# Advanced Non-Kinetic Evaluation for Re-engagement (ANKER)

**R-2A activity** of project 1164 — Surface Warfare (SW)  
**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/1164/a4  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603673N/1164

## Summary

This activity requests $12.1M in FY2027, 13% of project 1164, up 12% on FY2026. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2026–FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2027 planned work.** Advanced Non-Kinetic Evaluation for Re-engagement (ANKER) - Complete model-based systems engineering design and operator workflows for integration into existing systems to provide naval capabilities for real-time non-kinetic effectiveness feedback with industry and government performers. - Complete development of software products to enhance non-kinetic effectiveness employment and feedback through algorithm research, data collection, model development, and metrics definition. - Complete comparative algorithm characterization in modeling and simulation environment - Complete FNC transition (Software and Knowledge products) to the Integrated Combat System (ICS) Program of Record. - Initiate a final Demonstration At-Sea (or LVC if fleet assets cannot support)

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** The increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is primarily due to the cost of conducting a final Demonstration At-Sea.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** Advanced Non-Kinetic Evaluation for Re-engagement (ANKER) - Continue the ANKER FNC by completing the Concept of Operation and implementation studies with stakeholder organizations so as to guide the development, integration, test and transition of algorithms and capabilities for non-kinetic effectiveness. - Continue model-based systems engineering design and operator workflows for integration into existing systems to provide naval capabilities for real-time non-kinetic effectiveness feedback with industry and government performers. - Continue development of software products to enhance non-kinetic effectiveness employment and feedback through algorithm research, data collection, model development, and metrics definition. - Continue comparative algorithm characterization in modeling and simulation environment to study impacts on non-kinetics feedback functionality in identified naval systems. - Conduct experimentation in LVC environment.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 10.8 |
| FY2027 | Request | 12.1 |

> 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 1164

- [Sensor and Missile Management Against Robust Threats (SMMART)](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603673N/1164/a6) — FY2027 16.0
- [Joint Beam Control System (JBCS)](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603673N/1164/a8) — FY2027 15.0
- [Subarray Transmit Orthogonality for Receive Multiplexing (STORM)](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603673N/1164/a10) — FY2027 10.0
- Afloat Data Analysis and Persistent Transmission (ADAPT) — FY2027 9.0
- Joint Highly intelligent Automation to Accelerate Weapon Kills (J-HAAWK) — FY2027 6.9
- Light Rider — FY2027 6.1
- Leaker Engagement with Autonomous Defenses at Extended Ranges (LEADER) — FY2027 6.0
- Progressive, Assisted Decision-Making, Re-Planning and Execution for UxS (PADRE) — FY2027 5.0
- SPEIR-HELIOS Improvements Merging Environmental Response (SHIMMER) — FY2027 3.2
- Radar Advanced Signal Processing (RASP) — FY2027 2.8
- Surface Warfare — FY2027 0.0
- Odysseus — FY2027 0.0
- Crossbow — FY2027 0.0
- Multi-Spectral High Resolution Targeting Sensor (MUST HITS) — FY2027 0.0

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Navy RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0603673N project 1164 (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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