# Project A62 — Army Agile University Tech Collaborative Alliances

**Program element:** 0601275A — Electronic Warfare Basic Research  
**Project:** A62  
**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/A62  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601275A

## Summary

Project A62 — Army Agile University Tech Collaborative Alliances requests $35.6M in FY2027, 56% of the $64.0M requested for program element 0601275A, down 37% on FY2026. 17 R-2A activities decompose the request, 3 new this cycle.

## Funding profile

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | Enacted | 56.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 35.6 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 47.8 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 50.7 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 52.2 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 52.8 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0601275A; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## What project A62 buys

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).

## Activities (R-2A) — 17

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Advanced Sensing, Measurement, and Timing | — | — | 14.7 | new | [a14](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601275A/A62/a14) |
| Control and Propagation of Electromagnetic Radiation | — | — | 14.1 | new | [a16](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601275A/A62/a16) |
| Novel Materials and Architectures for High Power Applications | — | — | 6.8 | new | — |
| Tactical Edge Cognitive Computing (TECC) | — | 4.7 | — | −100% | — |
| Cyber Electromagnetic Convergence | — | 4.5 | — | −100% | — |
| Internet of Battlefield Things CTA | — | 2.5 | — | −100% | — |
| Adaptive Wavefront Control | — | 3.7 | — | −100% | — |
| Thorium-229 for Precision Timing Nuclear Clocks | — | 3.5 | — | −100% | — |
| Full Spectrum Structural Color | — | 4.3 | — | −100% | — |
| Long-lived, Low C-SWaP, RF Spectrum Sensing and Geolocation (LL-RFSS) | — | 5.0 | — | −100% | — |
| Ultrawide Bandgap RF Center | — | 4.5 | — | −100% | — |
| Semiconductor Consortium | — | 2.3 | — | −100% | — |
| Interfacial Chemo-Mechanics | — | 3.5 | — | −100% | — |
| Curving THz Wireless Data Links Around Obstacles | — | 3.4 | — | −100% | — |
| Intelligent Sensing Nodes | — | 3.6 | — | −100% | — |
| Shared World Models for Enhanced Formation Dominance | — | 5.3 | — | −100% | — |
| Foundational Quantum Sensing | — | 5.9 | — | −100% | — |

> 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.

### Advanced Sensing, Measurement, and Timing — NEW START

Foundational Quantum Sensing: Will investigate potential advantage of enhanced imaging capabilities using quantum sensors and quantum interferometric techniques; investigate ion detection as a possible dramatic improvement to sensor readout methods and compare with spectroscopic readout techniques; investigate nonlinear coupling regime…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601275A/A62/a14

### Control and Propagation of Electromagnetic Radiation — NEW START

Adaptive Wavefront Control: Will examine the effects of surface texture on adaptive optics; investigate novel system architectures to minimize cooling requirements; analyze computing requirements necessary for design calculations. Attritable RF EW High Power (ARF-WHiP): Will investigate designs to increase carrier mobility and blocking…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601275A/A62/a16

### Novel Materials and Architectures for High Power Applications — NEW START

**FY2027 planned work.** Semi Conductor Consortium: Will identify physics gaps in three-dimensional (3D) technology-computer-aided design (TCAD) models in ultra-wide band gap RF and power-switching devices through experimental validation. Ultrawide Bandgap RF Center: Will examine the design and synthesis of low defect density, high carrier mobility materials; explore structure and scaling strategies for achieving enhanced device performance; investigate novel modeling tools to identify key parameters necessary for increased device reliability and function.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** FY 2027 funding increase reflects the consolidation of other ongoing efforts within this project from Semi Conductor Consortium, and Ultrawide Bandgap RF Center to support the creation of Novel Materials and Architectures for High Power Applications. Funding increase supports additional research in the areas of semi conductors.

### Tactical Edge Cognitive Computing (TECC)

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Funding decrease reflects realignment to Advanced Sensing, Measurement, and Timing within this project.

**FY2026 plans — current year.** Will research foundational integrated circuit physical design methods for new design tools; research digital integrated circuit design; explore materials suitable for ferroelectric field-effect transistor (FeFET) circuits; study appropriate algorithms to integrate with circuits for computation; research circuits for edge inferencing for seismic, acoustic, and electronic warfare (EW) signals; explore non-von Neumann compute architecture for Army edge inferencing.

### Cyber Electromagnetic Convergence

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Funding decrease reflects realignment to Control and Propagation of Electromagnetic Radiation within this project.

**FY2026 plans — current year.** Will explore the signaling pathway from EMS activity to information processing and decision-making in complex EM-cyber systems; investigate new concepts of EMS payloads that could efficiently induce cyber effects with limited information; examine the generation of complex broadband waveforms within non-conventional EM; analyze new game theoretic insights for the interactions between multiple EMS-cyber agents.

### Internet of Battlefield Things CTA

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Funding decrease reflects realignment to Advanced Sensing, Measurement, and Timing within this project.

**FY2026 plans — current year.** Will conduct research to safely exploit vast amounts of data from uncontrolled assets to reduce information uncertainty; explore intelligent network partitioning to support cooperative data communication, fusion, and processing in a distributed manner; conduct experiments with increased complexity of inference tasks to provide more robust solutions to occlusion, adversarial disruption, and degraded environments.

### Adaptive Wavefront Control

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Funding decrease reflects realignment to Control and Propagation of Electromagnetic Radiation within this project.

**FY2026 plans — current year.** Will study mode superposition and turbulence effects on coherent beam combination; explore novel reflectometry techniques for object classification in controlled and ambient conditions; investigate artificial intelligence/machine learning identified concepts for high-speed inverse design of optics systems.

