Project CK9
$2.4MFY2027 request ▼ 20%Advancing Concepts and Technology Forecasting Tech
FY2025 actual$2.6M
FY2026 enacted$3.0M
FY2027 request$2.4M
FY2027 Request
$2.4M
▼ 91% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$27.6M
▲ 102% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$13.7M
Prior year
Roll-up of 7 projects. Projects are the summable leaves — the PE total is their sum, never added to it.
For fiscal year 2027, the U.S. Army is requesting $2.4M for Soldier Applied Research under RDT&E program element 0602184A, down 91% from FY2026.
Funding trajectory
Funding profile, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 13.7 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 27.6 |
| FY2027 | Request | 2.4 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 2.5 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 2.5 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 2.6 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 2.6 |
Where it sits
Acquisition lifecycle
This program is funded in RDT&E Budget Activity 2 — Applied Research.
Current
Research
BA 1–2
Later
Advanced Technology
BA 3
Later
Prototyping
BA 4
Later
Development & Fielding
BA 5–7
Inside the program element
7 projects roll up into PE 0602184A
Projects are the summable leaves — the PE total is their sum, never added to it. Program elements and projects carry the full five-year plan; activities stop at the budget year. This PE moves -91% overall, which can hide much larger swings below.
Project DN2
—FY2027 request ▼ 100%Joint Service Small Arms Enabling Tech
FY2025 actual—
FY2026 enacted$7.7M
FY2027 request—
Project CW9
—FY2027 request ▼ 100%Syn Bio for Reactive-Resp Matls-Soldiers & Sys
FY2025 actual$3.6M
FY2026 enacted$6.0M
FY2027 request—
Project CN2
—FY2027 request ▼ 100%Intelligent Weapons Concepts and Technologies
FY2025 actual$4.4M
FY2026 enacted$4.5M
FY2027 request—
Project CV9
—FY2027 request ▼ 100%Technical-SAVVY Soldier Applied Research
FY2025 actual$3.1M
FY2026 enacted$3.7M
FY2027 request—
Project DO1
—FY2027 request ▼ 100%Modernized Composites & Manufacturing
FY2025 actual—
FY2026 enacted$2.0M
FY2027 request—
Project DN1
—FY2027 request ▼ 100%Directed Energy Biological Effects
FY2025 actual—
FY2026 enacted$0.7M
FY2027 request—
Congressional action
Congressional marks
Committee marks on the FY2027 request. Adds and cuts are reconciled in conference before they become law.
RequestPresident's Budget
$2.4M
House NDAA (HASC)HASC
$2.4M full · +$0
Senate NDAA (SASC)SASC
$2.4M full · +$0
House Approps (HAC-D)HAC_D
$2.4M full · +$0
unresolved as of 2026-07-27. These are FY2027 authorization marks (NDAA); appropriations and the conference agreement may differ.
Program detail
Mission & acquisition strategy
This PE investigates, designs, and performs research focused on technologies necessary for capability enhancements for the Soldier and Squad over the long-term well beyond those technologies planned within the Soldier Lethality Cross- Functional Team. Applied research projects investigate nascent and enduring science and technology areas that are applicable to the individual Soldier and Squads of Soldiers needs with emphasis on maximizing Soldier and Squad performance, lethality, mobility and survivability. This PE also designs and validates technologies that are necessary and foundational for future capabilities with far-reaching impact on mission success.
Project CK9, DN2, CW9, CN2, CV9, DO1, DN1 — Advancing Concepts and Technology Forecasting Tech
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FY2027 Department of the Army RDT&E Budget Justification · Exhibits R-2 / R-3 · PE 0602184A (President's Budget PB2027) — and FY2027 NDAA committee marks, as tracked 2026-07-27.
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/programs/0602184A.md · MCP mcp.hitchintel.com → budget_get_program_element, budget_get_cong_marksFY2027 Request
$2.4M
▼ 20% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$3.0M
▲ 17% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$2.6M
Prior year
Advancing Concepts and Technology Forecasting Tech — one RDT&E project inside PE 0602184A. Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, not on a project.
Project CK9 — Advancing Concepts and Technology Forecasting Tech — requests $2.4M in FY2027, 100% of the $2.4M requested for program element 0602184A. Year over year it falls 20% against FY2026.
Funding trajectory
Project CK9 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 2.6 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 3.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 2.4 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 2.5 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 2.5 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 2.6 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 2.6 |
Inside the project
2 accomplishments / planned programs
The R-2A exhibit. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan — and they are descriptive: coverage is partial and they do not always add back to the project, so count them, never total them.
