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RDT&E Program Element · President's Budget PB2027

Defense Technology Innovation (Beyond 5G)

PE 0602230D8Z·Defense-Wide·Approp. 0400 — RDT&E·BA2 — Applied Research
FY2027 Request
$43.4M
Defense-Wide · RDT&E
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Defense-Wide requests $43.4M in FY2027, sustained across the five-year plan. In the FY2027 defense authorization, the House funded it in full; the Senate funded it in full; House appropriators added 92% (to $83.4M).

FY2027 Request
$43.4M
▲ 8.4% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$40.1M
▲ 45% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$27.6M
Prior year

For fiscal year 2027, Defense-Wide agencies are requesting $43.4M for Defense Technology Innovation (Beyond 5G) under RDT&E program element 0602230D8Z, up 8.4% over 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.

25027.6FY25ACTUAL40.1FY26ENACTED43.4FY27REQUEST43.4FY2846.4FY2946.6FY3048.2FY31
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual27.6
FY2026Enacted40.1
FY2027Request43.4
FY2028Outyear43.4
FY2029Outyear46.4
FY2030Outyear46.6
FY2031Outyear48.2
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

1 project rolls up into PE 0602230D8Z

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 8% overall, which can hide much larger swings below.

Project 230

Defense Technology Innovation (Beyond 5G)

$43.4MFY2027 request ▲ 8%
FY2025 actual$27.6M
FY2026 enacted$40.1M
FY2027 request$43.4M

The Defense Technology Innovation (Beyond 5G) effort builds upon the technology foundation that underpins future generation wireless network systems as a basis to create dual-use wireless cellular network infrastructure and security technologies in support of military applications. Working in concert with other U.S. Government science and technology agencies, Beyond 5G is successfully conducting applied research to adopt, adapt, advance, and integrate technologies to create asymmetric advantages. Our approach is to replace cost-prohibitive, single-function stovepipes that limit the force from fully executing the Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control (CJADC2) concepts of tomorrow. This approach is integrated within the ROCS LOE where open source and Open RAN systems and software are made commercially viable, then leveraged by the other Beyond 5G LOEs as a delivery platform for innovative capabilities.

Accomplishments / planned programs (R-2A) — prior, current and budget year only
Beyond 5G▲ 8%
FY2025 actual$27.6M
FY2026 enacted$40.1M
FY2027 request$43.4M

Beyond 5G projects for FY 2027 span all Lines of Effort (LOE) for FutureG. Within the Expeditionary and Tactical LOE, projects focus on the maturation of distributed tactical wireless communications and AI-native RAN, including research for AI-defined waveforms in tactical environments. The Ubiquitous, Secure, and Instant Access LOE…

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Congressional action

Congressional marks

Committee marks on the FY2027 request. Adds and cuts are reconciled in conference before they become law.

RequestPresident's Budget
$43.4M
House NDAA (HASC)HASC
$43.4M full · +$0
Senate NDAA (SASC)SASC
$43.4M full · +$0
House Approps (HAC-D)HAC_D
$83.4M +$40.0M · +92%
▲ $40.0M chamber gap — 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 program supports the Department's priorities to rebuild our military by matching capabilities to threats, and to reestablish deterrence by defending the Homeland. Today’s mobile and tactical communications are stove-piped and limit the force from fully executing Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control (CJADC2) concepts of tomorrow. Warfighters require integrated network mission solutions utilizing 6G wireless technologies to support the future battle. Beyond 5G delivers unified solutions in mobile and tactical networks to give U.S. Department of War (DoW) an asymmetric advantage.

Project 230 — Defense Technology Innovation (Beyond 5G)
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FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification · Exhibits R-2 / R-3 · PE 0602230D8Z (President's Budget PB2027) — and FY2027 NDAA committee marks, as tracked 2026-07-27.
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