Project 63665A
$66.9MFY2027 request ▲ 7%Sensing and Spectrum Warfare Technology
FY2025 actual$28.9M
FY2026 enacted$62.3M
FY2027 request$66.9M
FY2027 Request
$72.1M
▲ 4.4% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$69.1M
▲ 97% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$35.1M
Prior year
Roll-up of 2 projects. Projects are the summable leaves — the PE total is their sum, never added to it.
For fiscal year 2027, the U.S. Air Force is requesting $72.1M for Advanced Aerospace Sensors under RDT&E program element 0603203F, up 4.4% over FY2026.
Funding trajectory
Funding profile, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 35.1 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 69.1 |
| FY2027 | Request | 72.1 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 73.2 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 86.8 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 88.6 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 90.4 |
Where it sits
Acquisition lifecycle
This program is funded in RDT&E Budget Activity 3 — Advanced Technology Development.
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Research
BA 1–2
Current
Advanced Technology
BA 3
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Prototyping
BA 4
Later
Development & Fielding
BA 5–7
Inside the program element
2 projects roll up into PE 0603203F
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 4% overall, which can hide much larger swings below.
Project 6369DF
$5.3MFY2027 request ▼ 21%AI-Enabled Multi-Domain Autonomous Combat Systems
FY2025 actual$6.2M
FY2026 enacted$6.7M
FY2027 request$5.3M
Congressional action
Congressional marks
Committee marks on the FY2027 request. Adds and cuts are reconciled in conference before they become law.
RequestPresident's Budget
$72.1M
House NDAA (HASC)HASC
$72.1M full · +$0
Senate NDAA (SASC)SASC
$75.1M +$3.0M · +4.2%
House Approps (HAC-D)HAC_D
$85.1M +$13.0M · +18%
▲ $13.0M 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 program develops and demonstrates technologies for electro-optical sensors, multifunction radio frequency sensors, precision navigation and timing, and electronic countermeasures, as well as associated technologies, critical components and algorithms to support Department of the Air Force surveillance, targeting, and electronic combat warfighting capabilities. The program develops and demonstrates technologies for integrating sensors, precision timing and navigation, and electronic combat sensors and systems into a fused and seamless technology capability to demonstrate capabilities for rapid fielding.
Project 63665A, 6369DF — Sensing and Spectrum Warfare Technology
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FY2027 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification · Exhibits R-2 / R-3 · PE 0603203F (President's Budget PB2027) — and FY2027 NDAA committee marks, as tracked 2026-07-27.
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/programs/0603203F.md · MCP mcp.hitchintel.com → budget_get_program_element, budget_get_cong_marksFY2027 Request
$66.9M
▲ 7.2% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$62.3M
▲ 116% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$28.9M
Prior year
Sensing and Spectrum Warfare Technology — one RDT&E project inside PE 0603203F. Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, not on a project.
Project 63665A — Sensing and Spectrum Warfare Technology — requests $66.9M in FY2027, 93% of the $72.1M requested for program element 0603203F. Year over year it grows 7.2% against FY2026.
Funding trajectory
Project 63665A funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 28.9 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 62.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 66.9 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 67.0 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 79.6 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 81.3 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 83.1 |
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. Opening lines only here — the full year-by-year narrative is on the project page.
