# Force Protection

**R-2A activity** of project 1510 — Expeditionary Campaign  
**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/1510/a1  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602750N/1510

> **NEW START.** $12.4M requested in FY2027 with no prior-year and no current-year funding.

## Summary

This activity requests $12.4M in FY2027, 67% of project 1510 — a new start with no prior-year and no current-year money. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2027 planned work.** - Initiate research in the area of increased range and lethality for small form factor weapon systems in support of EABO. (Expeditionary Maneuver Warfare (EMW) and Combating Terrorism) - Initiate research to improve warfighter effectiveness in command, control, computers and communication, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance in the area of electromagnetic spectrum analysis and signature management. (Expeditionary Maneuver Warfare (EMW) and Combating Terrorism) - Initiate the development of acoustic and non-acoustic sensors and transduction systems as a means to provide next-generation sensing technologies to provide undersea monitoring and tracking in the littorals by expeditionary forces. (Expeditionary Maneuver Warfare (EMW) and Combating Terrorism) (UNSEEN) - Initiate research to develop flexible, intermediate force capability to defend against small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm attacks as well as civilian vehicles in congested urban environments for protection of relatively small, dispersed advanced expeditionary bases in the littorals operating within the operational engagement envelop of a potential adversary. - Initiate research to develop generalized technique for synchronizing compact, mobile amplifier-HPM nodes to form a scalable, distributed HPM (DHPM) source network that will determine, in real time, optimal coupling spectrum of the target(s) for increased target susceptibility and lethality. - Initiate research effort to provide a counter-swarm solution using a swarm of networked low-cost kinetic interceptors. - Initiate subsystems research for a fused, multimodal, in-stride detection and neutralization program to rapidly detect and reduce explosive hazards. (In-stride Detect, Avoid, and Neutralize) - Initiate heterogeneous sensors to expedite port damage and repair assessments from unmanned systems. (Port Damage Assessment Technologies)

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** The increase in funding from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to the realignment and consolidation of all expeditionary funding requirements within PE 0602750N from planned program in Projects 1502 C5ISR/Naval Space, 1503 Directed Energy & Kinetic Systems and 1508 Undersea Systems into the new Project 1510 Expeditionary Campaign. Planned programs have been updated to align to current expeditionary priorities.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 12.4 |

> 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 1510

- Human Performance, Training and Education — FY2027 3.3
- Command, Control, Communications, and Computers (C4) — FY2027 2.4
- Logistics — FY2027 0.5

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Navy RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0602750N project 1510 (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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