Advancing Concepts and Technology Forecasting▲ 2%
FY2025 actual$2.6M
FY2026 enacted$2.4M
FY2027 request$2.4M
FY2027 planned work Will identify and facilitate integration of Army applied research and outcomes with FCC processes and efforts that expand and build upon the Army Warfighting Concept; lead and support learning events that bring together multiple communities to shape Army applied research and inform the development of future concept documents and FCC concept-driven transformation efforts; support integration of milestones for applied materiel research in FCC's Doctrine, Organization, Training, Materiel, Leadership and Education, Personnel, Facilities, and Policy (DOTMLPF-P) roadmap effort focused on understanding capabilities, formation, and experiments to design the Army of 2040.
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding increase due to economic adjustment.
FY2026 plans — current year Will identify and support the integration of research outcomes to facilitate scientific advancement informed by the Army Warfighting Concept; explore and lead learning events that span multiple communities to identify opportunities to shape Army applied research and progress concepts toward future capabilities; provide objective estimates of anticipated applied research advances in emerging scientific areas with high relevance to the Army, including human performance enhancement, quantum, and cybersecurity.
FY2025 accomplishments Will integrate mid- and far-term Army Concept priorities, including offensive and defense fires and platform survivability, to guide applied scientific research program development; participate in warfighting assessments to inform Army operability within continental environments of varying density and terrain.
Experimentation and Soldier Engagement▼ 100%
FY2025 actual—
FY2026 enacted$0.6M
FY2027 request—
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding decrease reflects realignment to Program Element (PE) 0603025A (Army Agile Innovation and Demonstration) / Project DA3 (Army Advanced Innovation) to align experimentation and innovation activities in one project.
FY2026 plans — current year Will develop strategies and Experimentation and Soldier Engagement Strategy; coordinate participation in current year experimentation activities to explore integration of scientific advancement to address current operational user needs.
Project detail
What project CK9 buys
This project works across the Army Futures Command Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM), with the Futures & Concepts Center (FCC), and the Directorate of Intelligence and Security to explore current and future emerging and disruptive applied scientific research to translate, integrate, and ingrain applied research outcomes with the Army. Warfighting Concepts to describe how the Army will fight in the mid and far-term future while the Future Operational Environment contextualizes projected applied research outcomes in the deep future. Applied research outcomes describe the projected future operational effects of science in the context of Army concepts and probable operational capabilities to mitigate risk for future Army capabilities and enable informed decision making across the Army Modernization Enterprise. This project ensures Army Concepts and experimentation are grounded by recent and anticipated advances in applied scientific research, Army applied research is capability use-inspired to deliver the right future capability identified in the Army Concepts, and learning opportunities are created to advance Army Concepts and operationalize science for transformational overmatch. This project also performs long-range technology forecasts and trend analysis, informed by the threat and the predicted future state of technology, of Army-relevant applied research topics to enable informed decision making for the near-, mid-, and far-terms. Research in this project is performed by the Army Research Laboratory (ARL).
FY2027 Request
$0.0M
▼ 100% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$7.7M
In law
Joint Service Small Arms Enabling Tech — one RDT&E project inside PE 0602184A. Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, not on a project.
Project DN2 — Joint Service Small Arms Enabling Tech — requests — in FY2027, 0.0% of the $2.4M requested for program element 0602184A. Year over year it falls 100% against FY2026.
Funding trajectory
Project DN2 funding, FY2026–FY2026
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
Enacted
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | Enacted | 7.7 |
Inside the project
1 accomplishment / planned program
The R-2A exhibit. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan — and they are descriptive: coverage is partial and they do not always add back to the project, so count them, never total them.
Joint Small Arms Research (JSAR)▼ 100%
FY2025 actual—
FY2026 enacted$7.7M
FY2027 request—
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding decrease reflects transfer to Program Element (PE) 0603118A (Soldier Lethality Technology) / Project AY6 (Soldier Squad Small Arms Armaments Technology) to streamline and optimize the Science and Technology (S&T) portfolio.
FY2026 plans — current year Will design concepts to study small arms characterization techniques and metrics; design and develop machine gun component technology for increased volume fire effectiveness; investigate algorithms and models used for advanced ballistics and holistic weapon signature system analysis; investigate fire control components and methodologies to improve future small arms system performance and emission reduction; investigate weapon operation for increased lethality.
Project detail
What project DN2 buys
This Project investigates individual and crew-served armament component design (weapon, munition, and fire control) and technologies that enable increased lethality and survivability of the dismounted Warfighter across all the Joint Services. This Project investigates and designs engineering solutions to reduce the blast overpressure field for the M3 Carl Gustaf. Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0603044A (Soldier Advanced Technology) / Project DN4 (Joint Service Small Arms Adv Tech). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Work in this Project is completed by the Armaments Center (AC).
