What project AM9 buys
This project matures and demonstrates technologies and components to increase resiliency of Wideband Satellite Communications (SATCOM) in contested and congested electromagnetic environments. This project improves resiliency through science & technology investigation. This project complements technologies that provide obfuscation of radio frequency (RF) spectrum signature in order to counter enemy electronic surveillance capabilities. Work in this project complements Program Element (PE) 0602146A (Network C3I Technology) / Projects AM8 (Protected SATCOM Technology). Work in this project is performed by the Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center.
Project AM9 funding, FY2025–FY2026
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 | 5.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 10.6 |
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. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding decrease reflects the strategic reallocation of resources to support evolving priorities and objectives.
FY2026 plans — current year Will improve and demonstrate digital management and control technology in order to optimize performance and form factor to enable integration into a tactical environment mature performance to support operation over multiple military and commercial satellite constellations, providing resilient operation in a hybrid SATCOM architecture; develop additional resiliency and redundancy by leveraging multiple simultaneous military and commercial satellite constellations; investigate further virtualization of waveforms leveraging emerging technologies such as Digital Intermediate Frequency Interoperability (DIFI).
FY2025 accomplishments Will mature, optimize, and demonstrate select SATCOM technologies that contribute to SATCOM resiliency; will mature and demonstrate OTM satellite ground terminal technology that supports operation over multiple satellite constellations at multiple frequency bands.