What project 0000 buys
This PE funds applied research efforts in undersea target detection, classification, localization, tracking, and neutralization. Associated efforts focus on new Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) operational concepts that promise to improve wide-area surveillance, detection, localization, tracking, and attack capabilities against quiet adversary submarines operating in noisy and cluttered shallow water environments. Related efforts are aimed at leveraging technologies that will protect the country's current capital investment in surveillance, submarine, surface ship, and air ASW assets.
Project 0000 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.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 60.2 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 64.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 52.5 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 57.3 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 58.2 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 57.0 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 58.2 |
5 accomplishments / planned programs
The R-2A exhibit — the only level of the budget that describes work that has not happened yet. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only, no five-year plan. 3 of them describe FY2027 work in enough detail to have their own page; the rest are shown here in full. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
-Continue Active Sonar development of advanced signal and information processing for high duty cycle active sonar. Further development of concepts for next-generation active sonar system automation, leveraging the latest advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence. -Continue non-acoustic, orthogonal concepts that complement…
Read the FY2027 plan →-Continue Sonar signal processing related research to develop artificial intelligence technology providing optimized sonar system line-ups that adjust themselves in real time to the current undersea environment. -Continue Sonar exploitation of the information content of ambient noise, creating novel tactical detection methods that…
Read the FY2027 plan →- Continue applied research related to critical Science and Technology (S&T) for Rapid-Reaction Undersea Weapons and Counter-Measures, High-Speed Vehicle Technology, Undersea Warheads Technology, RPG-of-the-Sea and Air-Independent Power and Energy. - Continue applied research to explore additional transition opportunities for…
Read the FY2027 plan →FY2027 planned work -Continue Precision Localization research on advanced sensing modalities and sampling approaches. Investigate alternative emethods for Precision Localization leveraging magnetic and electric field sensing technologies and incorporating alternative technologies and approaches. -Continue sensors research into novel methods to develop smaller and power efficient, high performance magnetic, electric field, acoustic, and novel sensors. Continue research on advanced concepts for processing arrays of independent sensors to create adaptive information theoretic sensor systems. Continue applied research into information theoretic optical sampling and telemetry characteristics to better support…
FY2026 to FY2027 change There is no significant change between FY 2026 and FY2027 funding.
FY2026 plans — current year -Continue Precision Localization research on advanced sensing modalities and sampling approaches. Investigate alternative emethods for Precision Localization leveraging magnetic and electric field sensing technologies and incorporating alternative technologies and approaches. -Continue sensors research into novel methods to develop smaller and power efficient, high performance magnetic, electric field, acoustic, and novel sensors. Continue research on advanced concepts for processing arrays of independent sensors to create adaptive information theoretic sensor systems. Continue applied research into information theoretic optical sampling and telemetry characteristics to better support…
FY2027 planned work -Continue efforts of applied research in areas including monitoring and detection, integrated ecosystem, and effects of Anti- Submarine Warfare (ASW) sonar on marine species -Continue Passive Acoustic Monitoring research efforts on passive acoustics and other technology supporting wide area surveillance, including the development and testing of new autonomous hardware platforms and signal processing algorithms for detection, classification, and localization of marine species. -Continue research to advance our understanding of sound reception mechanisms in large whales including the anatomy surrounding the ear and the whole head to improve and validate finite element models of sound…
FY2026 to FY2027 change Decrease in funding from FY2026 to FY2027 is due to decreased research efforts across multiple areas including passive acoustics monitoring, sonar exposure research, and marine species behavior.
FY2026 plans — current year -Continue efforts of applied research in areas including monitoring and detection, integrated ecosystem, and effects of Anti- Submarine Warfare (ASW) sonar on marine mammals. -Continue Passive Acoustic Monitoring research efforts on passive acoustics and other technology supporting wide area surveillance, including the development and testing of new autonomous hardware platforms and signal processing algorithms for detection, classification, and localization of marine mammals. -Continue research using animal tagging and passive acoustic monitoring to quantify behaviors, movement, and distribution of marine mammals relative to key environmental properties and sonar exposure, both incidental…