Project DI6
$1.2MFY2027 request ▼ 1%Anti-Tamper Advanced Tech Development
FY2025 actual$1.3M
FY2026 enacted$1.2M
FY2027 request$1.2M
FY2027 Request
$1.2M
▼ 95% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$26.2M
▲ 74% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$15.1M
Prior year
Roll-up of 6 projects. Projects are the summable leaves — the PE total is their sum, never added to it.
For fiscal year 2027, the U.S. Army is requesting $1.2M for C3I Advanced Technology under RDT&E program element 0603042A, down 95% from FY2026.
Funding trajectory
Funding profile, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 15.1 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 26.2 |
| FY2027 | Request | 1.2 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 1.2 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 1.3 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 1.3 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 1.3 |
Where it sits
Acquisition lifecycle
This program is funded in RDT&E Budget Activity 3 — Advanced Technology Development.
Complete
Research
BA 1–2
Current
Advanced Technology
BA 3
Later
Prototyping
BA 4
Later
Development & Fielding
BA 5–7
Inside the program element
6 projects roll up into PE 0603042A
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. This PE moves -95% overall, which can hide much larger swings below.
Project CU1
—FY2027 request ▼ 100%C3I Advanced Technology (CA)
FY2025 actual—
FY2026 enacted$11.2M
FY2027 request—
Project CX7
—FY2027 request ▼ 100%Intelligent Env Battlefield Awareness Adv Tech
FY2025 actual$7.9M
FY2026 enacted$7.4M
FY2027 request—
Project DB5
—FY2027 request ▼ 100%Enabling Long Standoff 3D (ELS3D) Adv Tech
FY2025 actual$1.5M
FY2026 enacted$2.6M
FY2027 request—
Project CX8
—FY2027 request ▼ 100%Persistent Geophysical Sensing-Infrasound Adv Tech
FY2025 actual$3.1M
FY2026 enacted$2.0M
FY2027 request—
Project CZ5
—FY2027 request ▼ 100%Subterranean Detection and Monitoring Adv Tech
FY2025 actual$1.4M
FY2026 enacted$1.8M
FY2027 request—
The whole program
ELS3D is funded on 2 lines across 1 appropriations
This program element requests nothing for ELS3D in FY2027. The program is still funded — $0.0M of it — but on other lines, which usually means the work is transferring.
| Also funded here | Type | Component | FY2027 $M |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enabling Long Standoff 3D (ELS3D) Tech | RDT&E | Army | — |
| ELS3D total | Army | 0.0 |
Lines whose title names the program. 1 further lines only mention ELS3D in their justification text — those fund something else and are deliberately excluded from the total.
Congressional action
Congressional marks
Committee marks on the FY2027 request. Adds and cuts are reconciled in conference before they become law.
RequestPresident's Budget
$1.2M
House NDAA (HASC)HASC
$3.7M +$2.5M · +206%
Senate NDAA (SASC)SASC
$1.2M full · +$0
House Approps (HAC-D)HAC_D
$12.8M +$11.5M · +953%
▲ $11.5M chamber gap — unresolved as of 2026-07-27. These are FY2027 authorization marks (NDAA); appropriations and the conference agreement may differ.
Program detail
Mission & acquisition strategy
This PE matures, demonstrates, optimizes, and validates Network Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I) technologies through the integration of future equipment and systems that improve overmatch and meet mission needs in the future operating environments. This PE provides mid-to-long term tactical C3I capabilities (e.g. networking, cyber, electronic warfare, Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT), space, persistent surveillance) based upon promising technologies that address emerging and future threats, and includes research critical and unique to the Army and DoW.
Project DI6, CU1, CX7, DB5, CX8, CZ5 — Anti-Tamper Advanced Tech Development
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Sources
FY2027 Department of the Army RDT&E Budget Justification · Exhibits R-2 / R-3 · PE 0603042A (President's Budget PB2027) — and FY2027 NDAA committee marks, as tracked 2026-07-27.
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Markdown twin
/programs/0603042A.md · MCP mcp.hitchintel.com → budget_get_program_element, budget_get_cong_marksFY2027 Request
$1.2M
▼ 1.1% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$1.2M
▼ 4.3% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$1.3M
Prior year
Anti-Tamper Advanced Tech Development — one RDT&E project inside PE 0603042A. Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, not on a project.
