# Project 0000 — Electromagnetic Systems Applied Research

**Program element:** 0602271N — Electromagnetic Systems Applied Research  
**Project:** 0000  
**Component:** U.S. Navy  
**Appropriation:** 1319 — RDT&E, Navy  
**Budget Activity:** 2 — Applied Research  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602271N/0000  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602271N

## Summary

Project 0000 — Electromagnetic Systems Applied Research requests $74.6M in FY2027, 100% of the $74.6M requested for program element 0602271N, down 6.7% on FY2026. 8 R-2A activities decompose the request.

## Funding profile

| 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 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0602271N; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## 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.

## Activities (R-2A) — 8

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electronic Warfare Technology | 34.7 | 31.7 | 33.5 | +6% | [a0](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602271N/0000/a0) |
| EO/IR Sensor Technologies | 11.7 | 6.7 | 11.5 | +72% | [a1](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602271N/0000/a1) |
| Navigation Technology | 14.2 | 12.8 | 11.0 | −14% | [a2](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602271N/0000/a2) |
| Surveillance Technology | 16.6 | 14.0 | 7.7 | −45% | — |
| Solid State Electronics | 6.8 | 7.3 | 5.1 | −31% | — |
| Naval Space Sensors and Effects | 0.0 | 4.8 | 4.0 | −17% | — |
| Signal Processing for Naval Applications | 0.0 | 2.0 | 1.8 | −11% | — |
| Vacuum Electronics Power Amplifiers | 1.3 | 0.6 | 0.0 | −100% | — |

> 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.

### Electronic Warfare Technology

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…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602271N/0000/a0

### EO/IR Sensor Technologies

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…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602271N/0000/a1

### Navigation Technology

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…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602271N/0000/a2

### Surveillance Technology

**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 radar systems that efficiently implement non-traditional radar algorithms. - Continue development of distributed aperture radar systems with improved spatial and waveform agility. - Continue efforts to integrate high-power microwave switches into beam-agile reflect-array architectures, focusing on scaling and integration challenges. - Complete development of novel field sensors and transducers for future radar architectures. Electromagnetic Warfare: - Continue research into Radar Technologies. The goal is to conduct applied research to broadly expand the state-of-the-art capabilities of radar systems across the RF spectrum, from High Frequency (HF) Over the Horizon (OTH) radars to Millimeter Wave (MMW) radars, and encompasses enabling technologies, architectures, and algorithms. Further, it develops concepts, techniques, and technologies to advance critical capabilities in radar signal processing, waveform design, environmental characterization & adaptation, and provide robust electronic protection of radar systems from adversary electronic attack This is an expansion on previous efforts into the technology base for RF surveillance white using active and passive monostatic and distributed sensor concepts.

**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 architectures. - Continue effort focused on novel signal processing architectures for phased array radar systems that efficiently implement non-traditional radar algorithms. - Continue development of distributed aperture radar systems with improved spatial and waveform agility. - Complete development of front-end components and phased array architectures that enable concurrent wideband radar and Electronic Support (ES) functions. - Initiate efforts for integrating high-power microwave switches into beam-agile reflect-array architectures. Electromagnetic Warfare: - Continue research into Radar Technologies. The goal is to conduct applied research to broadly expand the state-of-the-art capabilities of radar systems across the RF spectrum, from High Frequency (HF) Over the Horizon (OTH) radars to Millimeter Wave (MMW) radars, and encompasses enabling technologies, architectures, and algorithms. Further, it develops concepts, techniques, and technologies to advance critical capabilities in radar signal processing, waveform design, environmental characterization & adaptation, and provide robust electronic protection of radar systems from adversary electronic attack This is an expansion on previous efforts into the technology base for RF surveillance white using active and passive monostatic and distributed sensor concepts.