Multi-Spectrum Sensing Demonstration
FY2025 actual$10.2M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Not Applicable
FY2025 actual$10.0M
FY2026 enacted$24.3M
FY2027 request$23.6M
- Continue assessment and selection of surface sensing and sense-making capabilities of multi-modal surface target classification as appropriate; expand database of operationally relevant signatures, warfighter input, and previously acquired knowledge to select sensing phenomenology most capable of yielding novel capabilities. - Continue…
Read the FY2027 plan →Integrated Sensing Demonstration
FY2025 actual$8.7M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Not Applicable
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$4.9M
FY2027 request$10.5M
- Continue development of modes to be used on open architecture digital radio frequency arrays for future Air Force systems. - Continue work on a synthetic test environment (hardware in the loop/software in the loop) for evaluating digital radio frequency modes virtually without the need to conduct expensive flight testing. - Continue…
Read the FY2027 plan →FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$33.1M
FY2027 request$32.7M
- Continue development, maturation, and initial hardware in the loop assessment of cognitive electromagnetic warfare technologies to provide enhanced survivability within complex electromagnetic environment; prototype advanced data analytics capabilities to assist operators with planning, re-tasking, and assessing non-kinetic effects…
Read the FY2027 plan →Project detail
What project 63665A buys
This project develops and demonstrates aerospace sensor and processing technologies, electronic warfare equipment, and precision navigation and timing systems for intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, target, and attack radar applications in both crewed and uncrewed platforms, including electro-optical sensors and electronic counter-countermeasures for radars. It provides aerospace platforms with the capability to precisely detect, track, and target both airborne (conventional and low radar cross-section) and ground-based, high-value, time-critical targets in adverse clutter and jamming environments. Project activities include developing multi-function and multi-domain radio frequency and electro-optical systems including radar and electronic warfare technology and the position and timing information to enable distributed sensing. Desired warfighting capabilities include the ability to detect concealed targets in difficult background conditions.
FY2027 Request
$5.3M
▼ 21% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$6.7M
▲ 9.4% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$6.2M
Prior year
AI-Enabled Multi-Domain Autonomous Combat Systems — one RDT&E project inside PE 0603203F. Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, not on a project.
Project 6369DF — AI-Enabled Multi-Domain Autonomous Combat Systems — requests $5.3M in FY2027, 7.3% of the $72.1M requested for program element 0603203F. Year over year it falls 22% against FY2026.
Funding trajectory
Project 6369DF funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 6.2 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 6.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 5.3 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 6.2 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 7.1 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 7.3 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 7.3 |
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.
Autonomous Capability for Air Defense▼ 21%
FY2025 actual$6.2M
FY2026 enacted$6.7M
FY2027 request$5.3M
FY2027 planned work - Continue to advance autonomous air combat operations capabilities, focusing on the maturation of artificial intelligence-driven tactical autopilots and multi-platform resource managers through increasingly complex live and virtual flight test scenarios. - Continue the development of multi-platform sense-making and predictive analytics, focusing on the integration of on-board fusion algorithms to enable dynamic orchestration of manned and unmanned platforms against time-sensitive targets. - Continue to mature advanced artificial intelligence tools for enhanced decision support, focusing on the operational implementation of large language models and retrieval-augmented generative models for…
FY2026 to FY2027 change FY 2027 decreased compared to FY 2026 by $1.451 million due to programmatic adjustments to the DAF Science and Technology portfolio. This decrease reflects a strategic realignment to optimize core research areas and improve resource efficiency.
FY2026 plans — current year - Continue demonstration of edge sensing assets cued via centralized intelligence data on air threats to support evaluation of performance via life flight tests. - Continue both evaluation and advancement of solution options for on board fusion and predictive analytics to inform orchestration of attritable platforms into areas of interest. - Continue testing and evaluation of multi-platform resource managers to position assets for optimal sensing geometries. - Continue development of advanced autonomy algorithms using modern machine learning tools that control the aircraft, sensors, and weapons onboard manned and/or unmanned aircraft and perform operationally relevant combat tactics…
Project detail
What project 6369DF buys
This project area develops and demonstrates advanced technologies for closed-loop, multi-domain, multi-intelligence sources, multi-platform, multi-sensor automation and autonomy, providing capabilities in battle management, fire control, battlespace awareness and visualization, predictive analytics, target recognition, sensor and information fusion, and sensor / platform asset tasking. This project also conducts advanced investigations to determine solution credibility, in terms of underlying technology and in terms of consistency with future Department of the Air Force missions within highly contested environments. This project includes robust techniques to support intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance and targeting missions within adverse weather conditions and against adversaries employing deceptive techniques. This project includes development of software-intensive solutions suitable for cloud-based integration and for development/operations-like operational environments. This project develops technology for effective management of online and offline information sources incorporating both constrained and cooperative sensing. This project has been realigned to better reflect technical areas being emphasized such as autonomy, multi-domain and multi-sensor information processing, leverage of machine learning developments and enterprise-level modeling, simulation, and analysis.