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.
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.
| 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 |
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 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 →- 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 →- 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 →FY2027 planned work Not Applicable
FY2026 to FY2027 change Not Applicable
FY2026 plans — current year In FY 2026 the funding and technical activities from this effort were realigned to Program Element 0603203F, Advanced Aerospace Sensors, Project 63665A, Advanced Aerospace Sensors Technology, ISR and Targeting of Surface Threats effort.
FY2027 planned work Not Applicable
FY2026 to FY2027 change Not Applicable
FY2026 plans — current year In FY 2026 the funding and technical activities from this effort were realigned to Program Element 0603203F, Advanced Aerospace Sensors, Project 63665A, Advanced Aerospace Sensors Technology, ISR and Targeting of Airborne Threats Effort.