# Advanced Sensing, Measurement, and Timing

**R-2A activity** of project A62 — Army Agile University Tech Collaborative Alliances  
**Program element:** 0601275A — Electronic Warfare Basic Research  
**Component:** U.S. Army · **Budget Activity:** 1  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601275A/A62/a14  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601275A/A62

> **NEW START.** $14.7M requested in FY2027 with no prior-year and no current-year funding.

## Summary

This activity requests $14.7M in FY2027, 41% of project A62 — 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.** 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 between electromagnetic fields and quantum spins in order to discern if exceptional point operation offers advantage. Internet of Battlefield Things: Will investigate how much environmental domain shift and network changes can be tolerated while ensuring real-time situational awareness of changing adversarial technologies; explore how to dynamically allocate processes to heterogenous devices by monitoring network bandwidth constraints, device resource constraints, and node failures; conduct research to advance the scale of inference and reasoning via cause-effect analysis between control stimuli, blue asset observations, and gray asset wireless traffic. Tactical Edge Cognitive Computing (TECC): Will investigate optimization of ferroelectric materials and processing conditions for non-volatile, stable functionality of ferroelectric field-effect transistor (FeFETs) within the constraints of semiconductor foundries. Thorium-229 (Th-229) for Precision Timing Nuclear Clocks: Will explore laser excitation requirements for the Th-229 nuclear transition; validate theoretical modeling of Th-229 with host materials; identify synergistic material effects for decreased size and power requirements.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** FY 2027 funding increase reflects the consolidation of other ongoing efforts within this project from Foundational Quantum Sensing, Internet of Battlefield Things CTA, and Thorium-229 for Precision Timing Nuclear Clocks to support the creation of Advanced Sensing, Measurement, and Timing. Funding increase supports additional research in the areas of Thorium-229.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2027 | Request | 14.7 |

> 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 A62

- [Control and Propagation of Electromagnetic Radiation](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601275A/A62/a16) — FY2027 14.1
- Novel Materials and Architectures for High Power Applications — FY2027 6.8
- Tactical Edge Cognitive Computing (TECC) — FY2027 —
- Cyber Electromagnetic Convergence — FY2027 —
- Internet of Battlefield Things CTA — FY2027 —
- Adaptive Wavefront Control — FY2027 —
- Thorium-229 for Precision Timing Nuclear Clocks — FY2027 —
- Full Spectrum Structural Color — FY2027 —
- Long-lived, Low C-SWaP, RF Spectrum Sensing and Geolocation (LL-RFSS) — FY2027 —
- Ultrawide Bandgap RF Center — FY2027 —
- Semiconductor Consortium — FY2027 —
- Interfacial Chemo-Mechanics — FY2027 —
- Curving THz Wireless Data Links Around Obstacles — FY2027 —
- Intelligent Sensing Nodes — FY2027 —
- Shared World Models for Enhanced Formation Dominance — FY2027 —
- Foundational Quantum Sensing — FY2027 —

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Army RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0601275A project A62 (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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