What project 328 buys
The Assured Technical Overmatch project funds comparative assessments that integrate Intelligence Community (IC) insights and independent technical analysis to shape the development of innovative capabilities and address emerging threats from a diverse range of state and non-state actors as outlined in the National Defense Strategy (NDS) and as reported through the IC. Engineering and technology analysis is performed by Federally Funded Research and Development Centers, University Affiliated Research Centers, industry, and academia partners focused on analysis of critical Department of War (DoW) scientific and technical investments and breakthroughs by U.S. strategic competitors. These assessments compare global science, technology, research and development efforts, and current state-of-the-science, and identify technology development strategies. Main lines of effort include: - Technology Overmatch products leverage OUSW(R&E) subject matter expertise with Federally Funded Research and Development Center and University Affiliated Research Center expertise to identify potential future military capability gaps and propose technological solutions for OUSW(R&E) and broader Department consideration. These efforts are conducted in overlapping six-month sprints and are informed by intelligence reporting, operational plans, service requirements, and Department-funded R&D as well as commercial and academic research activities. Results are consolidated in a graphical overview of the problem and potential solutions, along with white papers outlining details for proposed solutions to help assure technology overmatch.Competitive Landscape Assessments that characterize the technical state-of-the-art, measure relative national standing, and identify and assess the applications of emerging technologies to strategically important military capabilities to inform OUSW(R&E technology development and investment decisions. - Quantitative, engineering-level analyses of novel technologies and concepts that identify potential areas of future technology overmatch. - Independent assessments of critical technology research and development efforts that compare U.S. and competitor nations. Operational and technical assessments identify prioritized operational issues and associated technology focus areas through comprehensive kill chain analysis across all domains through the year 2040.
Project 328 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 | 18.9 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 33.1 |
| FY2027 | Request | 28.3 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 38.0 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 43.2 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 48.7 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 53.7 |
1 accomplishment / planned program
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. Each describes FY2027 work in enough detail to have its own page; the rest are shown here in full. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
Engineering and Technology Analysis: - Continue to conduct engineering- and physics-based threat assessments informed by IC reporting to identify gaps in U.S. capabilities. - Continue to conduct analysis of novel technology and concepts to address capability gaps and potential counters to emerging technologies in future operating…
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