What project 624920 buys
This project develops and assesses affordable, reliable, electronic warfare concepts for aerospace applications covering the range of radio frequency sensors including communications, navigation, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, electro-optical, and radar, both active and passive, across the air, land, sea, space and cyber domains. It develops and evaluates technology for electronic warfare; integrated intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance; electronic warfare systems; and electro-optical/infrared seeker defeat. This project develops the multi-spectral warning and countermeasure technology for advanced electronic warfare and information operations applications. The project also explores technologies to maintain a military advantage in positioning, navigation and timing integrity, accuracy, and resiliency as well as on aircraft mission assurance - the protection of airborne platforms, manned and unmanned, in contested environments. The ultimate goal of the project is to ensure unrestricted access to the airspace and the electromagnetic spectrum in contested and congested environments.
Project 624920 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.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 38.9 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 38.8 |
| FY2027 | Request | 35.9 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 42.1 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 45.7 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 47.3 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 48.3 |
3 accomplishments / planned programs
The R-2A exhibit — the only level of the budget that describes work that has not happened yet. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only, no five-year plan. 2 of them describe FY2027 work in enough detail to have their own page; the rest are shown here in full. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
- Continue to enhance modeling, simulation, and assessment capabilities to analyze, develop, and refine cognitive concepts to defeat threat kill webs. - Continue to enhance and upgrade hardware in the loop assessment capabilities to provide relevant complex electromagnetic spectrum back ground environments to ensure successful operation…
Read the FY2027 plan →- Continue development and maturation of positioning, navigation, and timing over satcom prototypes, focusing on enabling dissemination of precise timing and exploration into positioning dissemination, for transition and integration into critical platforms. - Continue research of software defined antenna electronics to complement…
Read the FY2027 plan →FY2027 planned work - Continue expansion of digital engineering elements with new electro-optical and infrared models and information to enhance multi-spectrum threat assessment and develop advanced threat kill web defeat concepts; perform verification and validation activities on digital twin models collecting data in static flight tests, laboratory measurements, and peer assessments. - Continue threat warning concept development investigation; refine advanced detection concepts against these threats through modeling and simulation; coordinate with other modalities to ensure a synchronized, effective response against adversary long-range threats; validate threat warning concept and missile signature modeling…
FY2026 to FY2027 change FY 2027 decreased compared to FY 2026 by $0.929 million due to a reduction in the development of optical characterization and electronic exploitation of foreign sensors and assets. This reduction is the result of a strategic realignment of the Department of the Air Force's Science and Technology (DAF S&T) portfolio, which aims to optimize core research areas and improve resource efficiency.
FY2026 plans — current year - Continue protection of aircraft and aircrew against advanced electro-optical/infrared guided threats by developing new or improved threat detection and countermeasure techniques. Analyze and assess techniques against hardware in the loop capabilities to ensure capabilities work across an increasingly wide range of operating conditions. - Continue investigation of long-range missile warning; develop surrogate models to refine advanced concepts against these threats; coordinate with other modalities to provide a synchronized, effective response against adversary long-range threats. Validate threat warning results and missile signature modeling using data collected in live-fire tests…