# All Domain Tactical Technologies Studies and Concepts

**R-2A activity** of project ACS-01 — ALL DOMAIN TACTICAL TECHNOLOGIES  
**Program element:** 0602023E — Access AND Awareness  
**Component:** Defense-Wide · **Budget Activity:** 2  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602023E/ACS-01/a4  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602023E/ACS-01

## Summary

This activity requests $33.5M in FY2027, 33% of project ACS-01, up 282% on FY2026. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2026–FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2027 planned work.** - 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 maneuver efficiencies. - Explore new munition and launch capabilities that can be strategically placed forward into existing operating locations across domains. - Research reconfigurable, morphing robotic AI smart structures can be easily deployed from existing systems such as artillery launchers, ground vehicles, small surface craft, and other platforms. - Explore advanced system power capabilities that enable long-duration, untethered, all-weather transportation from sea to space. - Collect environmental noise data in austere, contested, or otherwise challenging environments. - Utilize collected environmental noise data to validate assumptions of physics models and phenomenology with novel applications for operational capabilities. - Develop algorithms and software to process collected data.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** The FY 2027 increase reflects studies and concepts initiations including, but not limited to, applied research in new propulsion technologies, reconfigurable/morphing robotic AI smart deployable structures and advanced power systems.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** - Support the issuance of standards recommendation reports for lunar power infrastructure, communications infrastructure, and Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) infrastructure. - Initiate research into a program that will explore the combination of adaptive maneuver warfare with sustained, surging assets for faster-than-human offensive and defensive behaviors to enable a new way of fighting. - Initiate research into the novel application of artificial technology techniques, like foundation models and Graph Neural Networks (GNN), to enable a small number of humans to command and control significant numbers of cross-domain assets and effectors. - Collect data to support passive noise radar approach investigations and applications. - Investigate algorithmic development on radars. - Research environmental noise data.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | Enacted | 8.8 |
| FY2027 | Request | 33.5 |

> 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 ACS-01

- [Cyber Physical systems Executing in Real time (CyPhER) Forge](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602023E/ACS-01/a0) — FY2027 30.4
- [Lunar Assay via Small Satellite Orbiter (LASSO)](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602023E/ACS-01/a1) — FY2027 19.9
- [Albatross](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602023E/ACS-01/a2) — FY2027 11.1
- Next Generation Electronic Surveillance Technology (NGEST) — FY2027 6.9
- Oversight — FY2027 —
- Expeditionary Carbon Utilization for energy Resilience and Stabilization (ExCURSion) — FY2027 —
- Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency (RACER) — FY2027 —

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0602023E project ACS-01 (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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