# Leprecaun Trap

**R-2A activity** of project 1163 — Information Warfare (IW)  
**Program element:** 0603673N — Future Naval Capabilities Advanced Tech Dev  
**Component:** U.S. Navy · **Budget Activity:** 3  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603673N/1163/a12  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603673N/1163

> **NEW START.** $11.0M requested in FY2027 with no prior-year and no current-year funding.

## Summary

This activity requests $11.0M in FY2027, 13% of project 1163 — a new start with no prior-year and no current-year money. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2027 planned work.** Leprecaun Trap - Initiate data collection and Modeling and Simulation environment for collaborative technique development across a multidisciplinary team of industry and government performers. - Initiate development of assured cyber capabilities with signal processing algorithm research, environmental characterization, and metrics identification. - Initiate hardware, software, and communications architecture design and development. - Initiate Concepts of Operation and Employment in conjunction with stakeholders. - Initiate planning for spiral testing of integrated hardware and software products.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** The increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to the selection of this FNC to initiate in FY 2027 due to promising technology maturation from applied research investments previously made in BA 02 in 0602750N. This is not a new start.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 11.0 |

> Prior, current and budget year only — an R-2A activity carries no five-year plan. It sums exactly into its project in the request year and not necessarily in any other.

## Other activities in project 1163

- Persistent Menace — FY2027 9.5
- RED ZONE — FY2027 9.4
- Matador — FY2027 8.8
- Advanced 5G Security and Controlled Emission for the Naval Domain (ASCEND) — FY2027 8.0
- Spectrum Operations Coordinator for Combat System Electromagnetic Radiation (SOCCER) — FY2027 7.5
- Dark Roast — FY2027 7.2
- Intra-Theater Distribution (ITD) — FY2027 6.8
- Multi-objective Automated Routing for Ships ALgorithm (MARSHAL) — FY2027 5.2
- Measurement-Based Adaptive Response (M-BAR) — FY2027 5.0
- Environmental Satellite Characterization and Algorithm Processor Enhancements (ESCAPE) — FY2027 3.3
- GRAVITAS — FY2027 3.2
- Information Warfare — FY2027 0.0
- 4 Leaf Clovers — FY2027 0.0
- Federated Learning and Optimization for Wireless networks (FLOW) — FY2027 0.0

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Navy RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0603673N project 1163 (PB PB2027). Narrative is the government's own text.
- **No marks, no contractors at this grain** — congressional marks land on the program element and R-3 performers on the project.
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_activity`.

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