# Aerodynamics, Navigation, and Control Technologies

**R-2A activity** of project 622068 — Advanced Guidance Technology  
**Program element:** 0602602F — Conventional Munitions  
**Component:** U.S. Air Force · **Budget Activity:** 2  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602602F/622068/a1  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602602F/622068

## Summary

This activity requests $33.9M in FY2027, 46% of project 622068, up 18% on FY2026. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2026–FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2027 planned work.** - Continue novel position, navigation, and timing technology development for weapons, focusing on robust and tailorable navigation for GPS degraded and denied environments with intent to insert into demonstration for weapon programs. Key areas of development include open architecture filter, sensor signal processing, single and multi-weapon cooperative navigation. - Continue investigation of cooperative, autonomous, and collaborative weapon behaviors, focusing on development of robust algorithms and swarming weapon playbooks for weapons guidance to increase mission performance and survivability. - Continue development and flight experiments of precision navigation, emphasizing cruise missile size, weight, and power, and cost navigation solutions for constrained/denied navigation environments. Targeting Vision, Magnetic Navigation, and non-GPS satellite aiding modalities feeding operational open-architecture navigation filters. - Stop flight testing of articulating head missile at supersonic speeds at full scale to include analysis of range extension through airframe morphing and articulation. - Continue computational intelligence learning to develop tactics for multi-weapon engagements, focusing on development and test of computational intelligence algorithms that can increase the capability and performance of a weapon. - Continue synthetic aperture radar-based alternative-navigation technology investigation to develop mission and cost, size, weight, and power navigation solutions for constrained/denied navigation environments. - Continue post-weapon deployment data analytics to improve guidance, navigation, and controls models and autonomy tactics, enabling development and test of computational intelligence algorithms that can increase the capability and performance of weapons guidance and control. - Continue flight experiments of networked collaborative autonomy plays and tactics for weapon survivability and lethality in contested environments, enabling collaborative multi-weapon maneuver algorithms development to increase battle state awareness and engagement. - Continue software enabled weapons research focused on accelerating data-driven weapon software updates. - Commence development of heterogeneous networked weapon software and hardware to enable interoperability to support weapon high-low mix employments. - Commence flight test of all-source positioning and navigation (ASPN) and weapon open system architecture (WOSA) compliant prototype/testbed, enabling development of third party modular alternative precision, navigation, and timing (alt-PNT) aiding technology. - Commence weapons size, weight, and power design of synthetic aperture radar-based alternative-navigation technology for global positioning system (GPS) denied environments to support flight testing on operationally relevant platforms. - Commence development of hardware-in-the-loop testbed for software enabled weapons to accelerate data-driven weapon software updates, aiding alignment with armament program offices.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** FY 2027 increased compared to FY 2026 by $5.292 million for technology investment to demonstrate non-GPS navigation sensors and architecture on guidance platforms in flight; develop networked weapon autonomy software, hardware, and architecture; and develop requirements to enable interoperability across multiple vendors within a weapon swarm in collaboration with customers.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** - Continue novel position, navigation, and timing technology development for weapons, focusing on robust and tailorable navigation for global positioning system degraded and denied environments with intent to insert into demonstration for weapon programs. Key areas of development include open architecture filter, sensor signal processing, and single and multi-weapon cooperative navigation. - Continue investigation of cooperative, autonomous, and collaborative weapon behaviors, focusing on development of robust algorithms and swarming weapon playbooks for weapons guidance to increase mission performance and survivability. - Continue development and flight experiments of precision navigation, emphasizing cruise missile size, weight, and power and cost navigation solutions for constrained/denied navigation environments. Targeting Vision, Magnetic Navigation, and non-global positioning system (GPS) satellite aiding modalities feeding operational open-architecture navigation filters. - Continue flight testing of articulating head missile at supersonic speeds at full scale to include analysis of range extension through airframe morphing and articulation. Key activities include developing computational tools, a material database, wind tunnel models, and expertise to rapidly develop new high-speed weapons technology. - Continue computational intelligence learning to develop tactics for multi-weapon engagements, focusing on development and test of computational intelligence algorithms that can increase the capability and performance of a weapon. - Continue synthetic aperture radar-based alternative-navigation technology investigation to develop mission and cost, size, weight, and power navigation solutions for constrained/denied navigation environments. - Continue post-weapon deployment data analytics to improve guidance, navigation, and controls models and autonomy tactics, enabling development and test of computational intelligence algorithms that can increase the capability and performance of weapons guidance and control. - Continue flight experiments of networked collaborative autonomy plays and tactics for weapon survivability and lethality in contested environments, enabling collaborative multi-weapon maneuver algorithms development to increase battle state awareness and engagement. - Complete kinetic and electronic attack swarm plays incorporating cyber domain, electronic warfare, and kinetic effects, supporting development of collaborative multi-agent maneuver algorithms increasing battle state awareness and engagements. - Commence software enabled weapons research focused on accelerating data-driven weapon software updates.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 31.6 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 28.6 |
| FY2027 | Request | 33.9 |

> Prior, current and budget year only — an R-2A activity carries no five-year plan. It sums exactly into its project in the request year and not necessarily in any other.

## Other activities in project 622068

- [Guidance Technologies](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602602F/622068/a2) — FY2027 26.2
- [Seeker Technologies](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602602F/622068/a0) — FY2027 14.3

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0602602F project 622068 (PB PB2027). Narrative is the government's own text.
- **No marks, no contractors at this grain** — congressional marks land on the program element and R-3 performers on the project.
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_activity`.

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