What project 1502 buys
The Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance, and Naval Space activity researches and develops technology for the naval force to obtain decisive competitive advantage across the range of naval missions and levels of warfare. This project conducts fundamental research in data science, mathematical optimization, computational and information sciences, command and control (C2), combat systems, communications, cyber security, cyber operations, electromagnetic warfare (EMW), sensing and surveillance, and quantum sciences.
Project 1502 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 | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 57.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 47.6 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 53.1 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 56.2 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 54.7 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 53.0 |
9 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. 1 of them describes FY2027 work in enough detail to have its own page; the rest are shown here in full. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
Quantum Information Sciences: - Continue research of quantum states, devices, phenomena relative to the simulation, information processing and computing performance needs of naval systems. - Continue research on novel techniques for controlling quantum states to improve performance of information processors, sensors and clocks…
Read the FY2027 plan →FY2027 planned work Complex Software Systems and Cybersecurity: - Continue to investigate and explore novel computing concepts that lead toward robust, resilient, and dependable cyber systems. - Continue research on novel methods for attack surface maneuver for cyber physical systems and systems with complex apertures and sophisticated sensing apparatus, to include lightweight decoy synchronization and other resilience techniques. - Continue research on autonomous cyber operations to explore what facets of cyber activities can be done fully autonomously or semi autonomously with human input. - Continue exploration of new alternatives for computing devices and architectures to include chip level security both…
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding decrease from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to reduced research on novel methods for attack surface maneuver for cyber physical systems and systems with complex apertures and sophisticated sensing apparatus, to include lightweight decoy synchronization and other resilience techniques.
FY2026 plans — current year Complex Software Systems and Cybersecurity: - Continue to investigate and explore novel computing concepts that lead toward robust, resilient, and dependable cyber systems. - Continue research on novel methods for attack surface maneuver for cyber physical systems and systems with complex apertures and sophisticated sensing apparatus, to include lightweight decoy synchronization and other resilience techniques. - Continue research on autonomous cyber operations to explore what facets of cyber activities can be done fully autonomously or semi autonomously with human input. - Continue exploration of new alternatives for computing devices and architectures to include chip level security both…
FY2027 planned work Research thrusts in this area include Tactical Communications and Tactical Networks. Tactical Communications: - Continue research regarding novel software coding and modulation techniques to improve the efficiency, capacity and/or resilience of wireless communication systems. - Complete research efforts to develop new techniques for wireless distributed computing and device-to-device communication. - Initiate research zero-power backscatter networks for communications with sensors. Tactical Networks: - Continue research efforts regarding Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning techniques relevant to multi-dimensional Quality-of-Service optimization issues. - Continue research efforts on…
FY2026 to FY2027 change The funding increase due to increased research into robust connectivity and networking in hostile tactical environments.
FY2026 plans — current year Communications and Networks: Research thrusts in this area include Tactical Communications and Tactical Networks. Tactical Communications: - Continue research efforts to develop new techniques for wireless distributed computing and device-to-device communication. - Continue investigations regarding novel software coding and modulation techniques to improve the efficiency, capacity and/or resilience of wireless communication systems. Tactical Networks: - Continue research efforts regarding Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning techniques relevant to multi-dimensional Quality-of-Service optimization issues. - Continue research efforts on the development of cognitive methods and algorithms…
FY2027 planned work - Continue research efforts in Environmentally-informed Decision Theory that focuses on the theory and understanding behind the information processing, analytics, optimization, information content, analysis, decision-making, and decision understanding needed to obtain decisive competitive advantage across the range of naval missions and levels of warfare that are significantly impacted by the environment and predictions of the environment. These efforts will focus on the creation and understanding of algorithms and software technologies that utilize environmental characterization or forecasts along with non-environmental information to support user-cognitive processes. Research efforts…
FY2026 to FY2027 change The funding decrease from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to a realignment within the same PE from PU 1502: C5ISR/Naval Space to PU 1501: Autonomy/AI.
FY2026 plans — current year - Continue research efforts in Environmentally-informed Decision Theory that focuses on the theory and understanding behind the information processing, analytics, optimization, information content, analysis, decision-making, and decision understanding needed to obtain decisive competitive advantage across the range of naval missions and levels of warfare that are significantly impacted by the environment and predictions of the environment. These efforts will focus on the creation and understanding of algorithms and software technologies that utilize environmental characterization or forecasts along with non-environmental information to support user-cognitive processes. Research efforts…
FY2027 planned work Quantum Measurement Architectural Devices: - Continue research efforts regarding the development of protocols for sensing and timekeeping devices based on quantum systems, including clocks with improved short and long-term performance and electromagnetic field sensors. - Continue research into the development of inertial and gravity sensors based on light-atom interferometry. - Continue research efforts on the capabilities of non-equilibrium many-body systems for novel metrology. - Continue research on cooling and trapping of molecules for quantum sensing. - Initiate research on nuclear atomic clock architectures.