Project DI6 — Anti-Tamper Advanced Tech Development — requests $1.2M in FY2027, 100% of the $1.2M requested for program element 0603042A. Year over year it falls 1.1% against FY2026.
Funding trajectory
Project DI6 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 1.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 1.2 |
| FY2027 | Request | 1.2 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 1.2 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 1.3 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 1.3 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 1.3 |
Inside the project
1 accomplishment / planned program
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.
Anti-Tamper Advanced Tech Development▼ 1%
FY2025 actual$1.3M
FY2026 enacted$1.2M
FY2027 request$1.2M
FY2027 planned work Will continue to mature, optimize and demonstrate Anti-Tamper tools, devices, techniques and technologies under development by the Army or DoW in support of U.S. Army and DoW weapons systems' Program Protection requirements under DoDD 5200-47e and AR 70-77.
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding decrease reflects economic adjustment.
FY2026 plans — current year Will continue to mature, optimize and demonstrate Anti-Tamper tools, devices, techniques and technologies in support of U.S. Army and DoW Program Protection requirements.
FY2025 accomplishments Will mature advanced microelectronics-based anti-tamper security solutions to allow for integration of these solutions in Army and DoD weapons systems to meet their Program Protection requirements.
Project detail
What project DI6 buys
This project matures and demonstrates Anti-Tamper tools, devices, and techniques that protect acquisition program systems and Critical Program Information (CPI) from evolving adversarial reverse engineering threats. These technologies will help adopting Army weapons programs meet their DoDD 5200.47e and AR 70-77 protection requirements. Work in this project complements PE 0602146A (Protective Technologies) / Project AV5 (Protective Technologies). Work in this project is performed by the Aviation and Missile Center (AvMC).
FY2027 Request
$0.0M
▼ 100% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$11.2M
In law
C3I Advanced Technology (CA) — one RDT&E project inside PE 0603042A. Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, not on a project.
Project CU1 — C3I Advanced Technology (CA) — requests — in FY2027, 0.0% of the $1.2M requested for program element 0603042A. Year over year it falls 100% against FY2026.
Funding trajectory
Project CU1 funding, FY2026–FY2026
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
Enacted
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | Enacted | 11.2 |
Project detail
What project CU1 buys
Congressional Interest Item funding provided for Category 3 Subterranean Research Facility Lease.
FY2027 Request
$0.0M
▼ 100% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$7.4M
▼ 5.7% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$7.9M
Prior year
Intelligent Env Battlefield Awareness Adv Tech — one RDT&E project inside PE 0603042A. Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, not on a project.
Project CX7 — Intelligent Env Battlefield Awareness Adv Tech — requests — in FY2027, 0.0% of the $1.2M requested for program element 0603042A. Year over year it falls 100% against FY2026.
Funding trajectory
Project CX7 funding, FY2025–FY2026
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
Actual Enacted
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 7.9 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 7.4 |
Inside the project
5 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.
Predictive Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Mapping (physical) Demonstration▼ 100%
FY2025 actual$2.1M
FY2026 enacted$2.1M
FY2027 request—
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding decrease reflects planned conclusion of the task.
FY2026 plans — current year Will integrate high resolution hydrological models into a global mapping system incorporating previous cold region conditions and soil texture efforts to establish a topologically sound geoinformation system for battlefield understanding.
FY2025 accomplishments Integrated soil models into a global soil mapping system incorporating cold region and hydrology effects using ground and surface water conditions to identify potential hazards of extreme cold weather on maneuverability corridors.
Hydrology Mapping Demonstrations▼ 100%
FY2025 actual$1.4M
FY2026 enacted$1.0M
FY2027 request—
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding decrease reflects planned conclusion of the task.
FY2026 plans — current year Will mature models that describe the seasonality of stream flow, stream flow characteristics, and location of inundated areas.
FY2025 accomplishments Matured the global watershed analog mapping tool to support the hydrologic computational framework including flood zone, soil moisture, and run-off mapping.
Vegetation Property Demonstrations▼ 100%
FY2025 actual$3.0M
FY2026 enacted$2.1M
FY2027 request—
FY2026 to FY2027 change FY 2027 funding decrease due to realignment to PE 0603463A (Network/C3I Technology) / Project AO1 (UNT - Every Receiver is a Sensor Advanced Technology) to consolidate intelligence efforts into one project.
