# RG: Counter WMD Technologies and Capabilities Development

**R-2A activity** of project RG — CWMD TECHNOLOGIES AND CAPABILITIES DEVELOPMENT  
**Program element:** 0602718BR — Counter Weapons OF MASS Destruction Applied Research  
**Component:** Defense-Wide · **Budget Activity:** 2  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602718BR/RG/a0  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602718BR/RG

## Summary

This activity requests $29.9M in FY2027, 100% of project RG, up 11% on FY2026. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2025–FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2027 planned work.** - Provide foundational research tool to 500-1000 analysts which utilizes deep data extraction algorithms with a biomanufacturing ontology to identify research in this domain, people (researchers/authors), places (institutions/facilities) worldwide, chemical precursors, biomass source, production methods, and equipment linked to potential biomanufacturing of energetics. - Transition real-time mapping and situational awareness innovations to new end users for subterranean CWMD operations. - Deliver technical data package to DoW stakeholders to incorporate Mapping and Awareness for CWMD Operations-Blackout non-LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) mapping capabilities into other DoW programs. - Deliver non-LiDAR mapping system to Prometheus Torch for assessment as a Phase 3 solution. - Develop map compression algorithms for communication-limited operations. - Integrate advanced mapping capabilities into tactical uncrewed vehicles. - Use 3D maps to simulate breaching blasts to determine hazard standoff for mission personnel. - Identify two or more cognition-enhancing pre-treatment(s) and multiple alternative delivery systems for evaluation in translational laboratory model systems. - Identify pretreatments for enhancing human gut microbiome health and validate in established prototype/alternative animal model. - Transition Blue Raptor plug-in, embed in Joint Threat Warning System Air 3 program software to USSOCOM Program Executive Office Special Reconnaissance. - Assess feasibility of scalable production of high energy material precursors in biological systems. - Transition computer vision models to the SAFFIRE operational environment that support development of materials detection analysis and patterns of life activities with a focus on indicators and warnings. - Demonstrate an initial proof of concept of the Access Denial technology, Fly Out eXterminator, Maritime version to Navy transition partners, which provides warfighters with additional capabilities to destroy ballistic missiles & launchers left of launch.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** The increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 provides development of WMD defeat technology and multi-domain analytic tools. This increase ensures spending is in alignment with the Secretary of War's highest priorities to strengthen readiness, modernize capabilities, and sustain the force.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** - Deliver advanced additive manufacturing capabilities within the Next Generation Defeat portfolio to maintain and enhance existing capabilities, improve weapons performance, and expand manufacturing technical capabilities. - Down select and mature energetic candidates of next generation weapons designed to hold high value Hard and Deeply Buried Targets at risk. - Develop and deliver advanced diagnostics equipment designed to characterize detonation environments. This equipment supports high fidelity modeling and simulation. - Develop Active Denial for Targets Right of Line Evolution capabilities to optimize rubble generation to deny adversary use of Hard and Deeply Buried Targets. - Develop and improve next generation multi-agent coordination and data-fusion core algorithms and software architectures to enable the use of more unmanned systems in parallel with reduced cognitive burden on human operator(s) and teammates. - Develop a prototype set of CWMD modular mission payloads to provide kinetic and non-kinetic effects through integration across a family of autonomous ground and air robots. - Collaborate with military academies to address next generation autonomy challenges while advancing critical science, technology, engineering, and mathematics skills amongst future CWMD workforce. - Develop additional Tactical Assault Kit plug-in tools. - Deliver improved untethered foreign language and audio signature analytics, improving United State Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) campaigning capabilities by increasing foreign language translation capacity at the edge and decreasing lag time to exploit opportunities. - Deliver increased integration into networked ground and aerial sensors, improving location data associated with audio feeds by decreasing geo-location error. - Transition the Blue Raptor plug-in, embedded in the Joint Threat Warning System Air 3 program software, to USSOCOM. - Transition real-time mapping and situational awareness innovations for subterranean CWMD operations. - Deliver technical data packages to DoW stakeholders to produce Government off-the-shelf Software for the Mapping and Awareness for CWMD Operations systems. - Develop map compression algorithms for comms-limited operations in subterranean conditions. - Develop 3D maps to simulate breaching blasts to determine hazard standoff for mission personnel. - Advance novel map visualizations in augmented reality to reduce incidence of mission errors. - Develop live streaming capability of facility schematics including key facility attributes (infrastructure, access points, etc.) for use during CWMD operations. - Transition a compact, standalone Subterranean Personnel Tracker solution for tracking personnel in the global positioning system-denied environments. - Deliver improved automated targeting capabilities utilizing continuous machine learning and trained neural networks to automate portions of the targeting process improving lethality against WMD and Hard and Deeply Buried Targets.

**FY2025 accomplishments.** - Continue to advance additive manufacturing capabilities within the Next Generation Defeat portfolio in order to enhance/improve current capabilities. - Research and develop an initial prototype for small-scale testing of a ruggedized/miniaturized high-powered laser to meet the needs of Explosive Ordnance Disposal CWMD defeat. - Research and develop an initial prototype for novel 3-D energetics to enable end-users to disrupt upstream WMD. - Develop and improve next generation core Modular Autonomous CWMD System single-platform autonomous navigation as well as multi-agent coordination and data-fusion competencies and core algorithms to enable improved Manned-Unmanned-Teaming. - Finish the final three tests of the Agent Defeat Modeling and Simulation Baseline capstone test series. Perform post-capstone validation of agent release/defeat models and source term generation for collateral effects assessment. - Initiate Legacy Weapons Test Program with focus on pacing and acute time-sensitive mobile WMD threats. - Conduct blast response testing and residual capacity of precast columns, precast beam-column connections, and precast load-bearing walls in collaboration with Singapore. - Accredit and transition Optimized Weapon Load-out tool to the Integrated Munitions Effects Assessment Program improving the accuracy and fidelity of weapons effects models to aid targeting decisions against challenging pacing and acute threats. - Deliver improved automated targeting capabilities utilizing continuous machine learning and trained neural networks to automate portions of the targeting process improving lethality against WMD and Hard and Deeply Buried Targets. - Continue delivery of real-time mapping and situational awareness innovations for subterranean CWMD operations through Edge-Enhanced Mapping & Positioning System. - Develop streaming of underground facility schematics to contact lens displays. - Develop map compression algorithms for communications-limited operations. - Advance novel map visualizations in augmented reality to reduce incidence of mission errors.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 26.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 26.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 29.9 |

> 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.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0602718BR project RG (PB PB2027). Narrative is the government's own text.
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