FY2027 Request
$0.0M
▼ 100% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$6.0M
▲ 67% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$3.6M
Prior year
Syn Bio for Reactive-Resp Matls-Soldiers & Sys — one RDT&E project inside PE 0602184A. Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, not on a project.
Project CW9 — Syn Bio for Reactive-Resp Matls-Soldiers & Sys — requests — in FY2027, 0.0% of the $2.4M requested for program element 0602184A. Year over year it falls 100% against FY2026.
Funding trajectory
Project CW9 funding, FY2025–FY2026
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
Actual Enacted
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 3.6 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 6.0 |
Inside the project
2 accomplishments / planned programs
The R-2A exhibit. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan — and they are descriptive: coverage is partial and they do not always add back to the project, so count them, never total them.
Biological Bio-Composite Materials and Processes▼ 100%
FY2025 actual$3.6M
FY2026 enacted$2.3M
FY2027 request—
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding decrease reflects realignment to Program Element (PE) 0602386A (Soldier Lethality Technology) / Project CP6 (Foundational Biotechnology Design and Dev) to support the consolidation of biology and biotechnology work into one project.
FY2026 plans — current year Will use synthetic biology to design and develop protective materials and additives across the electro-optical/electromagnetic (EO/EM) spectrum; investigate biomaterials as precursors and components towards energetics; mature biomaterial post-processing and their integration into advanced composites, coatings, and systems.
FY2025 accomplishments Will use synthetic biology to develop sense-and-respond cascades, and investigate addressable and potentially specific interactions for composite assembly relevant to electro-optical/electromagnetic (EO/EM) materials; tie aforementioned capabilities back to traditional material science structure-property relationships; mature novel biomaterials for advanced composites and protective coatings; mature understanding of how biological interfaces can be leveraged for military platforms (i.e., coatings, textiles, and metals), and use synthetic biology to tune signal output for advanced sensing, reporting, and protection; develop novel synthetic biology enabled bio-capabilities for material…
Bio-Reactive Surfaces and Adaptive Protection Technology▼ 100%
FY2025 actual—
FY2026 enacted$3.7M
FY2027 request—
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding decrease reflects realignment to Program Element (PE) 0602386A (Soldier Lethality Technology) / Project CP6 (Foundational Biotechnology Design and Dev) to support the consolidation of biology and biotechnology work into one project.
FY2026 plans — current year Will investigate synthetic biology to engineer organisms from military environments for multi-stimuli input sensing and situational awareness to support Soldier maneuver and protection; design and develop a multimodal self-sustained biological sensor (e.g. chemical, light, radiation, mechanical) with an initial focus on persistence in a military relevant environment; investigate temporal and spatial reporting in the context of different environmental parameters; use synthetic biology, molecular biology, and predictive modeling to design and develop novel reporting mechanisms capable of interfacing with Soldier-borne platforms.
Project detail
What project CW9 buys
This project designs and investigates materials through the application of biotechnology and synthetic biology advances to develop material capabilities that respond and/or can adapt to a wide range of external stimuli and biological processes. Research into innovative materials that are capable of sensing, responding, and adapting to a broad spectrum of environmental variables will be conducted. This project will explore new biology-based methods for controlled synthesis and assembly to create multi-functional materials and advanced composites as well as develop materials that are able to self-monitor, self-heal, and self-sustain. This project also focuses on developing models, materials characterization techniques, non-destructive testing methods, and advanced fabrication and processing methodologies as well as the identification of unique material properties. Research in this project is performed by the Army Research Laboratory (ARL).
FY2027 Request
$0.0M
▼ 100% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$4.5M
▲ 1.5% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$4.4M
Prior year
Intelligent Weapons Concepts and Technologies — one RDT&E project inside PE 0602184A. Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, not on a project.
Project CN2 — Intelligent Weapons Concepts and Technologies — requests — in FY2027, 0.0% of the $2.4M requested for program element 0602184A. Year over year it falls 100% against FY2026.
Funding trajectory
Project CN2 funding, FY2025–FY2026
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
Actual Enacted
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 4.4 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 4.5 |
Inside the project
1 accomplishment / planned program
The R-2A exhibit. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan — and they are descriptive: coverage is partial and they do not always add back to the project, so count them, never total them.
Distributed Information for Enhanced Squad Lethality▼ 100%
FY2025 actual$4.4M
FY2026 enacted$4.5M
FY2027 request—
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding decrease reflects Program Element (PE) 0602143A (Soldier Lethality Technology) / Project BD1 (Adv Soldier Sensors/Displays Tech for Dismounts) to support the consolidation of all soldier situational awareness work under one project.
