What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 0000 of PE 0602271N. This is the budget justification's own description of work that has not happened yet — the one thing no other level of the budget carries.
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, Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Targeting (C4ISRT). This EW research includes Electronic Protection (EP) for our own weapons and Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber Defense, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) systems allowing them to operate in a heavily contested environment. - Continue research into developing Artificial Intelligence (AI)-generated tactics against modern and emerging radar sources to improve naval mission effectiveness. - Continue research and development in the area of hard-kill and soft-kill coordination and planning. - Continue research into simultaneous multi-spectral (Radio Frequency (RF) and optical) countermeasure development to increase survivability across the entire electromagnetic spectrum and continue development of coordinated EW techniques between RF and Electro-Optic/Infrared (EO/IR) transmitters and receivers for single and distributed platforms. - Continue development and implementation of combined EW and cyber effects to increase the reach and effectiveness of each domain in support of distributed maritime operations. - Continue research into distributed EA techniques to develop advanced, coordinated countermeasures against the entire kill chain from far left of launch through terminal phase; components of this research will also include hardware/software payload re-configurability, multi-functionality and heterogeneity in low size, weight and power formats. - Continue research into wide bandwidth adaptable front-end technologies with improved simultaneous transmit and receive capabilities for survivability in a contested and congested electromagnetic spectrum. - Continue research into techniques for sharing spectrum knowledge across distributed manned and unmanned platforms in a congested electromagnetic spectrum environment. - Complete research into heterogeneously integrated EW co-processors to enable real-time ES and EA effects across wide bandwidths. Electromagnetic Warfare: - Continue research applied research efforts that cover the development of new technologies and techniques for Electronic Support (ES), Electronic Attack (EA), and supporting technologies in Electromagnetic Warfare (EmW) Technologies. Passive ES technologies are developed to detect, deinterleave, classify, identify, geolocate, provide situational awareness, and queue EA systems. Active EA technologies are developed to counter the capability of the adversary to detect, locate, target and track U.S. and friendly forces. It also includes the development of advanced signal processing and receiver technologies and the development of an electromagnetic responses to include offboard decoys, onboard electronic attack, and resources required to coordinate an integrated response.
The funding increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 reflects increased investments in both distributed EW and cognitive-based EW research to improve effectiveness against modern and future agile radar and anti-ship missile threats.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
Electronic Warfare (EW): - 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, Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Targeting (C4ISRT). This EW research includes Electronic Protection (EP) for our own weapons and Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber Defense, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) systems allowing them to operate in a heavily contested environment. - Continue research and development in the area of hard-kill and soft-kill coordination and planning. - Continue development and implementation of combined EW and cyber effects to increase the reach and effectiveness of each domain in support of distributed maritime operations. - Continue research into distributed EA techniques to develop advanced, coordinated countermeasures against the entire kill chain from far left of launch through terminal phase; components of this research will also include hardware/software payload re-configurability, multi-functionality and heterogeneity in low size, weight and power formats. - Continue research into developing Artificial Intelligence (AI)-generated tactics against modern and emerging radar sources to improve naval mission effectiveness. - Continue research into heterogeneously integrated EW co-processors to enable real-time ES and EA effects across wide bandwidths. - Continue research into wide bandwidth adaptable front-end technologies with improved simultaneous transmit and receive capabilities for survivability in a contested and congested electromagnetic spectrum. - Initiate research into techniques for sharing spectrum knowledge across distributed manned and unmanned platforms in a congested electromagnetic spectrum environment. - Initiate development of coordinated EW techniques between RF and Electro-Optic/Infrared (EO/IR) transmitters and receivers for single and distributed platforms. Electromagnetic Warfare: - Continue research applied research efforts that cover the development of new technologies and techniques for Electronic Support (ES), Electronic Attack (EA), and supporting technologies in Electromagnetic Warfare (EmW) Technologies. Passive ES technologies are developed to detect, deinterleave, classify, identify, geolocate, provide situational awareness, and queue EA systems. Active EA technologies are developed to counter the capability of the adversary to detect, locate, target and track U.S. and friendly forces. It also includes the development of advanced signal processing and receiver technologies and the development of an electromagnetic responses to include offboard decoys, onboard electronic attack, and resources required to coordinate an integrated response.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 34.7 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 31.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 33.5 |
This activity is 45% of project 0000's FY2027 request and 45% of PE 0602271N's. In the request year the activities under a project sum to it exactly; in the current year they under-cover it in about 9% of cases, so an activity's delta can legitimately exceed its parent's and the two must not be compared row to row.
8 activities in project 0000
Every R-2A line of this project, largest FY2027 request first. Linked where the activity has enough of its own narrative to carry a page; the rest are shown in full on the project page.