### Solid State Electronics

**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 merit Nitrogen-polar GaN Transmit/Receive (T/R) switches. - Continue evaluation of epitaxial High overtone Bulk Acoustic Resonators (epi-HBARs) integrated in metal nitride and III-Nitride Heterostructures. - Continue in Radio-Frequency (RF) Solid State Technologies which will develop technologies to ensure dominance of the RF electromagnetic spectrum from megahertz frequencies through the terahertz regime. Investments are focused to realize significant improvements in power, bandwidth, efficiency, sensitivity, linearity, dynamic range, and agility in a cost effective manner. Solutions emphasizing efficiency, compactness, and affordability are emphasized in order to address prime power constraints imposed on both large platforms and distributed autonomous systems operating solely or in a swarm environment. This is an expansion on previously discussed efforts towards the development of new types of quantum-based sensors for the measurement of motion and fields, which combine high sensitivity with features that improve the practicality of the technologies, to include continuous, high-bandwidth measurement, and low Size Weight and Power (SWaP). - Continue in Quantum Information Technologies. The goal of this area is to exploit the quantum principles of superposition, entanglement, and nonclassical correlation to provide sensors, communications technologies, and computation/simulation techniques that are superior to those available with conventional technologies. Areas of research include but are not limited to sensors that provide calibration-free and/or quantum-limited measurement of fields, forces, motion, and time; communications and networking technologies based on nonclassical electromagnetic fields; and methods for employing quantum information processing to address computational challenges that are infeasible for classical computers. - Complete development of superconducting GaN/niobium nitride heterostructures for Josephson junctions and Millimeter Wave (MMW) resonator circuits. - Complete Millimeter Wave (MMW) to Terahertz (THz) plasmonic photomixer-based focal plane. - Complete integrated circuit development in conventional superconductors and Gallium Nitride (GaN) as platforms for quantum-based functional components.

**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 focal plane. - Continue relaxed III-nitride channel mm-wave N-polar device development. - Continue integrated circuit development in conventional superconductors and Gallium Nitride (GaN) as platforms for quantum-based functional components. - Continue low-cost substrate GaN technology for ubiquitous mm-wave transceivers deployment. - Continue development of high figure of merit Nitrogen-polar GaN Transmit/Receive (T/R) switches. - Continue evaluation of epitaxial High overtone Bulk Acoustic Resonators (epi-HBARs) integrated in metal nitride and III-Nitride Heterostructures. - Continue in Radio-Frequency (RF) Solid State Technologies which will develop technologies to ensure dominance of the RF electromagnetic spectrum from megahertz frequencies through the terahertz regime. Investments are focused to realize significant improvements in power, bandwidth, efficiency, sensitivity, linearity, dynamic range, and agility in a cost effective manner. Solutions emphasizing efficiency, compactness, and affordability are emphasized in order to address prime power constraints imposed on both large platforms and distributed autonomous systems operating solely or in a swarm environment. This is an expansion on previously discussed efforts towards the development of new types of quantum-based sensors for the measurement of motion and fields, which combine high sensitivity with features that improve the practicality of the technologies, to include continuous, high-bandwidth measurement, and low Size Weight and Power (SWaP). - Continue in Quantum Information Technologies. The goal of this area is to exploit the quantum principles of superposition, entanglement, and nonclassical correlation to provide sensors, communications technologies, and computation/simulation techniques that are superior to those available with conventional technologies. Areas of research include but are not limited to sensors that provide calibration-free and/or quantum-limited measurement of fields, forces, motion, and time; communications and networking technologies based on nonclassical electromagnetic fields; and methods for employing quantum information processing to address computational challenges that are infeasible for classical computers.

### Naval Space Sensors and Effects

**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 computationally fast & extremely lightweight signal processing techniques for RF & optical sensor devices. Effects Technology: - Continue research and initiate development of computationally fast, parallelizable & lightweight high-fidelity physics algorithms for predicting and simulating electromagnetic (EM) signal distortion effects caused by various plasma phenomena. - Continue research in machine learning techniques that mitigate or recover distorted EM signals. - Initiate development of proof-of-concept algorithms for laboratory and field experimentation. - Initiate research into understanding, creating, and measuring exotic plasma states & sources in endo- and exo-atmospheric environments.

**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 effects on electromagnetic signal propagation caused by various plasma phenomena; and 2) machine learning algorithms & techniques that mitigate and reconstruct distorted electromagnetic signals.

### Signal Processing for Naval Applications

**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.

### Vacuum Electronics Power Amplifiers

**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. Efforts are focused on the development of technologies for high-data-rate communications, electronic warfare and high-power radar applications at MMW and sub-MMW regimes.

## 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/0602271N.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Navy RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0602271N project 0000 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0602271N")`.

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