# Test and Evaluation

**R-2A activity** of project 2292 — Unmanned Air Systems (Intel)  
**Program element:** 0305232M — RQ-11 UAV  
**Component:** U.S. Navy · **Budget Activity:** 7  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0305232M/2292/a2  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0305232M

## Summary

This activity requests $12.7M in FY2027, 64% of project 2292, up 6041% on FY2026. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2026–FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2027 planned work.** - Conduct System Readiness Assessments (SRAs) and evaluate emerging UAS platforms, software, payloads, and ancillary components for the Family of Small UAS (FoSUAS). - Perform third-party cybersecurity and compliance testing to meet National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and DoW drone policy requirements. - Test and validate M-Code GPS, 5G/LTE, anti-jamming, and SATCOM capabilities to ensure resilient Beyond-Line-of-Sight (BLOS) operations in contested environments. - Execute operational testing with Organic Precision Fires (OPF) to measure Target Location Error (TLE) and validate system lethality. - Assess advanced tactics including swarming, marsupial employment, and system performance in Counter-UAS (C-UAS) scenarios. - Validate Unmanned Common Controller (UCC) interoperability and conduct maritime testing to ensure systems are effective aboard USMC vessels. - Evaluate onboard edge processing and Alternative Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) solutions.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** The increase in Test & Evaluation from FY2026 to FY2027 increase enables a critical shift from basic sustainment testing to a comprehensive, operationally focused evaluation required to prove the system meets the advanced performance parameters of the CDD. This funds a robust test architecture to validate system lethality, survivability, and interoperability in threat-representative scenarios. Key activities enabled by this increase include kinetic testing/certifications, performance validation in GPS-denied and contested spectrum environments, and operational assessments of advanced capabilities like swarming and C-UAS resilience.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** - Continue integration, operational assessment, and implementation of SRA for FoSUAS platforms. - Continue to perform NDAA sections 817 (FY2023) and 848 (FY2020) Compliance testing on systems; Cybersecurity and NDAA compliance testing is performed by a third-party vendor to ensure appropriate levels for data encryption, implementation of multi-factor authentication, and risk assessments. - Continue assessment of UAS, software applications, payload/sensor capabilities, and other UAS ancillary components. - Refine CDS integration alternatives.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.4 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.2 |
| FY2027 | Request | 12.7 |

> Prior, current and budget year only — an R-2A activity carries no five-year plan. It sums exactly into its project in the request year and not necessarily in any other.

## Other activities in project 2292

- Product Development — FY2027 5.2
- Support — FY2027 2.0

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Navy RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0305232M project 2292 (PB PB2027). Narrative is the government's own text.
- **No marks, no contractors at this grain** — congressional marks land on the program element and R-3 performers on the project.
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_activity`.

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