What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project BG1 of PE 0603462A. 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.
Will mature and demonstrate day/night electro-optic infrared (EO/IR) aided target detection and recognition (AITDR) threat detection capabilities using imagery collected in both temperate and sub-tropical environments, supporting expanded maneuver of ground platforms against remotely deployed mines; will demonstrate integrated air/ground sensor payloads and processing approaches to detect and geo-locate explosive hazards and obstacles supporting autonomous breaching and expanded maneuver. Demonstrate integration of uncooled long-wavelength infrared (LWIR) thermal sensors with time-correlated algorithms for image stabilization and image smear correction to improve target search performance while on the move for advanced long range, day and night target acquisition; will optimize image processing techniques to exploit advancements in higher speed, smaller pixel pitch uncooled thermal sensors to improve targeting performance; will mature an event based imaging short-wavelength infrared (SWIR) detection sensor system to provide a layered defense approach that integrates wide area surveillance with rapid threat detection and tracking of UAS
This is not a new start effort. FY 2027 funding increase reflects the consolidation of other ongoing efforts within this project from Advanced Sensors with Embedded Processing and Multi-Mission Payloads. Funding increases reflects additional research to continue the maturation of advanced processing and sensing capabilities to detect explosive hazards and planned initial integration and demonstration of automated driving aids.
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) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2027 | Request | 12.7 |
This activity is 92% of project BG1's FY2027 request and 11% of PE 0603462A'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.
4 activities in project BG1
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.