FY2026 plans — current year Will mature algorithms for the fusion of opportunistically sensed data from dismounted Soldier-systems to expand situational awareness capabilities and inform tactical options across heterogenous human-autonomy teams, including mounted assets; conduct experiments applying attentional deployment models to inform autonomous systems for enhanced target detection and prioritization; mature algorithms for predicting squad maneuvers for optimal threat coverage using multi-dimensional Soldier and weapon data; validate experimental approaches for joint adaptation between Soldier and autonomy in small unit threat scenarios using inferred individual and team behaviors.
FY2025 accomplishments Will design and develop algorithms for fusion of opportunistically sensed data, including weapon data and gaze direction, from dismounted Soldier-systems to expand situational awareness capabilities; quantify relationships between heterogenous human-autonomy squad behaviors and cross-platform small-arms target detection and prioritization approaches to inform learning techniques; design and develop algorithms for fusion of opportunistically sensed data for small unit Soldier-systems to inform tactical options; investigate approaches for leveraging contextualized squad state data to expand autonomous learning across formations.
Project detail
What project CN2 buys
This project focuses on far-term, overarching lethality technologies by investigating techniques for Soldiers to guide the in-field adaptation of intelligent small arms technologies to respond to changing mission requirements, novel environments, and adversarial actions. Research areas include cognition-centric displays to ensure Soldiers maintain appropriate situational awareness in augmented reality (AR) environments, opportunistic shooter sensing, and interactive machine learning techniques to ensure small arms technologies can adapt to changing situations quickly and with reduced data requirements as compared to non-human guided machine learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI). The results of this project will enhance operational performance of individuals and teams of Soldiers in the future operational environment through novel weapon and human-agent interaction technologies. Work in this project is performed by the Army Research Laboratory (ARL).
FY2027 Request
$0.0M
▼ 100% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$3.7M
▲ 22% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$3.1M
Prior year
Technical-SAVVY Soldier Applied Research — one RDT&E project inside PE 0602184A. Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, not on a project.
Project CV9 — Technical-SAVVY Soldier Applied Research — requests — in FY2027, 0.0% of the $2.4M requested for program element 0602184A. Year over year it falls 100% against FY2026.
Funding trajectory
Project CV9 funding, FY2025–FY2026
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
Actual Enacted
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 3.1 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 3.7 |
Inside the project
2 accomplishments / planned programs
The R-2A exhibit. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan — and they are descriptive: coverage is partial and they do not always add back to the project, so count them, never total them.
Soldier Technical Enhancement Applied Research - ARL▼ 100%
FY2025 actual$1.8M
FY2026 enacted$2.3M
FY2027 request—
FY2026 to FY2027 change FY 2027 decrease due to transfer to PE 0602785A (Manpower/Personnel/Training Technology) / Project 790 (Personnel Performance & Training Technology) to streamline and optimize the Science and Technology (S&T) portfolio.
FY2026 plans — current year Will investigate training approaches to enhance individual technological fluency (TF); develop approaches to integrate opportunistically sensed measures of TF field data with personnel testing data to enable dynamic assessment of TF across time.
FY2025 accomplishments Will conduct validation experiments on technological fluency (TF) models using human-system interaction test-beds; investigate approaches to opportunistically sense measures of TF that can be extracted from in-field sources without creating additional operational burden.
Soldier Technical Enhancement Applied Research - ARI▼ 100%
FY2025 actual$1.3M
FY2026 enacted$1.4M
FY2027 request—
FY2026 to FY2027 change FY 2027 decrease due to transfer to PE 0602785A (Manpower/Personnel/Training Technology) / Project 790 (Personnel Performance & Training Technology) to streamline and optimize the Science and Technology (S&T) portfolio.
FY2026 plans — current year Will refine a competency model of Technological Fluency (TF) that identifies the critical knowledge, skills, abilities, and characteristics that enable TF; will develop prototype training methods for maximizing TF competencies.
FY2025 accomplishments Will develop and validate a competency model of Technological Fluency (TF) that identifies the critical knowledge, skills, abilities, and characteristics that enable TF; will develop proof-of-concept training methods for maximizing TF competencies; will develop personnel testing requirements and test blueprints to measure identified TF competencies.
