# Surveillance, Sensors and Phenomenology

**R-2A activity** of project 1502 — C5ISR/Naval Space  
**Program element:** 0602750N — Future Naval Capabilities Applied Research  
**Component:** U.S. Navy · **Budget Activity:** 2  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602750N/1502/a5  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602750N/1502

## Summary

This activity requests $10.6M in FY2027, 13% of project 1502, down 14% 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 development and implementation of novel hardware, algorithms and high-speed processing to enable detection of advanced maritime threats in both manmade and natural clutter at stand-off ranges. - Continue development and implementation of new electro-optic and infrared sensing capabilities including digital readouts for improved passive sensing of difficult threats in cluttered backgrounds. - Continue development of advanced sensor processing that improves Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Targeting of hard targets. - Continue development of advanced sensor array management algorithms to improve raid annihilation of advanced threats. - Complete development of multi-platform surveillance techniques and algorithms. - Initiate development of novel, active, electro-optic, short-range sensor for detecting and tracking of swarming UAS.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** The funding decrease from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to reduced investments in multi-platform surveillance technologies.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** Continue: - Developing and implementing novel hardware, algorithms and high-speed processing to enable detection of advanced maritime threats in both manmade and natural clutter at stand-off ranges. - Developing and implementing new electro-optic and infrared sensing capabilities including digital readouts for improved passive sensing of difficult threats in cluttered backgrounds. - Developing advanced sensor processing that improve Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Targeting of hard targets. - Development of multi-platform surveillance techniques and algorithms. Complete: - Developing polarimetric techniques for improving clutter and identification in maritime radars. Initiate: - Development of advanced sensor array management algorithms to improve raid annihilation of advanced threats.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 12.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 10.6 |

> 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 1502

- [Chimera (INP)](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602750N/1502/a8) — FY2027 25.6
- [Full Spectrum Cyber](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602750N/1502/a2) — FY2027 13.7
- Bright Eyes (INP) — FY2027 10.0
- Electromagnetic Warfare — FY2027 8.3
- Communications and Networking — FY2027 7.3
- Intelligence, Decision-Making Superiority, C2 and Combat Systems — FY2027 3.9
- Quantum, Positioning, Navigation, and Timing — FY2027 1.4
- Expeditionary Cyber — FY2027 0.0
- Expeditionary Electromagnetic Spectrum — FY2027 0.0

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Navy RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0602750N project 1502 (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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