RDT&E Program Element · President's Budget PB2027

TECH Surveil Counter MEAS EQPT

PE 0305128F·U.S. Air Force·Approp. 3600 — RDT&E·BA7 — Operational System Development
FY2027 Request
$9.6M
◆ Development crest → decline
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U.S. Air Force funding ramps 23% to a $9.6M request in FY2027 — the program's peak, before stepping down 95% 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. MRP leads the industry work.

FY2027 Request
$9.6M
▲ 23% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$7.9M
▲ 1597% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$0.5M
Prior year

For fiscal year 2027, the U.S. Air Force is requesting $9.6M for TECH Surveil Counter MEAS EQPT under RDT&E program element 0305128F, up 23% 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.

00.5FY25ACTUAL7.9FY26ENACTED9.6FY27REQUEST0.4FY280.4FY290.4FY300.4FY31
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual0.5
FY2026Enacted7.9
FY2027Request9.6
FY2028Outyear0.4
FY2029Outyear0.4
FY2030Outyear0.4
FY2031Outyear0.4
Where it sits

Acquisition lifecycle

This program is funded in RDT&E Budget Activity 7 — Operational System Development.

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 0305128F

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 23% overall, which can hide much larger swings below.

Project 671931

TECH SURVEIL COUNTER MEAS EQPT

$9.6MFY2027 request ▲ 23%
FY2025 actual$0.5M
FY2026 enacted$7.9M
FY2027 request$9.6M
Product DevelopmentSupport

Technical Surveillance Countermeasures (TSCM) develops future technologies designed to find, fix, track, and neutralize law enforcement and counterintelligence threats to the Department of the Air Force (DAF). The technologies will enable criminal and counterintelligence investigations and operations involving high-tech crimes and cyber activities. The technologies are unique, complex, and the equipment must be continuously updated to ensure state-of-the-art capabilities are utilized to counter increasingly sophisticated threats targeting DAF equities. AFOSI also conducts a Capabilities Based Assessment (CBA) the Law Enforcement Evidence Data Repository (LEEDR) program ongoing at Fort Eisenhower, GA. This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver weapon system capability. The use of such program funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program element 0605827F, 0605828F, 0605829F, 0605831F, 0605832F, 0605833F, 0605898F, 0606398F. In FY2024 $0.000M was expended for civilian pay expenses in this program element, and in FY2025 $0.000M is forecasted for civilian pay expenses in this program element. This program is in Budget Activity 7, Operational System Development because this budget activity includes development efforts to upgrade systems that have been fielded or have received approval for full rate production and anticipate production funding in the current or subsequent fiscal year.

Accomplishments / planned programs (R-2A) — prior, current and budget year only
TSCM▲ 23%
FY2025 actual$0.5M
FY2026 enacted$7.9M
FY2027 request$9.6M

FY2027 planned work Will continue development of law enforcement and counterintelligence restricted tools.

FY2026 to FY2027 change The FY2026 President's Budget submittal did not reflect the FY2027 through FY2030 funding. Therefore, an explanation of the changes between the two budget positions for FY2027 cannot be made in a relevant manner.

FY2026 plans — current year Continuing development of law enforcement and counterintelligence restricted tools.

Congressional action

Congressional marks

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

RequestPresident's Budget
$9.6M
House NDAA (HASC)HASC
$9.6M full · +$0
Senate NDAA (SASC)SASC
$9.6M full · +$0
House Approps (HAC-D)HAC_D
$9.6M 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.

MRP
$3.0M · 31%
Data Management · CPFF
Virtualitics
$1.4M · 15%
Data Synthesis · FFP
Where FY2027 funding flowsShare$M
Industry primes68%6.6
Other / unspecified32%3.1
FY2027 request100%9.6
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Program detail

Mission & acquisition strategy

Technical Surveillance Countermeasures (TSCM) develops future technologies designed to find, fix, track, and neutralize law enforcement and counterintelligence threats to the Department of the Air Force (DAF). The technologies will enable criminal and counterintelligence investigations and operations involving high-tech crimes and cyber activities. The technologies are unique, complex, and the equipment must be continuously updated to ensure state-of-the-art capabilities are utilized to counter increasingly sophisticated threats targeting DAF equities.

Market Research and acquisition channels. These funds will support iterative development of next generation Technical Surveillance Countermeasures (TSCM) capabilities, and specialized law enforcement and counterintelligence restricted tools necessary to counter threats, and exploit cyberspace, digital media storage and mobile audio/visual/data communications for operational and felony-level investigative activities. Market research is continuously conducted jointly with partner DoD and USG entities, and once complete, acquisition channels are coordinated and deconflicted.

Project 671931 — TECH SURVEIL COUNTER MEAS EQPT
  • Product Development
  • Support
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Sources
FY2027 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification · Exhibits R-2 / R-3 · PE 0305128F (President's Budget PB2027) — and FY2027 NDAA committee marks, as tracked 2026-07-27.
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