# Electronic Warfare Basic Research — Program Element 0601275A

**Program element:** 0601275A  
**Component:** U.S. Army  
**Appropriation:** 2040 — RDT&E, Army  
**Budget Activity:** 1 — Basic Research  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601275A

## Summary

U.S. Army funding falls 33% to a $64.0M request in FY2027 (down from a FY2026 peak), sustained across the five-year plan. In the FY2027 defense authorization, the House funded it in full; the Senate funded it in full; House appropriators funded it in full.

## Funding profile

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 94.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 64.0 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 80.4 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 84.1 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 85.9 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 86.9 |

> Estimate types are not summed — the profile mixes actuals, enacted law, the request, and outyear projections.

## Congressional marks (FY2027)

| Stage | Marked ($M) | Change ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| Request | 64.0 | — |
| House NDAA (HASC) | 64.0 | +0.0 |
| Senate NDAA (SASC) | 64.0 | +0.0 |
| House Approps (HAC-D) | 64.0 | +0.0 |

> FY2027 NDAA authorization marks, as of 2026-07-27. Not appropriations or final law.

## Projects (2)

| Project | Title | FY2025 actual | FY2026 enacted | FY2027 request | Move |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A62 | Army Agile University Tech Collaborative Alliances | — | 56.7 | 35.6 | −37% |
| A61 | Sensing and Electromagnetics for Army Environments | — | 38.2 | 28.4 | −26% |

> Projects are the summable leaves: the program element total is their sum, never added to it.

### Project A62 — Army Agile University Tech Collaborative Alliances

This project supports collaborative basic research to advance science and technology in support of Electronic Warfare (EW). This collaborative work between Army laboratories and centers, private industry, and academia focus on specific Army scientific challenges and enable rapid transition of innovative EW technologies to the Warfighter to enable the Army's Future Force. The collaboration between industry, academia, and the government combines the talents and expertise each member brings with a distinctly different approach to research. Industry partners leverage data and results from commercial applications and an agile, flexible workforce to deal with technology bottlenecks; Academia brings cutting-edge innovation and deep technical expertise; the Army researchers bring insights, concepts, and focus toward solving complex Army EW technology problems. This collaborative approach brings together world class research and develops talent to drive innovation in scientific objectives to enable Army EW applications. Work in this project is performed by the Army Research Laboratory (ARL).

| Activity (R-2A) | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tactical Edge Cognitive Computing (TECC) | — | 4.7 | — |
| Cyber Electromagnetic Convergence | — | 4.5 | — |
| Internet of Battlefield Things CTA | — | 2.5 | — |
| Adaptive Wavefront Control | — | 3.7 | — |
| Thorium-229 for Precision Timing Nuclear Clocks | — | 3.5 | — |
| Full Spectrum Structural Color | — | 4.3 | — |
| Long-lived, Low C-SWaP, RF Spectrum Sensing and Geolocation (LL-RFSS) | — | 5.0 | — |
| Ultrawide Bandgap RF Center | — | 4.5 | — |
| Semiconductor Consortium | — | 2.3 | — |
| Interfacial Chemo-Mechanics | — | 3.5 | — |
| Curving THz Wireless Data Links Around Obstacles | — | 3.4 | — |
| Intelligent Sensing Nodes | — | 3.6 | — |
| Shared World Models for Enhanced Formation Dominance | — | 5.3 | — |
| Foundational Quantum Sensing | — | 5.9 | — |
| Advanced Sensing, Measurement, and Timing | — | — | 14.7 |
| Novel Materials and Architectures for High Power Applications | — | — | 6.8 |
| Control and Propagation of Electromagnetic Radiation | — | — | 14.1 |

> R-2A activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan. Coverage is partial, so count them, never total them.

### Project A61 — Sensing and Electromagnetics for Army Environments

This project conducts readily adaptable basic research on novel materials, radar, sensing, precision measurements and novel devices to address a range of scientific problems for Electronic Warfare (EW) applications. Efforts include novel materials research, modeling and simulation of integrated multi-modal sensing, novel designs of operational energy and scalable power for EW applications. The research has applications to operational energy, sensors, distributed sensor fusion, distributed radar, alternative position, navigation, and timing (PNT) systems for Global Positioning System (GPS)-denied environments, High Energy Laser (HEL) technologies and applications in the EW domain. Work in this project is performed by the Army Research Laboratory (ARL).

| Activity (R-2A) | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beyond Novel Materials | — | 1.1 | — |
| Physics Research for Army Innovation | — | 2.1 | — |
| Fundamentals for Precision Measurement for Contested Environments | — | 0.9 | 0.9 |
| High Energy Laser (HEL) Materials and Thermal Management | — | 1.1 | 1.1 |
| Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Complex Phenomena | — | 3.5 | — |
| Semiconductor Modeling for Advanced Electronics | — | 1.2 | — |
| Foundational Distributed Radar | — | 1.2 | 1.2 |
| Foundational Sensing | — | 2.0 | 2.0 |
| Complex Effects Understanding and Modeling | — | 6.0 | 4.8 |
| Compact Non-Linear Elements and Non-Linear Arrays | — | 6.0 | — |
| Novel Materials and Architectures for Emerging Bands and Modalities | — | 4.6 | — |
| Ultra-Short Pulse Laser Research | — | 0.5 | 0.4 |
| Electronic Warfare (EW) Enabling Electronic and Photonic Physical Phenomena (E3P3) | — | — | 18.1 |

> R-2A activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan. Coverage is partial, so count them, never total them.

## Mission & acquisition strategy

This Program Element (PE) builds fundamental scientific knowledge contributing to the sustainment of United States (US) Army scientific and technological superiority in electronic warfare, electromagnetic spectrum sciences, and associated enabling and supporting technologies. This PE investigates new concepts and technologies for the Army's future force and provides the means to exploit scientific breakthroughs and avoid technological surprises. The research focuses on understanding and exploiting the electromagnetic spectrum to ensure dominance in contested environments.

## Related program elements

- [0601102A — Defense Research Sciences](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601102A) (Army)
- [0606942N — Assessments & Evals Cyber Vulnerabilities](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0606942N) (Navy)
- [0602675D8Z — Social Sciences for Environmental Security](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602675D8Z) (Defense-Wide)
- [0603758N — Navy Warfighting Exp & Demo](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603758N) (Navy)

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Army RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-3, PE 0601275A (PB PB2027); FY2027 NDAA committee marks (as of 2026-07-27).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0601275A")`.

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