### Thorium-229 for Precision Timing Nuclear Clocks

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Funding decrease reflects realignment to Advanced Sensing, Measurement, and Timing within this project.

**FY2026 plans — current year.** Will examine the relationship between the Th-229 nuclear transition and host material phonon and optical behaviors; investigate computational methods to identify electronic structure coupling within the Th-229 materials; conduct experiments to characterize the effects of the external conditions on the nuclear transition.

### Full Spectrum Structural Color

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Funding decrease reflects realignment to Control and Propagation of Electromagnetic Radiation within this project.

**FY2026 plans — current year.** Will study coupled photonic phenomena to examine light-matter interactions in the UV and IR; investigate structure-function relationships of different material geometries; conduct experiments to analyze the tunability of advanced three-dimensional structures for multi-functional behaviors; explore novel synthesis and fabrication techniques to coat, paint, pattern, and print structural color features onto surfaces.

### Long-lived, Low C-SWaP, RF Spectrum Sensing and Geolocation (LL-RFSS)

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Funding decrease reflects realignment to Control and Propagation of Electromagnetic Radiation within this project.

**FY2026 plans — current year.** Will explore widely tunable RF filters providing passive voltage amplification for electronic warfare (EW) spectrum sensing, including the reduction and limits of coupled modes and high electromechanical coupling factor resonators; study the acoustic modulation of dielectric breakdown in sub-micron features and the generated frequency content associated with capacitor discharge through the resulting ionized gas for EA relevant circuits; investigate phase and modulation detection architectures and ultra-low power draw, low-noise amplifiers that are compatible with high RF circuit impedances; investigate feed-forward and other noise mitigation techniques in nanoscale gap structures applicable to Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) RF power detection; research highly tunable, ultra-low power, RF varactors, including fundamental issues associated with long-term biased stability, such as dielectric charging and time dependent surface affects.

### Ultrawide Bandgap RF Center

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Funding decrease reflects realignment to Novel Materials and Architectures for High Power Applications within this project.

**FY2026 plans — current year.** Will investigate UWBG material performance under high power and temperature operation; explore novel design architectures to enhance UWBG material properties; validate the use of physics informed artificial intelligence/machine learning to guide discovery and design of materials and device assemblies; conduct research integrating theory, modeling, and experimentation to identify novel material properties that permit function at high power, high frequency, and high temperature in tandem.

### Semiconductor Consortium

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Funding decrease reflects realignment to Novel Materials and Architectures for High Power Applications within this project.

**FY2026 plans — current year.** Will investigate full three-dimensional device simulation capability for ultrawide band gap devices, including electrical/thermal transport physics; utilize model to develop preliminary designs for ultrawide band gap power devices.

### Interfacial Chemo-Mechanics

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Funding decrease reflects realignment to Novel Materials and Architectures for High Power Applications within this project.

**FY2026 plans — current year.** Will identify in situ characterization methods to understand fundamental electro-mechanical microscopic degradation mechanisms for ceramic and polymeric electrolytes; investigate regenerative electrode/electrolyte materials science and mechanisms enabling self-healing solid-state interfaces; explore ceramic/conducting oxide processing and synthesis to produce stable thin-film interfaces.

### Curving THz Wireless Data Links Around Obstacles

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Funding decrease reflects realignment to Control and Propagation of Electromagnetic Radiation within this project.

**FY2026 plans — current year.** Will investigate the theory behind self-accelerating beams (SABs) that impart their unique properties and propagation behaviors; conduct experiments to characterize the behavior of SABs and explore their generation, transport and detection; identify network assemblies that leverage SABs for multi-node communication array.

### Intelligent Sensing Nodes

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Funding decrease reflects realignment to Advanced Sensing, Measurement, and Timing within this project.

**FY2026 plans — current year.** Will explore novel multi-dimensional materials and architectures capable of seamless integration of sensors and processors within a single device for high performance sensing and computing; investigate three-dimensional adaptive structures capable of dynamic reconfiguration based on real-time stimuli input; conduct experiments to identify and leverage computational models to decode neurological decision-making to inform the design of neuromorphic circuits.

### Shared World Models for Enhanced Formation Dominance

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Funding decrease reflects realignment to Advanced Sensing, Measurement, and Timing within this project.

**FY2026 plans — current year.** Will investigate methods for establishing and propagating shared world models, including threat assessments, within human-agent teams; examine strategies for disparate agents and humans to develop mutual understanding of strengths, weaknesses, and capabilities of adversarial communications capabilities towards the identification of opportunities to deploy electronic warfare payloads to disrupt communications; explore a layered security approach for resilient communications across human-autonomous agent teams for electronic protection; conduct research to develop frameworks for effective learning from collective experience based on data gathering and analysis of electromagnetic signals; study communications paradigms that facilitate effective information exchange within human-agent teams.

### Foundational Quantum Sensing

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Funding decrease reflects realignment to Advanced Sensing, Measurement, and Timing within this project.

**FY2026 plans — current year.** Will investigate methods for and fundamental limits of measuring angle of arrival of RF signals using quantum sensors; investigate methods to improve signal-to-noise for small size, high-spatial-resolution electromagnetic sensors; investigate methods for rapid quantum material characterization for improved quantum sensor; investigate methods using low-size, weight, and power (SWaP) resonators for ultrahigh sensitivity magnetometry; investigate fast, high-fidelity control and read out of atomic and superconducting systems for sensing and quantum information processing. These discoveries address critical Army needs, including C-C5ISRT priorities through capabilities in secure communication, navigation, advanced timing, full-spectrum electromagnetic operation and situational awareness, and signal concealment.

## 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/0601275A.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Army RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0601275A project A62 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0601275A")`.

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