What project 626095 buys
This project develops foundational and applied technologies required for closed-loop autonomous sensing employing multiple information domains, diverse sensor phenomena, and multiple platform types to provide intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, target recognition, situational awareness and battlespace visualization, fire control, and battle damage assessment capabilities against a wide variety of air and ground based targets engaged in multitudes of behaviors in a broad range of operational environments. This project conducts exploratory and applied investigations to determine technology feasibility and estimate operational capability constraints associated with missions in future contested and highly contested operating environments, using cooperative and non-cooperative sensing sources. This project develops techniques to automate multi-sensor exploitation and information processing which leverage data fusion, adaptive signal processing, sensor and platform orchestration, and by leveraging artificial intelligence / machine learning research communities. This project develops concepts and algorithms for efficient processing at the edge, parallel processing, distributed processing, and high-performance computing in sensor data processing and synthetic data generation.
Project 626095 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 | 17.1 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 40.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 34.6 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 38.2 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 42.5 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 43.5 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 44.4 |
4 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 a system-of-systems construct utilizing the latest in DevSecOps, Government Reference Architectures, and Open Mission Standards to generate capability at the tactical edge, focusing on integrating an algorithm pipeline and reducing the time to transition from applied research to advanced demonstrations. - Continue to generate…
Read the FY2027 plan →- Continue applying research to autonomy techniques for mission resource management, command & control, sense making, resource planning, and mission orchestration. - Continue applied research in direct support of systems of systems programs. - Continue to accomplish performance understanding through simulation, demonstration, and blended…
Read the FY2027 plan →FY2027 planned work Not Applicable
FY2026 to FY2027 change Not Applicable
FY2026 plans — current year In FY 2026 the funding and technical activities from this effort were realigned to Program 0602204F, Aerospace Sensors; Project 626095, Sensor Fusion Technology; Multi-Domain Sense Making ($2.560 million) and Sensing Autonomy efforts ($1.261 million).
FY2027 planned work Not Applicable
FY2026 to FY2027 change Not Applicable
FY2026 plans — current year In FY 2026 the funding and technical activities from this effort were realigned to Program 0602204F, Aerospace Sensors; Project 626095, Sensor Fusion Technology; Multi-Domain Sense Making Effort and Sensing Autonomy Effort.