What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project AN9 of PE 0602146A. 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.
Will design and develop emerging signal processing software components to feed signal collection architecture; leverage diverse training data for emerging high priority peer/near-peer adversary military signals; develop machine language models for generating signal detectors for unknown signals of interest; investigate novel RF hardware components for detection, identification, and localization of signals of interest; investigate sensor performance models capable of predicting sensor performance in realistic environments; conduct laboratory experiment to mature signal localization; investigate and develop radar Automated Target Recognition (ATR) concepts, intelligent moving target radar modes, and the processing to enable generalizable ATR that provides high confidence moving target identification through techniques such as focusing and identifying movers from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR).
This is not a new start effort. FY 2027 funding increase reflects the consolidation of other ongoing efforts within this project from Army SIGINT Modernization, Army SIGINT Modernization (ASM)-SIGINT Modernization AI/ML RF Detection and Analysis Tech and AI/ML Based ATR (ABA) for Array Geometries to continue the advancement of technologies. Funding increase reflects additional restructure from Program Element (PE) 0602146A (Network C3I Technology) / Project AQ7 (High Tempo Data Driven Decision Tools Technology).
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) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2027 | Request | 10.7 |
This activity is 36% of project AN9's FY2027 request and 20% of PE 0602146A'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.
10 activities in project AN9
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.