# Project 626095 — Sensor Fusion Technology

**Program element:** 0602204F — Aerospace Sensors  
**Project:** 626095  
**Component:** U.S. Air Force  
**Appropriation:** 3600 — RDT&E, Air Force  
**Budget Activity:** 2 — Applied Research  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602204F/626095  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602204F

## Summary

Project 626095 — Sensor Fusion Technology requests $34.6M in FY2027, 21% of the $165.0M requested for program element 0602204F, down 15% on FY2026. 4 R-2A activities decompose the request.

## Funding profile

| 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 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0602204F; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## 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.

## Activities (R-2A) — 4

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Applied Multi-Domain Sense Making | 8.6 | 28.4 | 20.0 | −29% | [a0](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602204F/626095/a0) |
| Sensing Autonomy | 4.7 | 12.3 | 14.6 | +18% | [a2](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602204F/626095/a2) |
| Multi-Domain Sensing Effects and Analysis | 1.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | — |
| Cyber Physical Sensing | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | — |

> Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan. In the request year they partition this project exactly; in earlier years they can under-cover it.

### Applied Multi-Domain Sense Making

- 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…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602204F/626095/a0

### Sensing Autonomy

- 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…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602204F/626095/a2

### Multi-Domain Sensing Effects and Analysis

**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).

### Cyber Physical Sensing

**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.

## What is NOT on this page

Congressional marks, the R-2 mission description and acquisition strategy, the industry vs government split of the whole request, and related program elements are recorded at **program-element** grain — an NDAA mark lands on a PE, never on a project. They are at https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602204F.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0602204F project 626095 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0602204F")`.

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