Project 534
$10.0MFY2027 request ▼ 78%Lincoln Laboratory
FY2025 actual$42.2M
FY2026 enacted$45.4M
FY2027 request$10.0M
FY2027 Request
$10.0M
▼ 79% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$46.9M
▲ 2.3% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$45.8M
Prior year
Roll-up of 2 projects. Projects are the summable leaves — the PE total is their sum, never added to it.
For fiscal year 2027, Defense-Wide agencies are requesting $10.0M for Lincoln Laboratory Research Program under RDT&E program element 0602234D8Z, down 79% from FY2026.
Funding trajectory
Funding profile, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 45.8 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 46.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 10.0 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 10.5 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 10.6 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 10.3 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 10.1 |
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
2 projects roll up into PE 0602234D8Z
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 -79% overall, which can hide much larger swings below.
Project 815
$0.0MFY2027 request ▼ 100%Cyber Security, Science and Engineering
FY2025 actual$3.6M
FY2026 enacted$1.5M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Congressional action
Congressional marks
Committee marks on the FY2027 request. Adds and cuts are reconciled in conference before they become law.
RequestPresident's Budget
$10.0M
House NDAA (HASC)HASC
$18.0M +$8.0M · +80%
Senate NDAA (SASC)SASC
$10.0M full · +$0
House Approps (HAC-D)HAC_D
$47.5M +$37.5M · +373%
▲ $37.5M 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 initiative to Build Sustainable and Long-Term Advantage. The MIT Lincoln Laboratory (MIT LL) research program element is focused on advanced technology research and development effort conducted through a cost reimbursable contract with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The MIT LL project supports innovative, multi-disciplined research that addresses critical national security problems. The project funds innovations that directly lead to the development of new system concepts, technologies, components, and materials in support of Department of War (DoW) missions. As of FY 2023, the program element funds nine technology areas.
Project 534, 815 — Lincoln Laboratory
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FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification · Exhibits R-2 / R-3 · PE 0602234D8Z (President's Budget PB2027) — and FY2027 NDAA committee marks, as tracked 2026-07-27.
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/programs/0602234D8Z.md · MCP mcp.hitchintel.com → budget_get_program_element, budget_get_cong_marksFY2027 Request
$10.0M
▼ 78% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$45.4M
▲ 7.5% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$42.2M
Prior year
Lincoln Laboratory — one RDT&E project inside PE 0602234D8Z. Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, not on a project.
Project 534 — Lincoln Laboratory — requests $10.0M in FY2027, 100% of the $10.0M requested for program element 0602234D8Z. Year over year it falls 78% against FY2026.
Funding trajectory
Project 534 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 42.2 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 45.4 |
| FY2027 | Request | 10.0 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 10.5 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 10.6 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 10.3 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 10.1 |
Inside the project
8 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. Opening lines only here — the full year-by-year narrative is on the project page.
Microelectronics▲ 32%
FY2025 actual$5.7M
FY2026 enacted$2.8M
FY2027 request$3.7M
- Demonstrate and benchmark performance for superconducting electronics-based compute and memories technologies - Extend AI-enabled materials development and experimentation to hypersonics and critical materials - Advance large-format quantum-noise limited LWIR detectors for next generation space surveillance and low-light applications…
Sensing and Communications▼ 91%
FY2025 actual$5.2M
FY2026 enacted$1.8M
FY2027 request$0.2M
- Demonstrate integrated photonic systems for low-SWaP adaptive optics and advanced RF receiver applications - Build and demonstrate free-form optical systems for wide-area surveillance applications and initiate technology transfer - Demonstrate compact high peak-power superconducting electromagnetic pulse (EMP) generation - Advance…
Radio Frequency (RF) Systems and Technologies
FY2025 actual$5.2M
FY2026 enacted—
FY2027 request—
The RF Systems program will continue progress in advanced RF signal processing, indoor RF networking, and novel front end component technologies.
Intelligent Systems▲ 125%
FY2025 actual$7.0M
FY2026 enacted$1.8M
FY2027 request$4.0M
Mature and demonstrate capability in: - Tactical Edge AI enabled by novel algorithms for complex DoW environments - Expanded Autonomy solutions for resiliency in electronic warfare applications - Multimodal foundation models to enhance sensing capabilities in radar, sonar and ISR modalities - Extreme scale collaborative, intelligent…
Autonomous Systems
FY2025 actual$4.5M
FY2026 enacted—
FY2027 request—
Continue progress in artificial intelligence (AI) for robotics, platform technology, multi agent systems, and trusted and resilient autonomy. Continue to develop multi agent autonomous space technology for mission planning and satellite coordination.