FY2026 plans — current year Will validate global predictions using NATO country datasets to improve vegetation clustering and output predictions.
FY2025 accomplishments Matured the framework for assignment of global forest analogs from U.S. Forest Service plot data. Utilized high performance computing (HPC) resources to validate machine learning algorithms for the forest analog tool.
Extreme Environmental Effects on Operations Demonstrations▼ 100%
FY2025 actual$1.4M
FY2026 enacted$2.1M
FY2027 request—
FY2026 to FY2027 change FY 2027 funding decrease due to realignment to PE 0603463A (Network/C3I Technology) / Project AO1 (UNT - Every Receiver is a Sensor Advanced Technology) to consolidate intelligence efforts into one project.
FY2026 plans — current year Will demonstrate mature algorithms that reduce the error and uncertainty of soil proxy database for landslide hazard analysis with improved data collection and validation.
FY2025 accomplishments Matured algorithms for seasonal snow and wildland fire hazards across complex terrains that capture terrain impediments.
Terrestrial Ice Operations Demonstration▼ 100%
FY2025 actual—
FY2026 enacted$0.3M
FY2027 request—
FY2026 to FY2027 change FY 2027 funding decrease due to realignment to PE 0603463A (Network/C3I Technology) / Project AO1 (UNT - Every Receiver is a Sensor Advanced Technology) to consolidate intelligence efforts into one project.
FY2026 plans — current year Will validate mature algorithms estimating lake ice load capacity with requirements for supporting force and material projection activities.
Project detail
What project CX7 buys
This project optimizes and demonstrates technologies to allow soldiers to maneuver faster around or through existing environmental (urban/industrial) conditions and physical landscape constraints. This effort matures and demonstrates web modules/software tools delivering advanced knowledge of geo-environmental infrastructure to mission planners. This project delivers critical technologies that provide situational awareness for multi-source intelligence, particularly for anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) outside the continental U.S. (OCONUS) sites. Work in this project complements PE 0602182A (C3I Applied Research) / Project CX3 (Intelligent Env Battlefield Awareness Apl Tech). Work in this project is performed by the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center Environmental Laboratory, Geospatial Research Laboratory, Information Technology Laboratory, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Construction Research Engineering Laboratory, and Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory.
FY2027 Request
$0.0M
▼ 100% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$2.6M
▲ 76% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$1.5M
Prior year
Enabling Long Standoff 3D (ELS3D) Adv Tech — one RDT&E project inside PE 0603042A. Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, not on a project.
Project DB5 — Enabling Long Standoff 3D (ELS3D) Adv Tech — requests — in FY2027, 0.0% of the $1.2M requested for program element 0603042A. Year over year it falls 100% against FY2026.
Funding trajectory
Project DB5 funding, FY2025–FY2026
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
Actual Enacted
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 1.5 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 2.6 |
Inside the project
1 accomplishment / planned program
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.
Enabling Long Standoff 3D (ELS3D) Demonstration▼ 100%
FY2025 actual$1.5M
FY2026 enacted$2.6M
FY2027 request—
FY2026 to FY2027 change Decrease is due to realignment to PE 0603463A (Network/C3I Technology) / Project AO1 (UNT- Every Receiver is a Sensor Advanced Technology) to combine intelligence related efforts into one project.
FY2026 plans — current year Will mature sensor design and performance metrics aligned to available hardware and identify needs for further hardware investment.
FY2025 accomplishments Matured a calibration framework with rigorous error propagation, signal processing and image formation software in support of long standoff data collection.
Project detail
What project DB5 buys
This project will integrate and demonstrate and mature a low size, weight, and power (SWAP) laser transmitter, processing algorithms and calibration models tailored for higher resolution 3D data collections over larger areas from longer stand-off for mapping, Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) and targeting. Long standoff airborne collection of high-resolution quick turnaround 3D data is vital for mission planning, target detection and identification, fire control, autonomous navigation, kinetic targeting, and battle damage assessment. Existing light detection and ranging (LIDAR) systems are limited to short standoff and/or near-nadir collection, limiting their use against near-peer adversaries and restricting the provision of 3D data. The payoff will enable long standoff airborne collection of high-resolution quick turnaround 3D data through the development LIDAR subsystems and processing algorithms. Work in this project complements PE 0602182A (C3I Applied Research) / Project DB4 (Enabling Long Standoff 3D (ELS3D) Tech). Work in this project is performed by the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center Geospatial Research Laboratory.
