# Project ACS-01 — ALL DOMAIN TACTICAL TECHNOLOGIES

**Program element:** 0602023E — Access AND Awareness  
**Project:** ACS-01  
**Component:** Defense-Wide  
**Appropriation:** 0400 — RDT&E, Defense-Wide  
**Budget Activity:** 2 — Applied Research  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602023E/ACS-01  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602023E

## Summary

Project ACS-01 — ALL DOMAIN TACTICAL TECHNOLOGIES requests $101.9M in FY2027, 93% of the $110.1M requested for program element 0602023E, up 10.0% on FY2026. 8 R-2A activities decompose the request.

## Funding profile

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 92.6 |
| FY2027 | Request | 101.9 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 176.3 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 208.1 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 218.2 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 222.2 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0602023E; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## What project ACS-01 buys

The All Domain Tactical Technologies project examines and evaluates emerging technologies and system concepts for developing technologies for enhancing U.S. military effectiveness and survivability in operations across all domains. Enabling and novel technologies include concepts for expanding the envelope of operational naval capabilities to include the entire sea column such as improved situational awareness over large maritime environments, ship self-defense techniques, novel underwater propulsion modalities, high speed underwater vessels, improved techniques for underwater object detection and discrimination, long endurance unmanned surface vehicles, methods and techniques for servicing assets throughout the sea column, and high bandwidth communications. This project will also examine methods and architectures for distributing maritime operations to enable a more agile, survivable, and cost-effective fleet. Technologies will be studied for enhancing U.S. military effectiveness and survivability in ground operations ranging from traditional threats to military operations against irregular forces that can employ disruptive or catastrophic capabilities, or disrupt stabilization operations, including competing in underground spaces. Programs in this project will break the relative symmetry of land combat to strengthen and maintain U.S. forces' decisive advantages in the current and future ground battlefield. Aeronautics and space technology efforts studied will address high payoff opportunities that dramatically reduce costs associated with advanced aeronautical and space systems and/or provide revolutionary new system capabilities for satisfying current and projected military mission requirements. This includes advanced technology studies of revolutionary propulsion, vehicle, and launch concepts, sophisticated fabrication methods, and examination of novel materials and enabling technologies for aeronautics and space system applications. Studies that also fundamentally change the calculus of battle including consideration of a mix of assets, platforms that are potentially disposable or with limited lifespans, and autonomous integration of space and air platforms in the tactical battlespace are included. Prior to FY 2026, efforts in this Project were funded in PE 0602702E, Projects TT-03, TT-04, and TT-07.

## Activities (R-2A) — 8

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Domain Tactical Technologies Studies and Concepts | — | 8.8 | 33.5 | +282% | [a4](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602023E/ACS-01/a4) |
| Cyber Physical systems Executing in Real time (CyPhER) Forge | — | 13.8 | 30.4 | +120% | [a0](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602023E/ACS-01/a0) |
| Lunar Assay via Small Satellite Orbiter (LASSO) | — | 19.6 | 19.9 | +1% | [a1](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602023E/ACS-01/a1) |
| Albatross | — | 22.2 | 11.1 | −50% | [a2](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602023E/ACS-01/a2) |
| Next Generation Electronic Surveillance Technology (NGEST) | — | 7.4 | 6.9 | −6% | — |
| Oversight | — | 12.3 | — | −100% | — |
| Expeditionary Carbon Utilization for energy Resilience and Stabilization (ExCURSion) | — | 2.8 | — | −100% | — |
| Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency (RACER) | — | 5.7 | — | −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.

### All Domain Tactical Technologies Studies and Concepts

- Explore research of novel tactical designs and build low-cost platforms that can be rapidly produced at scale and employ distributed effects on the battlefield, optimized for the environment of choice. - Investigate new propulsion technologies that offer improved thermal and thrust characteristics that will open new avenues of tactical…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602023E/ACS-01/a4

### Cyber Physical systems Executing in Real time (CyPhER) Forge

- Conduct iterative risk reduction through challenge cycles supporting prototype digital twin design validation. - Evaluate prototype AI test agents using a faster than real time evaluation environment and real-world test data from an active experimental flight test program. - Initiate design development of complete CyPhER prototype…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602023E/ACS-01/a0

### Lunar Assay via Small Satellite Orbiter (LASSO)

- Build software- in-the-loop simulations (SWIL) to verify mission planning and subsystem performance. - Conduct closed-loop SWIL testing with applied vehicle and payload concept constraints. - Verify that sufficient control authority is maintained by autonomous navigation and enhanced efficiency propulsion systems. - Verify spacecraft…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602023E/ACS-01/a1

### Albatross

- Demonstrate the combination of land and ocean soaring techniques in a mission relevant environment. - Improve soaring prediction capabilities and algorithms to ensure operational relevance and enable extended range and endurance in operational applications. - Integrate capabilities and technologies to enable new broad, long-term, and…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602023E/ACS-01/a2

### Next Generation Electronic Surveillance Technology (NGEST)

**FY2027 planned work.** - Conduct additional field and laboratory testing in complex signal environments. - Upgrade system prototype based on lessons learned from field and laboratory testing. - Finalize system design and open architecture interfaces.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** The FY 2027 decrease reflects a shift from system integration to final testing.

**FY2026 plans — current year.** - Integrate hardware components of prototype RF surveillance system. - Integrate orchestration algorithms into prototype RF surveillance system and test in a laboratory environment. - Field test initial prototype system in a complex signal environment.

### Oversight

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** The FY 2027 decrease reflects program completion.

**FY2026 plans — current year.** - Complete objective capabilities. - Conduct further live demonstrations. - Transition applicable technologies to stakeholders.

### Expeditionary Carbon Utilization for energy Resilience and Stabilization (ExCURSion)

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** The FY 2027 decrease reflects program completion.

**FY2026 plans — current year.** - Complete development of carbon dioxide sorption systems that can withstand typical impurities found in post-combustion streams under a variety of burn conditions. - Integrate carbon dioxide reduction catalysts with reactor platforms to produce a carbon electrolysis system with a high fuel production rate in a compact form factor. - Complete a benchtop reversible carbon fuel cell as a first step towards a future fully rechargeable carbon-based battery system.

### Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency (RACER)

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** The FY 2027 decrease reflects program completion.

**FY2026 plans — current year.** - Integrate combat relevant payloads onto both the large-scale and small-scale platforms to experiment with US Army units. - Complete exploration of new sensing methods and perception models to determine the implications on speed for off-road autonomy.

## 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/0602023E.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0602023E project ACS-01 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0602023E")`.

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