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to increased research in nuclear atomic clock architectures.
FY2026 plans — current year Quantum Measurement Architectural Devices: - Continue research efforts regarding the development of protocols for sensing and timekeeping devices based on quantum systems, including clocks with improved short and long-term performance and electromagnetic field sensors. - Continue research into the development of inertial and gravity sensors based on light-atom interferometry. - Continue research efforts on the capabilities of non-equilibrium many-body systems for novel metrology. - Continue research on cooling and trapping of molecules for quantum sensing.
FY2027 planned work - Continue investigations into novel approaches to deep-generative machine learning-based algorithms and architectures for multi-static radar imaging to enable better noise robustness and resolution performance. - Continue research efforts with the overarching objective of establishing the mathematical constructs, techniques, computational procedures, and scientific foundations for analysis/design of signal, image, control, and data generating systems for use in Navy, other DoW, dual-use, or commercial development programs.
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding decrease from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to reduced research efforts with the overarching objective of establishing the mathematical constructs, techniques, computational procedures, and scientific foundations for analysis/design of signal, image, control, and data generating systems for use in Navy, other DoW, dual-use, or commercial development programs.
FY2026 plans — current year - Continue investigations into novel approaches to deep-generative machine learning-based algorithms and architectures for multi-static radar imaging to enable better noise robustness and resolution performance. - Continue research efforts with the overarching objective of establishing the mathematical constructs, techniques, computational procedures, and scientific foundations for analysis/design of signal, image, control, and data generating systems for use in Navy, other DoW, dual-use, or commercial development programs.
FY2027 planned work Research Platforms: - Continue airborne collection of multi-modal signature and phenomenology for fundamental modelling and machine learning research. - Initiate the modification and aircraft certification for collection Airborne high resolution radar clutter and hard target signature data. - Initiate the design and integration for autonomous track and trail delivery from manned aircraft.
FY2026 to FY2027 change The funding increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 reflects increased investment to design and integrate an autonomous track and trail capability on manned aircraft.
FY2026 plans — current year Research Platforms: - Continue airborne collection of multi-modal signature and phenomenology for fundamental modelling and machine learning research.
FY2027 planned work Networked Sensing: - Continue research into physical and quantum limitations of photon detection to enhance understanding of light-matter interactions, beam control, and detection. - Continue research investigations regarding fundamental implications of classical entanglement on imaging and metrology. - Continue research efforts regarding the exploration of highly sensitive, multi-spectral detector materials and active sensing modalities for imaging through clouds, fog, haze and dust. - Continue research efforts to explore novel optical (photonic integrated) processing architectures to significantly increase signal-processing bandwidth and to enable novel, real-time, distributed sensing…
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to increased research into physical and quantum limitations of photon detection to enhance understanding of light-matter interactions, beam control, and detection.
FY2026 plans — current year - Continue research into physical and quantum limitations of photon detection to enhance understanding of light-matter interactions, beam control, and detection. - Continue research investigations regarding fundamental implications of classical entanglement on imaging and metrology. - Continue research efforts regarding the exploration of highly sensitive, multi-spectral detector materials and active sensing modalities for imaging through clouds, fog, haze and dust. - Continue research efforts to explore novel optical processing architectures to significantly increase signal-processing bandwidth and to enable novel, real-time, distributed sensing applications. - Continue research…
FY2026 to FY2027 change The decrease in funding from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to the realignment and consolidation of all expeditionary funding under PE 0601153N to the new Expeditionary Campaigns project number 1510 within this PE. Planned programs have been updated to align to current expeditionary and naval priorities.
FY2026 plans — current year - Complete research into rethinking data security in a speculative, hammerable, and heterogeneous world. - Complete research into third generation network intrusion detection and prevention systems. - Complete research into cyber-secure, power-aware, embedded, distributed, federated learning algorithms on resource constrained, sporadically connected systems. - Complete research into cyber-secure embedded auditable root-of-trust technologies for radio frequency-centric hardware to embed trust and assurance into expeditionary microelectronics.