# Human Effectiveness Advanced Technology Development — Program Element 0603456F

**Program element:** 0603456F  
**Component:** U.S. Air Force  
**Appropriation:** 3600 — RDT&E, Air Force  
**Budget Activity:** 3 — Advanced Technology Development  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603456F

## Summary

U.S. Air Force requests $20.3M in FY2027, sustained across the five-year plan. In the FY2027 defense authorization, the House funded it in full; the Senate funded it in full; House appropriators added 54% (to $31.3M).

## Funding profile

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 13.5 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 19.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 20.3 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 17.8 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 21.4 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 21.8 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 22.3 |

> Estimate types are not summed — the profile mixes actuals, enacted law, the request, and outyear projections.

## Congressional marks (FY2027)

| Stage | Marked ($M) | Change ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| Request | 20.3 | — |
| House NDAA (HASC) | 20.3 | +0.0 |
| Senate NDAA (SASC) | 20.3 | +0.0 |
| House Approps (HAC-D) | 31.3 | +11.0 |

> FY2027 NDAA authorization marks, as of 2026-07-27. Not appropriations or final law.

## Projects (4)

| Project | Title | FY2025 actual | FY2026 enacted | FY2027 request | Move |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 635323 | Human Effectiveness Technology Demonstrations | 5.9 | 4.9 | 20.3 | +315% |
| 635324 | Biosciences Performance Demonstration | 2.8 | 4.2 | 0.0 | −100% |
| 635325 | Mission Effective Performance | 3.6 | 6.1 | 0.0 | −100% |
| 635327 | Warfighter Interfaces | 1.3 | 4.4 | 0.0 | −100% |

> Projects are the summable leaves: the program element total is their sum, never added to it.

### Project 635323 — Human Effectiveness Technology Demonstrations

This Project develops, demonstrates, and transitions Human Effectiveness technologies required for Department of the Air Force (DAF) warfighters to win future wars through enabling, augmenting and protecting warfighter performance. This project demonstrates technologies to predict, evaluate, and mitigate the effects of novel weapon systems on personnel and mission performance, and exploits the offensive capabilities of directed energy systems, developing modeling and simulation tools to unite bioeffects and human performance models from across the Department of the Air Force (DAF) in support of Digital Transformation initiatives. In addition, this Project develops, demonstrates, and prepares for transition technologies that provide Airman-integrated capabilities to sustain, enhance, and augment airmen physical and cognitive performance under challenging and adverse operational and training mission environments; maturing technologies to provide commanders real time status monitoring and assessment of individual's mission ready status and intervention protocols to accelerate restoral to combat readiness. Further, this Project develops, demonstrates, and transitions advanced training, simulation, mission rehearsal, and other performance-aiding methods and technologies to enhance warfighter readiness focusing on integrated high-fidelity weapon systems training technologies; tailored immersive simulation environments for airmen at the tactical and operational levels; and incorporation of performance assessment and feedback tools. Finally, this Project develops, demonstrates, and readies the transition of technologies to revolutionize the way airmen optimize multi-Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, Battle Management Command and Control, Command, Control, Communications and Battle Management, and intel analysis capabilities of DAF systems, including autonomous machines, and adaptive teams of Airmen and machines.

| Activity (R-2A) | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Directed Energy Bioeffects | 5.9 | 4.9 | 4.9 |
| Biotechnology for Performance Research and Demonstration | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.3 |
| Readiness Technology Development | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4.2 |
| Airman Machine Interfaces | 0.0 | 0.0 | 8.9 |

> R-2A activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan. Coverage is partial, so count them, never total them.

### Project 635324 — Biosciences Performance Demonstration

Project objectives are to develop, demonstrate, and transition products that provide Airman and Guardian-integrated capabilities to sustain, enhance, and augment airmen physical and cognitive performance under challenging and adverse operational and training mission environments. Integrate technical advances in molecular and synthetic biology, multi-omics, cognitive performance optimization, brain-machine interface, and application of non-invasive physiological and cognitive performance monitoring devices. Develop solutions to sense, assess, and mitigate impacts to airmen performance degradation including, but not limited to, unexplained physiological events, fatigue, injury, stressors (i.e. environmental, occupational, personal), and cognitive overload. Develop and demonstrate technologies to enhance and accelerate individual physical and cognitive ability to rapidly learn and acquire new mission skills and maintain proficiency of acquired skills. Mature technologies to provide commanders real time status monitoring and assessment of individual's mission ready status and intervention protocols to accelerate restoral to combat readiness.

| Activity (R-2A) | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biotechnology for Performance Research and Demonstration | 2.8 | 4.2 | 0.0 |

> R-2A activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan. Coverage is partial, so count them, never total them.

### Project 635325 — Mission Effective Performance

This project develops, demonstrates, and transitions advanced training, simulation, mission rehearsal, and other performance-aiding methods and technologies to enhance warfighter readiness. This project also develops advanced methods and technologies to enable interactive Live-Virtual-Constructive blended environments for performance-aiding methods and technologies. Focus areas include integrated high-fidelity weapon systems training technologies for air, space, and cyber missions; tailored immersive simulation environments for airmen at the tactical and operational levels; and incorporation of performance assessment and feedback tools. These methods and technologies facilitate the development of mission-essential competencies across the broad range of Air Force mission areas. Technology areas are focused on the Combat Air Force (CAF) with major benefits to Joint and coalition partner training needs.

| Activity (R-2A) | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Readiness Technology Development | 3.6 | 6.1 | 0.0 |

> R-2A activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan. Coverage is partial, so count them, never total them.

### Project 635327 — Warfighter Interfaces

This Project develops, demonstrates, and readies the transition of technologies to revolutionize the way airmen optimize multi-Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (multi-UAV), Battle Management Command and Control (BMC2), Command, Control, Communications and Battle Management (C3BM), and intel analysis capabilities of DAF systems, including autonomous machines, and adaptive teams of Airmen, Guardians and machines. Improvements in the presentation of operational information to warfighters, from the system operator to the commander, must be developed in step with advancements in the acquisition, storage, and retrieval of information. This project provides the advances in understanding of human cognitive abilities, as well as the utilization of human interfaces, multisensory fusion, high-resolution image displays, and three-dimensional audio to customize communications, enhance shared understanding, and provide maximum situational awareness across a diverse user community simultaneously executing air, space, and cyber missions from geographically separate command, control, and battle management locations.

| Activity (R-2A) | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Airman Machine Interfaces | 1.3 | 4.4 | 0.0 |

> R-2A activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan. Coverage is partial, so count them, never total them.

## Mission & acquisition strategy

This program develops, demonstrates, and transitions technologies to enhance Department of the Air Force (DAF) warfighter performance and effectiveness through breakthrough advances in warfighter training, warfighter system interfaces, directed energy bioeffects, deployment and sustainment of warfighters in extreme environments, and understanding and shaping adversarial behavior. This program develops, demonstrates, and transitions technologies to predict, evaluate, and mitigate the effects of directed energy on personnel and mission performance, and exploits the offensive capabilities of directed energy systems.

## Related program elements

- [0602202F — Human Effectiveness Applied Research](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602202F) (Air Force)
- [0604055D8Z — Operational Energy Capability Improvement (OECI)](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604055D8Z) (Defense-Wide)
- [0602785A — Manpower/Personnel/Training Technology](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602785A) (Army)
- [0603007A — Manpower, Personnel and Training Advanced Technology](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603007A) (Army)

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-3, PE 0603456F (PB PB2027); FY2027 NDAA committee marks (as of 2026-07-27).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0603456F")`.

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