# Army Collaborative Research and Technology Alliances

**R-2A activity** of project AB7 — Army Collaborative Research and Tech Alliances  
**Program element:** 0601104A — University and Industry Research Centers  
**Component:** U.S. Army · **Budget Activity:** 1  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601104A/AB7/a19  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601104A/AB7

> **NEW START.** $29.7M requested in FY2027 with no prior-year and no current-year funding.

## Summary

This activity requests $29.7M in FY2027, 62% of project AB7 — a new start with no prior-year and no current-year money. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2027 planned work.** Advanced Energetics Center: Will conduct research on the inclusion of metal particles in energetic material formulations to enhance energy release; explore new techniques for optical and thermal characterization of post-detonation analysis; investigate additive manufacture methods to identify structure-function relationships in high-order materials. Adversarial-Resilient Cyber Effects for Decision Dominance: Will investigate cyber-physical network models with representations of cyber attacks and defense mechanisms for multi-domain missions and game-theoretic resilience measures based on these models; combine the power of Large Language Models (LLMs) with relevant repositories of unstructured cybersecurity reference data to investigate deployable detection sensors on demand; develop a dynamic learning system designed for adversarial environments which is a model library that evolves in tandem with the network's changes and counters resource limitations by streamlining the models within this library. Army Artificial Intelligence Innovation Institute (A2I2): Will incorporate Windows of Opportunity (WoO) information into a multi-agent command-and-control system; build a 3-D belief model to infer unobserved areas of the battlefield to enable shared predictive situational understanding; design an illustrative command-and-control use-case featuring a Large Pre-Trained Model application. Army Military Academic: Will conduct foundational research through annual, competitively awarded seedling efforts and develop mechanisms to build capabilities at Senior Military Colleges in areas aligned to Army priorities while providing recommendations for policy and strategy in operations, business, and doctrine domains for Army modernization. Distributive and Collaborative Intelligent Systems: Will apply adversarial team behaviors developed in simulation to physical platforms to contribute to experimentation and establish concept feasibility; assess experimental framework for applying formalisms and planning techniques that utilize advances in artificial intelligence (AI) foundation models for language to bridge multiple program-developed behaviors and AI models in a cohesive mission-planning framework for small teams of unmanned agents; apply autonomy research evaluation framework for understanding contributions of individual algorithms to a complex multi-step operation. Full Spectrum Structural Color (FSSC): Will explore self-assembly for novel architectures with dynamic response to external stimuli; study the creation of hierarchical material structures to identify key parameters and properties for structural color; validate computational models of complex composites through experimentation.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** This is not a new start. FY 2027 funding increase reflects the consolidation of other ongoing efforts within this project from Distributed Collaborative Intelligent Systems Technology CTA, Army Artificial Intelligence Innovation Institute (A2I2), Army Advanced Energetics Center, Fundamentals for Quantum Technologies, and Army Military Academic CRA within this Project as well as Program Element (PE) 0601121A (Cyber Collaborative Research Alliance) / Project CB5 (Cyber Collaborative Research Alliance) to support the creation of Army Collaborative Research and Technology Alliances. Funding increase reflects additional research in hierarchical material structures.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2027 | Request | 29.7 |

> 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 AB7

- [Advanced Next Generation Batteries](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601104A/AB7/a21) — FY2027 15.2
- HBCU/MI Outreach — FY2027 3.0
- Internet of Battlefield Things CTA (IoBT CTA) — FY2027 —
- Distributed Analytics and Information Science International Technology Alliance (ITA) — FY2027 —
- Distributed Collaborative Intelligent Systems Technology CTA — FY2027 —
- Neurosciences CRA — FY2027 —
- Identification and characterization of team-level processes for enhancing performance of heterogeneous Soldier-Agent teams CRA — FY2027 —
- Army Artificial Intelligence Innovation Institute (A2I2) — FY2027 —
- Army Radio-Frequency (RF) Electronics Center — FY2027 —
- Army Advanced Biological Control Center — FY2027 —
- Army Advanced Energetics Center — FY2027 —
- Tactical Behaviors for Autonomous Maneuver — FY2027 —
- Fundamentals for Quantum Technologies — FY2027 —
- Convergent Manufacturing for High Performance Material Interfaces — FY2027 —
- Semi-Conductor Modeling Consortium — FY2027 —
- HBCU/MI Research Partnerships — FY2027 —
- Army Military Academic CRA — FY2027 —
- Collective Judgement Formation — FY2027 —
- Novel Robotic Controls — FY2027 —
- High-Throughput Materials Discovery for Extreme Conditions — FY2027 —
- Adaptive War Gaming for Advanced Concept Development (AWARE) — FY2027 —

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Army RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0601104A project AB7 (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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