Project detail
What project CV9 buys
This project conducts applied research to achieve a technologically fluent force. This research will develop models of technological fluency (TF) (TF Modeling), methods and measures to assess and develop the technological fluency of Soldiers across a career (TF Personnel Assessments), and technologies to maximize technological fluency resilience and performance in Soldiers and units (Maximizing TF). TF is defined as the ability of Soldiers and units to use and rapidly adapt new and intelligent technologies without formal training on these technologies, and it will be a decisive factor in a future operating environment in which Soldiers and squads are teamed with increasingly sophisticated and evolving technologies. Soldiers and leaders in specialty areas (e.g., Cyber and Emerging Tech) and General Purpose Forces will require increased technological aptitudes and skills to adapt emerging technologies to evolving mission sets and avoid being overmatched by Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled "smart" technologies. This project supports key Army needs and will coordinate with and/or leverage findings of several Program Elements (PEs) to include PE 0602785A (Manpower, Personnel and Training Technology), 0602143A (Soldier Lethality Technology), and 0602145A (Next Generation Combat Vehicle Technology). Work in this project is performed by the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) and the U.S. Army Research Institute (ARI) for Behavioral and Social Sciences.
FY2027 Request
$0.0M
▼ 100% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$2.0M
In law
Modernized Composites & Manufacturing — one RDT&E project inside PE 0602184A. Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, not on a project.
Project DO1 — Modernized Composites & Manufacturing — requests — in FY2027, 0.0% of the $2.4M requested for program element 0602184A. Year over year it falls 100% against FY2026.
Funding trajectory
Project DO1 funding, FY2026–FY2026
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
Enacted
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | Enacted | 2.0 |
Inside the project
1 accomplishment / planned program
The R-2A exhibit. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan — and they are descriptive: coverage is partial and they do not always add back to the project, so count them, never total them.
Institute for Advanced Composites Engineering - Applied Research▼ 100%
FY2025 actual—
FY2026 enacted$2.0M
FY2027 request—
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding decrease reflects transfer to Program Element (PE) 0602143A (Soldier Lethality Technology) / Project BC2 (Next Gen Mobility & Lethality Tech for Warfighters) to streamline and optimize the Science and Technology (S&T) portfolio.
FY2026 plans — current year Will competitively award the UARC via cooperative agreement or contract vehicle and establish technical objectives; investigate additive manufacturing research and develop program plan.
Project detail
What project DO1 buys
This project investigates manufacturing sciences and advanced automation through additive, subtractive, and digital manufacturing sciences of novel composite materials for use in both existing and future DoW-wide systems. This project develops novel composite materials to deliver advanced structural materials with improved durability, functionality and performance, to support broad applications across the future operational environment and DoW. Focus will be on properties required for understanding operation in contested environments. The project will use unique contract and collaborative approaches to accelerate transitions into and from university programs. Work in this project complements PE 0603044A (Soldier Advanced Technology) / Project DO2 (Modernized Composites & Manufacturing Adv Dev). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering Advanced Materials Critical Technology Area and the Army Modernization Strategy. Work in this project is performed by DEVCOM Soldier Center.
FY2027 Request
$0.0M
▼ 100% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$0.7M
In law
Directed Energy Biological Effects — one RDT&E project inside PE 0602184A. Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, not on a project.
Project DN1 — Directed Energy Biological Effects — requests — in FY2027, 0.0% of the $2.4M requested for program element 0602184A. Year over year it falls 100% against FY2026.
Funding trajectory
Project DN1 funding, FY2026–FY2026
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
Enacted
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.7 |
Inside the project
1 accomplishment / planned program
The R-2A exhibit. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan — and they are descriptive: coverage is partial and they do not always add back to the project, so count them, never total them.
Directed Energy Bio Effects▼ 100%
FY2025 actual—
FY2026 enacted$0.7M
FY2027 request—
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding decrease reflects realignment to Program Element (PE) 0602787A (Medical Technology) / Project MK4 (Warfigher Health Applied Rsch Technology) to consolidate all biological effects work into one Project.
FY2026 plans — current year Will investigate and validate candidate waveforms for interaction with biological structures.
Project detail
What project DN1 buys
This Project is a multi-disciplinary effort to investigate, determine characterize, mitigate, and validate emerging anti-personnel energy field threats. This Project designs and develops sensors, sources, and instrumentation to understand the molecular to organismal level of energy field impacts that produce neurocognitive and motor deficits. This effort will also investigate vulnerabilities and exploitable biophysical mechanisms which can be used to design, construct, and characterize tunable sources for laboratory use and future transition. Work in this Project complements PE 0601102A (Defense Research Sciences) / Project AA5 (Biotechnology and Systems Biology). The cited research is consistent with Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering Science and Technology priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Work in this Project is performed by Army Research Laboratory (ARL).