What project 0000 buys
Freedom of maneuver on a global scale for U.S. naval forces depends upon assured access to the electromagnetic spectrum and the ability to deny adversary exploitation. Electromagnetic technologies must fluidly deliver communication, surveillance electronic warfare and digital integration to understand, shape and defend the battlespace. This project addresses technology opportunities associated with Naval platforms for new capabilities in Electro-Optic and Infrared (EO/IR) Sensors, Surveillance, Electronic Warfare, Navigation, Solid State Electronics, Vacuum Electronics Power Amplifiers, and Nanoelectronics. The project supports development of technologies to enable capabilities in Missile Defense, Directed Energy, Platform Protection, Time Critical Strike, and Information Distribution. This project directly supports the Department of War Joint Warfighter Plan and the Defense Technology Area Plans. Activities and efforts within this program have attributes that focus on enhancing the affordability of warfighting systems. The program also provides for technology efforts to maintain proactive connectivity and collaboration between Department Of the Navy (DON) Science and Technology (S&T) and Joint, Navy, and Marine Corps commands worldwide. Due to the number of efforts in this Program Element (PE), the programs described herein are representative of the work included in this PE.
Project 0000 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 | 85.4 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 79.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 74.6 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 79.8 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 83.7 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 81.4 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 82.4 |
8 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. 3 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.
Electronic Warfare: - Continue research in federated, coordinated, and integrated Electronic Warfare (EW) systems for the development of distributed EW technologies for Electronic Surveillance (ES), decoys and countermeasures, and Electronic Attack (EA) against adversary Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence…
Read the FY2027 plan →EO/IR Sensor Technologies: - Continue efforts to develop and test optical architectures to demonstrate simultaneous wide Field of View (FOV) and high-resolution imaging for search, detection, classification, identification and targeting functions. - Continue research and development of novel Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance…
Read the FY2027 plan →Navigation Technology: - Continue development on next generation atomic clocks to improve long-term stability and precision. - Continue development of earth magnetic anomaly maps for improved magnetic navigation. - Continue development of magnetic anomaly-aided navigation systems. - Continue development of celestial navigation and…
Read the FY2027 plan →FY2027 planned work Surveillance Technology: - Continue efforts to develop affordable and scalable advanced antenna apertures. - Continue efforts to develop electronics and signal processing to enable Radio Frequency (RF) agility and waveform diversity to provide enhanced capability to find, fix, track, target, and assess targets and threats as well as provide automatic target identification. - Continue efforts on methods to mitigate Electronic Attack (EA) and Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) to RF sensors and networks. - Continue development of hardware and software for arbitrary waveform generation for agile radar systems. - Continue effort focused on novel signal processing architectures for phased array…
FY2026 to FY2027 change The funding decrease from FY 2026 to FY 2027 reflects reduced investments in Surveillance Technology Applied Research to meet higher priority Navy requirements.
FY2026 plans — current year Surveillance Technology: - Continue efforts to develop affordable and scalable advanced antenna apertures. - Continue efforts to develop electronics and signal processing to enable Radio Frequency (RF) agility and waveform diversity to provide enhanced capability to find, fix, track, target, and assess targets and threats as well as provide automatic target identification. - Continue efforts on methods to mitigate Electronic Attack (EA) and Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) to RF sensors and networks. - Continue development of hardware and software for arbitrary waveform generation for agile radar systems. - Continue development of novel field sensors and transducers for future radar…
FY2027 planned work Solid State Electronics: - Continue metal nitride heterostructure mm-wave device investigations. - Continue research of solid-state devices for high frequency analog and digital operation; high efficiency, highly linear amplifiers for microwave, millimeter-wave, low-noise, and power applications. - Continue development and transition of nitrogen-polar based High-Electron-Mobility Transistor (HEMT) technology for advanced linear receivers and efficient transmitters. - Continue relaxed III-nitride channel mm-wave N-polar device development. - Continue low-cost substrate Gallium Nitride (GaN) technology for ubiquitous mm-wave transceivers deployment. - Continue development of high figure of…
FY2026 to FY2027 change The funding decrease from FY 2026 to FY 2027 reflects reduced investments in Solid State Electronics Applied Research to meet higher priority Navy requirements.
FY2026 plans — current year Solid-State Electronics: - Continue metal nitride heterostructure mm-wave device investigations. - Continue research of solid-state devices for high frequency analog and digital operation; high efficiency, highly linear amplifiers for microwave, millimeter-wave, low-noise, and power applications - Continue development and transition of nitrogen-polar based High-Electron-Mobility Transistor (HEMT) technology for advanced linear receivers and efficient transmitters. - Continue development of superconducting GaN/niobium nitride heterostructures for Josephson junctions and Millimeter Wave (MMW) resonator circuits. - Continue Millimeter Wave (MMW) to Terahertz (THz) plasmonic photomixer-based…
FY2027 planned work Sensor Technology: - Continue research into distributed multi-band RF 3D sensor devices for detecting and tracking challenging naval threats. - Continue research into distributed & adaptive optical 3D sensor devices for detecting and tracking naval threats during all-weather & day/night conditions. - Continue research into Artificial Intelligent & machine learning techniques that generate autonomous task planning and de-confliction between multiple ISRT satellites observing a defined Area-of-Interest. - Initiate Agile development of prototype algorithms & software containers that can be deployed on small form-factor satellites for on-orbit experimentation. - Initiate research into…
FY2026 to FY2027 change There is no significant funding change from FY 2026 to FY 2027.
FY2026 plans — current year Sensor Technology: - Initiate applied research for investigating & developing: 1) distributed multi-band radio frequency (RF) 3D sensor devices for detecting and tracking challenging naval threats; 2) distributed & adaptive optical 3D sensor devices for detecting and tracking naval threats during all-weather & day/night conditions; and 3) machine learning algorithms that generate autonomous task planning & de-confliction between multiple ISRT satellites observing a defined Area-of-Interest. Effects Technology: - Initiate applied research for investigating & creating: 1) computationally fast & lightweight high-fidelity physics algorithms for predicting and simulating atmospheric distortion…
FY2027 planned work Signal Processing for Naval Applications: - Continue the development of polarization-based radar processing for ocean clutter rejection. - Initiate the implementation of real time polarization-based algorithms for radar signal processing.
FY2026 to FY2027 change There is no significant funding change from FY 2026 to FY 2027.
FY2026 plans — current year - Initiate polarization-based radar processing for clutter rejection.
FY2026 to FY2027 change The funding decrease from FY 2026 to FY 2027 reflects the completion of research efforts in the area of vacuum electronics power amplifiers.
FY2026 plans — current year - Complete the development of Radio Frequency (RF) Vacuum Technologies. The goal of this thrust is to develop high-performance vacuum electron devices to enable future Navy RF systems and ensure Navy electromagnetic spectrum dominance across the microwave and millimeter-wave frequency bands, nominally 3 GHz - 300 GHz. These systems are important for defense applications such as electronic warfare, high-resolution radar, high-data-rate communications, and RF power beaming. This is an expansion of efforts towards the development of Millimeter Wave and sub-MMW power amplifiers for use in Naval all-weather radar, surveillance, reconnaissance, electronic attack, and communications systems…