# Project 674820 — Sensor Development

**Program element:** 0305206F — Airborne Reconnaissance Systems  
**Project:** 674820  
**Component:** U.S. Air Force  
**Appropriation:** 3600 — RDT&E, Air Force  
**Budget Activity:** 7 — Operational System Development  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0305206F/674820  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0305206F

## Summary

Project 674820 — Sensor Development requests $20.0M in FY2027, 58% of the $34.3M requested for program element 0305206F — a restart: funded in FY2025, zeroed in FY2026, funded again now. 4 R-2A activities decompose the request, 3 new this cycle. Lockheed Martin is the largest named R-3 performer at $5.6M, 28% of the project's FY2027 R-3 total.

## Funding profile

| 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 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0305206F; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## 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.

**R-3 lines of work:** Product Development; Management Services.

## Named R-3 performers

| Performer | $M | Share of this project's FY2027 R-3 total |
|---|---|---|
| Lockheed Martin | 5.6 | 28% |
| Leidos | 5.2 | 26% |

> Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations. Shares need not reach 100% — unnamed and government work is in the denominator.

## Activities (R-2A) — 4

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agile ISR (DRACO) | 0.0 | 0.0 | 10.5 | new | — |
| Agile ISR (AgilePod) | 0.0 | 0.0 | 5.2 | new | — |
| Sensors Open System Architecture | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4.3 | new | — |
| ASARS-@b Tech Demo (front-end) | 20.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | — |

> Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan. In the request year they partition this project exactly; in earlier years they can under-cover it.

### Agile ISR (DRACO) — NEW START

**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.

### Agile ISR (AgilePod) — NEW START

**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.

### Sensors Open System Architecture — NEW START

**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.

## What is NOT on this page

Congressional marks, the R-2 mission description and acquisition strategy, the industry vs government split of the whole request, and related program elements are recorded at **program-element** grain — an NDAA mark lands on a PE, never on a project. They are at https://hitchintel.com/programs/0305206F.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0305206F project 674820 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0305206F")`.

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