued ongoing effort of transitioning Government off the shelf (GOTS) / Commercial of the shelf (COTS) solutions enabling communication in an anti-access/area denial environment to TROJAN production systems. Continued cyber security efforts to obtain authority to operate on Army networks.

Integrate and test specialized hardware/software▲ 1%
FY2025 actual$1.2M
FY2026 enacted$1.2M
FY2027 request$1.2M

FY2027 planned work Will continue development, integration and testing of specialized hardware/software for classified pre-processing and detection of new signals of interest in support of Theater Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) System (TSIGS). Will continue to resource development, integration and testing of GOTS/COTS software. Will continue efforts to develop Trojan Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance enterprise. Will continue efforts to integrate JICD 4.2 across all platforms. Will continue migration of NexGEN Family of system capabilities from rack-based servers and receivers to a C5ISR/EW Modular Open-Source Suite of Standards (CMOSS) configuration to reduce system Size Weight and Power (SWaP) in…

FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding increase reflects economic adjustment.

FY2026 plans — current year Will continue development, integration and testing of specialized hardware/software for classified pre-processing and detection of new signals of interest in support of Theater Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) System (TSIGS). Will continue to resource development, integration and testing of GOTS/COTS software. Will continue efforts to develop Trojan Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance enterprise. Will continue efforts to integrate JICD 4.2 across all platforms. Will continue migration of NexGEN Family of system capabilities from rack-based servers and receivers to a C5ISR/EW Modular Open-Source Suite of Standards (CMOSS) configuration to reduce system Size Weight and Power (SWaP) in…

FY2025 accomplishments Continued integration and testing of specialized hardware/software for classified pre-processing and detection of new signals of interest. Continued to resource development, integration and testing of GOTS/COTS software. Continued efforts to develop TROJAN Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance enterprise. Continued efforts to integrate JICD 4.2 across all platforms. Migration of NexGEN Family of system capabilities from rack based servers and receivers to a C5ISR/EW Modular Open-Source Suite of Standards (CMOSS) configuration to reduce system Size Weight and Power (SWaP).

Research and testing of receivers▲ 1%
FY2025 actual$1.2M
FY2026 enacted$1.2M
FY2027 request$1.2M

FY2027 planned work Will continue research, develop, and test receiver packages for Trojan and TSIGS systems to detect and process non-standard modulations using DSP and SDRs. Will integrate receiver packages to enable additional and wideband frequency ranges for COTS/GOTS Software Defined Radios. Will continue to utilize COTS/GOTS hardware and software frameworks to enable multiple SDRs to cooperate on a common backplane; which also includes DSP processing framework (Photon), receiver hardware resource manager, and single user interface application.

FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding increase reflects economic adjustment.

FY2026 plans — current year Will continue research, develop, and test receiver packages for Trojan and TSIGS systems to detect and process non-standard modulations using DSP and SDRs. Will integrate receiver packages to enable additional and wideband frequency ranges for COTS/GOTS Software Defined Radios. Will continue to utilize COTS/GOTS hardware and software frameworks to enable multiple SDRs to cooperate on a common backplane; which also includes DSP processing framework (Photon), receiver hardware resource manager, and single user interface application.

FY2025 accomplishments Continued research and testing of receiver packages for fixed and transportable TROJAN systems to detect and process non-standard modulations using DSP and SDRs. Integrated receiver packages to enable additional and wideband frequency ranges for COTS/GOTS Software Defined Radios. Continue to utilize COTS/GOTS hardware and software frameworks to enable multiple SDRs to cooperate on a common backplane; which also includes DSP processing framework (Photon), receiver hardware resource manager, and single user interface application.

Congressional action

Congressional marks

Committee marks on the FY2027 request. Adds and cuts are reconciled in conference before they become law.

RequestPresident's Budget
$3.9M
House NDAA (HASC)HASC
$3.9M full · +$0
Senate NDAA (SASC)SASC
$3.9M full · +$0
House Approps (HAC-D)HAC_D
$3.9M full · +$0
unresolved as of 2026-07-27. These are FY2027 authorization marks (NDAA); appropriations and the conference agreement may differ.
Who's building it

Where the FY2027 request goes

Performers named in the R-3 exhibit, resolved into industry, government-lab, and unspecified shares. Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations.

APG
$3.9M · 100%
Integrate Direction Finding and geo-location
Where FY2027 funding flowsShare$M
Industry primes100%3.9
FY2027 request100%3.9
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Program detail

Mission & acquisition strategy

Trojan research and development supports Trojan Next Generation (Trojan NexGEN), formerly Trojan Classic XXI (TCXXI), future capabilities to fulfill the Army's need for worldwide, deployable, remote, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance support that can dynamically execute operations from sanctuary-based to deployed assets in theater. In support of Army Modernization and Army Force Generation, Trojan NexGEN will provide soldiers with a real-world, hands-on, live and near-real time Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) training environment sustaining, maintaining and enhancing their military occupational specialty proficiencies and specific target expertise while minimizing costs.

The Acquisition Strategy for the Trojan NexGEN Systems supported by Trojan RDT&E is to adapt and leverage from Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) and Government Off the Shelf (GOTS) products. Additionally, the Acquisition Strategy leverages off of development by DoW and other Government agencies to the greatest extent possible. Trojan RDT&E is used to fund the development of enhancing these technologies to meet specific user requirements.

Project RH5 — TROJAN - RH12
  • Product Development
  • Test and Evaluation
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FY2027 Department of the Army RDT&E Budget Justification · Exhibits R-2 / R-3 · PE 0303032A (President's Budget PB2027) — and FY2027 NDAA committee marks, as tracked 2026-07-27.
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