# Sensor Technology — Program Element 0603767E

**Program element:** 0603767E  
**Component:** Defense-Wide  
**Appropriation:** 0400 — RDT&E, Defense-Wide  
**Budget Activity:** 3 — Advanced Technology Development  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603767E

## Summary

Defense-Wide requests $0.0M in FY2027.

## Funding profile

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 259.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 0.0 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 0.0 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 0.0 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 0.0 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 0.0 |

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

## Projects (3)

| Project | Title | FY2025 actual | FY2026 enacted | FY2027 request | Move |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SEN-01 | SURVEILLANCE AND COUNTERMEASURES TECHNOLOGY | 37.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — |
| SEN-02 | SENSORS AND PROCESSING SYSTEMS | 73.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — |
| SEN-06 | SENSOR TECHNOLOGY | 149.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — |

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

### Project SEN-01 — SURVEILLANCE AND COUNTERMEASURES TECHNOLOGY

The Surveillance and Countermeasures Technology project funds sensor efforts that will improve the accuracy and timeliness of our surveillance and targeting systems for improved battlefield awareness, strike capability, and battle damage assessment. Timely surveillance of enemy territory under all weather conditions is critical to providing our forces with the tactical information needed to succeed in future wars. This operational surveillance capability must continue to perform during enemy efforts to deny and deceive the sensor systems, and operate, at times, in a clandestine manner. This project will exploit recent advances in multispectral target phenomenology, signal processing, low-power high-performance computing, and low-cost microelectronics to develop advanced surveillance and targeting systems. In addition, this project encompasses several advanced technologies related to the development of techniques to counter advanced battlefield threats. Beginning in FY 2026, efforts in this Project will be funded in PE 0603467E, Project DAT-02.

| Activity (R-2A) | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dynamic Optimization for Defense of Ground bases with Electromagnetic warfare (DODGEball) | 25.2 | — | — |
| Ouija | 11.8 | — | — |

> 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 SEN-02 — SENSORS AND PROCESSING SYSTEMS

The Sensors and Processing Systems project develops and demonstrates the advanced sensor and processing technologies and systems necessary for Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) missions. Future battlefields will continue to be populated with targets that use mobility and concealment as key survival tactics, and high-value targets will range from specific individual insurgents and vehicles to groups of individuals and large platforms such as mobile missile launchers and artillery. The Sensors and Processing Systems project is primarily driven by four needs: (a) providing day-night ISR capabilities against the entire range of potential targets; (b) countering camouflage, concealment, and deception of mobile ground targets; (c) detecting and identifying objects of interest/targets across wide geographic areas in near-real-time; and (d) enabling reliable identification, precision fire control tracking, timely engagement, and accurate battle damage assessment of ground targets. The Sensors and Processing Systems project develops and demonstrates technologies and system concepts that combine novel approaches to sensing with emerging sensor technologies and advanced sensor and image processing algorithms, software, and hardware to enable comprehensive knowledge of the battlespace and detection, identification, tracking, engagement, and battle damage assessment for high-value targets in all weather conditions and combat environments. Beginning in FY 2026, efforts in this Project will be funded in PE 0603467E, Project DAT-02.

| Activity (R-2A) | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cancun | 24.3 | — | — |
| Large Area Photocathode (LAP) | 19.7 | — | — |
| Track at Big Distances with Track-Before-Detect (TBD2) | 4.5 | — | — |
| X-Ray Extreme-range Non-imaging Analysis (XENA) | 10.3 | — | — |
| Distributed Radar Image Formation Technology (DRIFT) | 8.7 | — | — |
| Painter | 5.5 | — | — |

> 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 SEN-06 — SENSOR TECHNOLOGY

This project funds classified DARPA programs that are reported in accordance with the SAP Annual Report to Congress. Beginning in FY 2026, efforts in this Project will be funded in PE 0603467E, Project DAT-06.

## Mission & acquisition strategy

The efforts described in this Program Element (PE) address the Advanced Technology Development associated with the Sensor Technology Program focused on sensor efforts that will improve the accuracy and timeliness of our surveillance and targeting systems for improved battlefield awareness, strike capability and battle damage assessment. The Surveillance and Countermeasures Technology project funds sensor efforts that will improve the accuracy and timeliness of our surveillance and targeting systems for improved battlefield awareness, strike capability, and battle damage assessment.

## Related program elements

- [0605803A — Technical Information Activities](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605803A) (Army)
- [0901538F — Cost Estimating Modeling (CEM)](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0901538F) (Air Force)
- [1208053SF — Joint Tactical Ground Station](https://hitchintel.com/programs/1208053SF) (Space Force)
- [0603467E — DARPA Advanced Technology Development](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603467E) (Defense-Wide)

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-3, PE 0603767E (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0603767E")`.

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