FY2027 Request
$0.0M
▼ 100% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$2.0M
▼ 36% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$3.1M
Prior year
Persistent Geophysical Sensing-Infrasound Adv Tech — one RDT&E project inside PE 0603042A. Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, not on a project.
Project CX8 — Persistent Geophysical Sensing-Infrasound Adv Tech — requests — in FY2027, 0.0% of the $1.2M requested for program element 0603042A. Year over year it falls 100% against FY2026.
Funding trajectory
Project CX8 funding, FY2025–FY2026
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
Actual Enacted
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 3.1 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 2.0 |
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.
Battlefield Intelligence by Geophysical Sensing (BIGS) Demonstration
FY2025 actual$3.1M
FY2026 enacted—
FY2027 request—
FY2025 accomplishments Demonstrated a full complement of automated algorithms for selected sources of interest with optimized array configurations and placement tools in a relevant environment (accounting for terrain/topography and meteorological effects).
Adaptable Wide Area Reconnaissance (AWARe) Demonstrations▼ 100%
FY2025 actual—
FY2026 enacted$2.0M
FY2027 request—
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding realigned to PE 0603119A (Ground Advanced Technology), Project CV5 (Engineer Enablers for Contested Maneuver, Logistics, Sustainment) to consolidate engineering functions into a project.
FY2026 plans — current year Will demonstrate hardware supporting computing at the tactical edge to detect and localize threats of interest. Will evaluate a tactical array optimization tool.
Project detail
What project CX8 buys
This project matures and demonstrates kitted hardware and software solutions that provide passive, persistent, non-line-of-sight, multi-modal sensing capable of providing fused battlefield intelligence for increased situational awareness in a dynamic operational environment. These technologies provide near-real-time data collection, processing, and alerting on evolving cross-domain threats including strategic and tactical fires, air and ground platforms, as well as critical transportation infrastructure (bridges) and explosive events with applications for deep sensing. These technologies deliver time-critical intelligence for engineer and intelligence communities to provide decisive advantage. Work in this project complements PE 0602182A (C3I Applied Research) / Project CX4 (Persistent Geophysical Sensing-Infrasound Apl Tech). Work in this project is performed at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Environmental Laboratory, and Information Technology Laboratory.
FY2027 Request
$0.0M
▼ 100% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$1.8M
▲ 30% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$1.4M
Prior year
Subterranean Detection and Monitoring Adv Tech — one RDT&E project inside PE 0603042A. Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, not on a project.
Project CZ5 — Subterranean Detection and Monitoring Adv Tech — requests — in FY2027, 0.0% of the $1.2M requested for program element 0603042A. Year over year it falls 100% against FY2026.
Funding trajectory
Project CZ5 funding, FY2025–FY2026
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
Actual Enacted
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 1.4 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 1.8 |
Inside the project
1 accomplishment / planned program
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.
Cavity Assessment in Variable Environments-Subterranean (CAVES) Demonstrations▼ 100%
FY2025 actual$1.4M
FY2026 enacted$1.8M
FY2027 request—
FY2026 to FY2027 change Decrease is due to realignment of effort to PE 0603119A (Ground Advanced Technology) / Project BL6 (Expedient Passive Protection Advanced Technology) to combine passive protection capabilities into one project.
FY2026 plans — current year Will optimize tunnel detection and perimeter security technologies through component level demonstrations of geophysical sensing technologies conducted in an operationally relevant environment.
FY2025 accomplishments Matured and demonstrated systems in a simulated operational environment using selected technologies.
Project detail
What project CZ5 buys
This project validates and demonstrates advanced subterranean monitoring and vulnerability assessment technologies providing mobile and man-portable solutions to enhance survivability and threat awareness during urban operations and negate enemy subterranean operation advantage. This project also optimizes and demonstrates enhanced technologies to detect tunnels and tunneling activity in complex and varied environments. These capabilities are critical to provide greater situational awareness of the subterranean domain and enhanced survivability for the soldier. Work in this project complements PE 0602182A (C3I Applied Research) / Project CX6 (Subterranean Detection and Monitoring Apl Tech). Work in this project is performed by the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory and Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory.