Project TT-04
$0.0MFY2027 request ADVANCED LAND SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY
FY2025 actual$22.2M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
FY2027 Request
$0.0M
No FY2026 funding
FY2026 Enacted
$0.0M
▼ 100% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$112.7M
Prior year
Roll-up of 3 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 $0.0M for Tactical Technology under RDT&E program element 0602702E, against nothing enacted in FY2026.
Funding trajectory
Funding profile, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 112.7 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 0.0 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 0.0 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 0.0 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 0.0 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 0.0 |
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
3 projects roll up into PE 0602702E
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.
Project TT-07
$0.0MFY2027 request AERONAUTICS AND SPACE TECHNOLOGY
FY2025 actual$60.6M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Project TT-13
$0.0MFY2027 request INFORMATION ANALYTICS TECHNOLOGY
FY2025 actual$29.9M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Program detail
Mission & acquisition strategy
The efforts described in this Program Element (PE) address the Applied Research associated with the Tactical Technology Program that supports the advancement of concepts and technologies to enhance the next generation of tactical systems. This PE funds a number of projects in the areas of Advanced Land Systems, Aeronautics and Space Technology and Information Analytics Technology. This PE also supports innovation and robust transition planning in the technology cycle by working with entrepreneurs to increase the likelihood that DARPA-funded technologies take root in the U.S. and provide new capabilities for national defense.
Project TT-04, TT-07, TT-13 — ADVANCED LAND SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY
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Sources
FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification · Exhibits R-2 / R-3 · PE 0602702E (President's Budget PB2027).
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HitchAI, "Tactical Technology (PE 0602702E)," federal budget intelligence, PB2027 vintage. hitchintel.com/programs/0602702E
Machine access
FY2027 Request
$0.0M
No FY2026 funding
FY2026 Enacted
$0.0M
▼ 100% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$22.2M
Prior year
ADVANCED LAND SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY — one RDT&E project inside PE 0602702E. Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, not on a project.
Project TT-04 — ADVANCED LAND SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY — requests $0.0M in FY2027.
Funding trajectory
Project TT-04 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 22.2 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 0.0 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 0.0 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 0.0 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 0.0 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 0.0 |
Inside the project
2 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.
Expeditionary Carbon Utilization for energy Resilience and Stabilization (ExCURSion)
FY2025 actual$10.2M
FY2026 enacted—
FY2027 request—
FY2025 accomplishments - Initiated development of carbon dioxide reactors to address mass and energy transport-based rate limitations in carbon dioxide reduction. - Conducted development of carbon dioxide reduction catalysts that take advantage of nanoscale features to achieve high fuel production rates. - Developed carbon dioxide sorbent materials with high working capacities and demonstrated initial stability with cycling.
Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency (RACER)
FY2025 actual$12.0M
FY2026 enacted—
FY2027 request—
FY2025 accomplishments - Conducted final capstone Government-hosted field experiments with large-scale platform (combat vehicle scale) in environments that contained relevant complexity and obstacle classes. - Supported integration of the large-scale platform into US Army exercises with a combat payload to demonstrate feasibility in combat formations.
Project detail
What project TT-04 buys
The Advanced Land Systems Technology project is developing technologies for enhancing U.S. military effectiveness and survivability in operations ranging from traditional threats to military operations against irregular forces that can employ disruptive or catastrophic capabilities, or disrupt stabilization operations, including competing in underground spaces. Programs in this project will break the relative symmetry of land combat to strengthen and maintain U.S. forces' decisive advantages in the current and future ground battlefield. The emphasis is on developing affordable technologies that reduce reliance on consolidated forward-operating bases and required lines of communication, and provide small units and individual warfighters with hyper-mobility and hyper-lethality. This project will develop methods and technologies to expand the maneuver trade space to include the vertical dimension, including subterranean environments, as well as underground spaces. It will leverage advances in artificial intelligence to enable integrated manned-unmanned operations and decrease warfighter exposure through the use of autonomous agents. Beginning in FY 2026, efforts in this Project will be funded in PE 0602023E, Project ACS-01.
FY2027 Request
$0.0M
No FY2026 funding
FY2026 Enacted
$0.0M
▼ 100% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$60.6M
Prior year
AERONAUTICS AND SPACE TECHNOLOGY — one RDT&E project inside PE 0602702E. Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, not on a project.
Project TT-07 — AERONAUTICS AND SPACE TECHNOLOGY — requests $0.0M in FY2027.
Funding trajectory
Project TT-07 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 60.6 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 0.0 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 0.0 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 0.0 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 0.0 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 0.0 |
Inside the project
6 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.
Oversight
FY2025 actual$21.2M
FY2026 enacted—
FY2027 request—
FY2025 accomplishments - Delivered performer-developed suite of applications and services that will run in the government-owned modeling and simulation environment. - Demonstrated performer-developed software in the modeling and simulation environment. - Conducted live hardware demonstration events, demonstrating the ability to handle wider arrays of complex track custody scenarios.
Next Generation Electronic Surveillance Technology (NGEST)
FY2025 actual$9.9M
FY2026 enacted—
FY2027 request—
FY2025 accomplishments - Developed algorithms for autonomous orchestration of diverse frequency and spatial resources. - Integrated algorithms in a modeling and simulation testbed and analyzed performance in complex signal environments.
Albatross
FY2025 actual$21.9M
FY2026 enacted—
FY2027 request—
FY2025 accomplishments - Demonstrated modification readiness of existing unmanned systems for integration of soaring capabilities. - Integrated onboard test instrumentation for soaring characterization. - Developed low-power flight path mission planning software to account for static soaring conditions. - Developed software/hardware algorithms for aircraft to respond to static soaring conditions and harness energy.
Lunar Assay via Small Satellite Orbiter (LASSO)
FY2025 actual$2.2M
FY2026 enacted—
FY2027 request—
FY2025 accomplishments - Developed initial framework for resource data sharing.
Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay (POWER)
FY2025 actual$3.9M
FY2026 enacted—
FY2027 request—
FY2025 accomplishments - Completed detailed design of hardware and software subsystems, including both relay and aircraft interfaces for two different methodologies culminating in successful Preliminary Design Reviews. - Completed demonstrations of sub-scale airborne relay subsystems built and tested by at least two performers, retiring critical risks for future developments.
Advanced Aeronautics and Space Technologies
FY2025 actual$1.5M
FY2026 enacted—
FY2027 request—
FY2025 accomplishments - Explored updated and new architectures for aerospace vehicle concepts. - Improved ability of piloted and unpiloted vehicles to cooperate to enhance mission effectiveness.
Project detail
What project TT-07 buys
Aeronautics and Space Technology efforts is addressing high payoff opportunities that dramatically reduce costs associated with advanced aeronautical and space systems and/or provide revolutionary new system capabilities for satisfying current and projected military mission requirements. This includes advanced technology studies of revolutionary propulsion, vehicle, and launch concepts, sophisticated fabrication methods, and examination of novel materials and enabling technologies for aeronautics and space system applications. Studies that also fundamentally change the calculus of battle including consideration of a mix of assets, platforms that are potentially disposable or with limited lifespans, and autonomous integration of space and air platforms in the tactical battlespace are included. Beginning in FY 2026, efforts in this Project will be funded in PE 0602023E, Project ACS-01.
FY2027 Request
$0.0M
No FY2026 funding
FY2026 Enacted
$0.0M
▼ 100% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$29.9M
Prior year
INFORMATION ANALYTICS TECHNOLOGY — one RDT&E project inside PE 0602702E. Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, not on a project.
Project TT-13 — INFORMATION ANALYTICS TECHNOLOGY — requests $0.0M in FY2027.
Funding trajectory
Project TT-13 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 29.9 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 0.0 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 0.0 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 0.0 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 0.0 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 0.0 |
Inside the project
2 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.
Resilient Supply-and-Demand Networks (RSDN)
FY2025 actual$15.5M
FY2026 enacted—
FY2027 request—
FY2025 accomplishments - Developed privacy-preserving functionality to permit analysis of sensitive data to inform supply and demand network representations, analytics, and stress tests. - Developed techniques to identify contingency features in contracts to support machine learning that highlight patterns of fragility. - Demonstrated forward and backward stress-testing capabilities on selected use cases for potential transition partners. - Collaborated with Department of Defense stakeholders to evaluate technologies against adversary influence campaigns and within additional negotiation scenarios.
Defense Applications of Innovative Remote Sensing (DAIRS)
FY2025 actual$14.4M
FY2026 enacted—
FY2027 request—
FY2025 accomplishments - Collected, characterized, and delivered in-situ data from the relevant low-latitude environment. - Conducted algorithmic development on passive noise radar, target classification and spread-Doppler clutter reduction techniques. - Demonstrated techniques and lessons learned in follow-on collection campaigns.
Project detail
What project TT-13 buys
The Information Analytics Technology project developed technology for analyzing data and information arising from: 1) intelligence networks; 2) open sources, social and broadcast media, and other external sources; 3) sensors and signal/image processors; and 4) collection platforms and weapon systems. Technical challenges included processing huge volumes of diverse, incomplete, and uncertain data in tactically relevant timeframes and countering the information operations of sophisticated adversaries who seek to deceive, degrade, deny, and disrupt the U.S. information enterprise. Benefits sought included a deeper understanding of the evolving operational environment tailored to the needs of commanders at every echelon; an enhanced capability to plan, monitor, and control diverse military operations ranging from stabilization and information operations to combat engagements; and increased efficiency of core military functions such as national and homeland security, warfighter protection, and defense support of law enforcement and civil authorities. Beginning in FY 2026, efforts in this Project will be funded in PE 0603467E, Project DAT-01.