# Force Protection

**R-2A activity** of project 1510 — Expeditionary Campaign  
**Program element:** 0602123N — Force Protection Applied Res  
**Component:** U.S. Navy · **Budget Activity:** 2  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602123N/1510/a0  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602123N/1510

> **NEW START.** $10.7M requested in FY2027 with no prior-year and no current-year funding.

## Summary

This activity requests $10.7M in FY2027, 100% of project 1510 — 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.** 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.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** 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.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 10.7 |

> 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.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Navy RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0602123N project 1510 (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`.

*HitchAI is an independent intelligence service, not affiliated with the U.S. Department of Defense. Budget figures are requests/estimates, not obligations.*