What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 1510 of PE 0602123N. This is the budget justification's own description of work that has not happened yet — the one thing no other level of the budget carries.
Explosive Hazard Defeat in Expeditionary Warfare: Continue: - Design and development of modular compact sensors and automated algorithms to rapidly assess, analyze, and report damage to infrastructure for repair following an attack or natural disaster particularly damage to runways, roads, piers, utilities, and buildings. - Research to design, development and prototyping scalable precision neutralization systems for threat explosive hazards, mines, and kill chain components with lethal or non-lethal force from standoff distances to enable in-stride littoral movement and maneuver, designated ground corridors, at forward aviation points, littoral transition points, and in designated areas of interest. - Develop lightweight expendable munitions deployed from unmanned aerial systems to spot neutralize explosive hazards. Includes autonomous hazard identification, continually tracks, and maneuvers a warhead to the target to be neutralized. - Applied research of a fluorescence based scanning sensor to detect explosive hazards under turbid water condition. - Research to enhance the sensing of a small unmanned system capable of operating underwater and in the air to support finding and reacquiring explosive targets in expeditionary environments. This uses artificial intelligence techniques and pushes near-real time data into the common operating picture. - Demonstrate a compact, solid-state, fully integrated polarimetric light detection and ranging sensor for a small unmanned aerial system with quad-polarization, demultiplexing metasurfaces, and mutipixel time of flight single photon-counting array. - Research design and development of electronics for sensors and communications for multi-domain small unmanned aerial system that can reach underwater locations rapidly and provide bathymetry, detection, interrogation, neutralization and communications capabilities for the defeat of explosive hazards and other landing obstacles from the very shallow waterzone to the inland objective. Complete: - Development of compact detection flow cells for explosives. - Research to forward the timely information coming from new expeditionary antisubmarine warfare sensors with in-situ processing in the noisy littorals into the undersea warfare common operational picture. - Research into optimized communications in the littoral environment using operational forecast models and coastal/ terrestrial radio frequency propagation characteristics validated through field tests.
Funding increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to a realignment of funds from the same PE 0602123N under the Surface Ship and Submarine Hull Mechanical and Electrical (HM&E) planned programs of Project 0000 Force Protection Applied Research.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 10.7 |
This activity is 100% of project 1510's FY2027 request and 7.8% of PE 0602123N's. In the request year the activities under a project sum to it exactly; in the current year they under-cover it in about 9% of cases, so an activity's delta can legitimately exceed its parent's and the two must not be compared row to row.
1 activity in project 1510
Every R-2A line of this project, largest FY2027 request first. Linked where the activity has enough of its own narrative to carry a page; the rest are shown in full on the project page.