# Control and Propagation of Electromagnetic Radiation

**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/a16  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601275A/A62

> **NEW START.** $14.1M requested in FY2027 with no prior-year and no current-year funding.

## Summary

This activity requests $14.1M in FY2027, 40% 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.** 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 voltage of silicon carbide power switches; explore phase shifter technologies, informed by cost, size, weight, and power (cSWAP) drivers; assess filter technologies for optimal bandwidth and insertion-loss tradeoff. Cyber Electromagnetic Convergence: Will investigate theoretical models to explore cooperative device function; explore the impact of varying timescales on system function; analyze novel methodologies for device protection. Persistent Attritable Electronic Warfare (PAEW): Will gain understanding of the minimum number of unwanted spurious modes possible in chip-scale acoustic and Yttrium Iron Garnet (YIG) resonators; examine and quantify the acoustic and electrical modulation speed of dielectric breakdown in sub-micron features; study different interface materials to mitigate instability due undesirable dielectric charging in Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) varactors.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** FY 2027 funding increase reflects the consolidation of other ongoing efforts within this project from Adaptive Wavefront Control, Cyber Electromagnetic Convergence, Full Spectrum Structural Color, and Long-lived, low C-SWaP, RF Spectrum Sensing and Geolocation (LL-RFSS) to support the creation of Control and Propagation of Electromagnetic Radiation. Funding increase supports additional research in the areas of Persistent Attritable Electronic Warfare and Attritable RF EW High Power.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2027 | Request | 14.1 |

> 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

- [Advanced Sensing, Measurement, and Timing](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601275A/A62/a14) — FY2027 14.7
- 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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