Quantum Computing & Interconnects▼ 16%
FY2025 actual$5.6M
FY2026 enacted$1.8M
FY2027 request$1.5M
-Demonstrate quantum interconnect technologies for distributed quantum sensing and computing applications -Investigate better predictive and forecasting tools for utility-scale quantum compute -Develop algorithms for efficient and convergent quantum computing operations
Advanced Materials and Processes
FY2025 actual$4.4M
FY2026 enacted—
FY2027 request—
The Advanced Materials and Process program will continue to conduct research on all forms of data-enhanced, computationally accelerated materials development, alongside a focus on advanced materials technologies that underpin small platforms. Continue focus on the following areas: beyond complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS)…
Integrated Systems▼ 63%
FY2025 actual$4.6M
FY2026 enacted$1.8M
FY2027 request$0.7M
- Demonstrate blue laser remote temperature sensing in airborne experiments with autonomous undersea and surface sensors to further mission moonshot in transparent oceans for INDOPACOM - Advance multi-function directed energy systems for Counter-UAS and Golden Dome applications - Develop and demonstrate novel sensing technologies and…
Project detail
What project 534 buys
This project supports and focuses on high risk, high-payoff research that addresses critical national security problems, leading to innovative new system concepts, technologies, components and materials in support of current and emerging Department of War (DoW) missions. Each year, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lincoln Lab (MIT LL) in coordination with the Office of the Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering (OUSW(R&E)) reviews and selects projects focusing on addressing technology gaps in critical problems facing national security, oriented not toward incremental improvements in current technology but transformative capabilities to provide asymmetric advantage. Factors considered in the selection include mission impact, capability and development acceleration, and ability to provide innovation in the DoW critical technology areas. Selection of projects derives from an annual, highly competitive proposal process in which demand for funding exceeds supply by nearly a factor of three. Successful projects often result in advanced capabilities that lead to further sponsored-program development, operational prototypes, technology insertion into existing programs and/or technology licensing to commercial companies. As of FY 2026 the program element has been adjusted to focus on consolidated, core technologies in Microelectronics; Sensing and Communication; Intelligent Systems; and Quantum Computing and Interconnects. The program element continues to include a system level technology area of Integrated Systems aimed at mission-oriented advanced prototype development. The Lincoln Laboratory (LL) research areas that comprise this overall research and development portfolio are described below. Core-technology areas: • The Microelectronics Line focuses on turning bold, early-stage concepts in materials and processes into component prototypes to enable new system-level solutions to national security problems. Leveraging a wide range of fabrication capabilities, the portfolio aims to create foundational mission-focused technologies spanning applications in imaging; analog, mixed-signal, and digital electronics; and photonics, opto-electronics, and laser technologies. It also seeks to take advantage of unexpected and unusual properties of materials engineered at scales from nanometers to millimeters.
FY2027 Request
$0.0M
▼ 100% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$1.5M
▼ 58% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$3.6M
Prior year
Cyber Security, Science and Engineering — one RDT&E project inside PE 0602234D8Z. Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, not on a project.
Project 815 — Cyber Security, Science and Engineering — requests $0.0M in FY2027, 0.0% of the $10.0M requested for program element 0602234D8Z. Year over year it falls 100% against FY2026.
Funding trajectory
Project 815 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 3.6 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 1.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 0.0 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 0.0 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 0.0 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 0.0 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 0.0 |
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.
Cyber Security, Science and Engineering▼ 100%
FY2025 actual$3.6M
FY2026 enacted$0.9M
FY2027 request—
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding reduction of $0.876 million promotes efficiencies and advances the policies of the Administration in alignment with Executive Order 14222, “Implementing the President’s Department of Government Efficiency Cost Efficiency Initiative.”
FY2026 plans — current year Deliver a fieldable unique emitter identification system to enable fingerprinting any electronic device through its RF signature, enhanced by neural networks/AI cloud computing infrastructure for DoW, USG and partners.
FY2025 accomplishments The Cyber Security, Science and Engineering program will carry on extending cyber applied research along the following strategic areas: cyber physical systems, cyber operations, resilient systems, and system exploitation that will develop far-reaching cyber improvements that will significantly improve our interactions with the cyber world.
Project detail
What project 815 buys
The Cyber Security, Science and Engineering research project focuses on the development of technologies and new techniques for the protection of systems against cyber- attack and exploitation. Efforts include research into technologies for cyber situational awareness, command and control; technology to improve resilience of systems to cyber-attack; and technologies for system exploitation research. The Cyber Security, Science and Engineering research project supports innovative research that addresses critical national security problems in cyber. The project funds innovations that directly lead to the development of new system concepts, technologies, and algorithms in support of DoW missions. Funding supports high-risk, high-payoff research, which provides unique and specialized capabilities for the current and emerging needs of the Department.