What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 63665A of PE 0603203F. This is the budget justification's own description of work that has not happened yet — the one thing no other level of the budget carries.
- 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 against a dynamic adversarial kill web. - Continue assessing operational and program office requirements to determine multi-spectral shortfalls and applicable modeling, simulation, and assessment needs. - Continue conducting both field technology demonstrations and continuous integration events, and analysis from the demonstrations to support transition into Air Force platforms and electromagnetic spectrum operations units. - Continue threat characterization, countermeasures development, and field testing of defeat techniques against new advanced threats. - Continue development of mission positioning, navigation, and timing technologies, by opening up interfaces to include new alternative positioning, navigation, and timing capabilities including transcoding of Global Positioning System military receivers. - Complete initial implementations of positioning, navigation, and timing plugins for programs of records, showing that these technologies can provide alternative navigation solutions by providing a mosaic of capabilities that when blended together can match current satellite navigation solutions. - Complete development of technologies to establish and maintain resilient and robust positioning, navigation, and timing capabilities for airborne platforms in contested environments, in particular over vast spans of water. - Commence maturing effort to develop and assess multi-spectral electromagnetic support and attack concepts and technologies against emerging threats leveraging successful results from applied research efforts. - Commence integrated/networked multi-platform reference architecture implementations and open architecture standards to support enhanced modeling, simulation, and assessment.
FY 2027 decreased compared to FY 2026 by $0.386 million due to programmatic adjustments to the DAF Science and Technology portfolio. This reduction reflects a strategic realignment to optimize core research areas and improve resource efficiency
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
- Complete multi-spectral development within Reference Architecture Implementations and open architectures standards to support enhanced modeling, simulation and assessment. - Complete development of advanced networking, processing, advanced computing paradigms, and cybersecurity technologies for next-generation avionics mission system capabilities. - Continue maturing effort to develop and assess multi-spectral electromagnetic support and attack concepts and technologies against emerging threats, leveraging successful completion of Radio Frequency Electronic Warfare Demonstrator effort; Develop a ‘pipeline' to leverage modern industry software practices to rapidly transition electronic warfare algorithms (The EW Pipeline). - Continue assessing operational and program office requirements to determine multi-spectral shortfalls and determine applicable modeling & simulation to evaluate shortfalls and potential technologies to address these shortfalls. - Continue conducting both field technology demonstrations and continuous integration events, and analysis from the demonstrations to support transition into Air Force platforms and electromagnetic spectrum operations units. - Continue threat characterization, countermeasures development, and field testing of laser jam codes and techniques against new advanced threats. - Continue effectiveness assessment of laser and missile warning technologies and techniques for a variety of Air Force platforms. - Continue utilizing agile development processes and digital engineering techniques to further accelerate development, integration, and demonstrations to rapidly respond to new and unexpected complex emitters in realistic electromagnetic operating environments. - Continue development of technologies to establish and maintain resilient and robust positioning, navigation, and timing capabilities for airborne platforms in various environments, including over vast spans of water. - Continue to integrate these technologies into the reference implementations aligned with the resilient embedded global positioning system-inertial and positioning, navigation and timing software defined user equipment programs of record. - Continue developing, demonstrating, and promulgating navigational open architecture standards to permit integration of alternative position, navigation and timing approaches into future Department of Defense systems. - Commence development and maturation of cognitive electromagnetic warfare technologies to provide enhanced survivability within a complex electromagnetic operating environment; prototype advanced data analytics capabilities to assist human operators with planning, re-tasking, and assessing non-kinetic effects against a highly dynamic adversary kill web.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 33.1 |
| FY2027 | Request | 32.7 |
This activity is 49% of project 63665A's FY2027 request and 45% of PE 0603203F's. In the request year the activities under a project sum to it exactly; in the current year they under-cover it in about 9% of cases, so an activity's delta can legitimately exceed its parent's and the two must not be compared row to row.
5 activities in project 63665A
Every R-2A line of this project, largest FY2027 request first. Linked where the activity has enough of its own narrative to carry a page; the rest are shown in full on the project page.