What project 674820 buys
The Sensors Development project used non-recurring engineering activities to support the fabrication, integration, and testing of the Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar system (ASARS) 2C processing system to vastly improve the Air Force's long range, high altitude ISR radar imagery, detection, and tracking capabilities. The Sensors Development project conducted design, development, testing, and fielding efforts. The efforts increased the range, collection capability, interoperability, and processing of the Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar Systems. The Sensors Development efforts advanced the capability of ASARS for U-2 and classified platform employment. ASARS-2B [front-end] & ASARS-2C [back-end] efforts provided critical advancements and risk reduction in SAR/Moving Target Indication capability to be implemented in the future multi-INT, platform agile capability that Next Generation Sensors will provide. The ASARS effort was a fifth generation, deep-look, high-altitude, ISR radar that was to be the foundation for the radar component of the Next Generation Sensors [NGS] family of systems as outlined in the AFROC approved ASARS-2C draft Capabilities Development Document [CDD]. ASARS-2B [front-end] was the antenna and receiver exciter replacement. The ASARS-2C [back end] data processing efforts extended the ASARS-2B [front-end] radar capability using open architecture data processing and multiplatform integration. Open architecture improves performance and lowers cost by facilitating and enabling qualified third-party software vendors to incorporate future multi-ISR capability to advance interoperability across joint operations. ASARS was meant to increase current capability and addresses National Defense Strategy Key Operational Problems.
- Product Development
- Management Services
Project 674820 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 | 20.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 20.0 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 25.0 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 28.0 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 20.3 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 10.3 |
4 accomplishments / planned programs
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. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
FY2027 planned work Reference DRACO effort, project 672002 (Agile ISR).
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding increased due to database error. Reference DRACO effort, project 672002 (Agile ISR). Once corrected, N/A.
FY2027 planned work Reference Agile Pod effort, project 672002 (Agile ISR).
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding increased due to a database error. Reference Agile Pod effort, project 672002 (Agile ISR). Once corrected, N/A.
FY2027 planned work Reference project 672003 (Sensors Open System Architecture).
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding increased due to a database error. Reference project 672003 (Sensors Open System Architecture). Once corrected, N/A.
Named performers on project 674820
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.