# Advanced Beam Control Component Developments for C-CM

**R-2A activity** of project DE3 — Adv Beam Control Component Development for C-CM  
**Program element:** 0602150A — Air and Missile Defense Technology  
**Component:** U.S. Army · **Budget Activity:** 2  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602150A/DE3/a0  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602150A/DE3

## Summary

This activity requests $11.1M in FY2027, 100% of project DE3, up 101% on FY2026. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2025–FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2027 planned work.** Continue to enhance strategic capabilities, commence with the design and development of advanced beam control technologies and algorithms. This effort will prioritize the development of critical component-level concepts to facilitate integration into larger aperture systems. Simultaneously, establish a stabilized pointing environment essential for enabling long-range, directed energy engagements. Further refine advanced adaptive optics algorithms, tailoring them for optimal performance in high-altitude operational environments. Expand the performance envelope of the Automated Aimpoint Selection Tracker to ensure precision and lethality.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Funding increase is due to the expansion of the development of technologies for directed energy missions to include additional pacing threats with increased hardness at longer ranges to include Cruise Missiles and other ballistic effectors. Funding increase supports extending the range of Directed Energy Weapons to reach threats at greater ranges with precision.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** Continue development of beam control technologies and algorithms to increase the effective range of a directed energy weapon system. Mature component-level concepts to support readiness for transition. Develop a stabilized pointing environment for a large-aperture high energy laser beam expander. Conduct advanced adaptive optics algorithm development in a laboratory environment, with a TRL 4 demonstration planned for FY26. Continue optimization of laser-quality tracking algorithms.

**FY2025 accomplishments.** Continued research and development of beam control technologies that will enable a high energy laser weapon system to extend the effective range. Continued development of 50-cm class high energy laser beam expander with Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 4 laboratory validation. Continued development of advanced adaptive optics systems in a laboratory environment with a TRL 4 demonstration. Continued development of laser quality tracking improvements.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 5.2 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 5.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 11.1 |

> 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 Army RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0602150A project DE3 (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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