# Project 093 — Electronic Warfare Test

**Program element:** 0603941D8Z — Test and Evaluation Science and Technology  
**Project:** 093  
**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/0603941D8Z/093  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603941D8Z

## Summary

Project 093 — Electronic Warfare Test requests $324.9M in FY2027, 8.5% of the $3.83B requested for program element 0603941D8Z, up 1573% on FY2026. 1 R-2A activity decomposes the request.

**Markets:** Airborne Electronic Warfare, Comms, Radar & EW Electronics — matched on the project title only, and no market size is quoted.

## Funding profile

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 24.9 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 19.4 |
| FY2027 | Request | 324.9 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 170.7 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 58.5 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 42.3 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 43.2 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0603941D8Z; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## What project 093 buys

In order to establish dominance in the modern battlespace, our offensive and defensive electronic warfare systems must be capable against advanced radio frequency (RF) directed threats and electro-optic (EO) guided threats, which include infrared (IR) guidance. Ensured dominance in these areas requires more robust test and evaluation (T&E) with technologies that are rapidly adaptable to changing threats. Readily available, IR seeking, man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS) are difficult to detect and pose an imminent and lethal threat to military aircraft of all types. Our ability to counter such threats is essential to owning the battlespace in theater. Therefore, the ability to test missile warning systems (MWS), hostile fire indicator (HFI) systems, IR countermeasures (IRCM), and advanced threat sensors is critical to our national defense. Additionally, a new generation of enemy RF missile seekers is both currently fielded and in further development, requiring a correspondingly new generation of test technologies to test the latest countermeasures. The T&E community is required to test IRCM and RF countermeasure systems in a repeatable manner with ground-truth data before and after integration into warfighting systems. Without new test technologies, the Department will be unable to perform adequate T&E of advanced warning and countermeasure systems. The Electronic Warfare Electronic attack and Electronic protect (EP) community is developing jammers and EP measures that are more sophisticated and take advantage of newer technology that allows adaptive waveforms and artificial intelligence and autonomy to respond to threats more rapidly and robustly. In addition, the testing of these systems in realistic many on many environments that are more threat representative requires new technology investment. The technology development efforts within the Electronic Warfare Test (EWT) project have been prioritized to align with the Department’s guidance on science and technology priority investments. As such, the EWT project is focusing on the test needs in both the EO, including IR, and the RF threat domains. Additionally, development of core test technologies in this area can be leveraged to meet other EO and RF test requirements, such as in fire control systems; intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) sensors, and weapon seekers.

## Activities (R-2A) — 1

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electronic Warfare Test | 24.9 | 19.4 | 324.9 | +1573% | [a0](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603941D8Z/093/a0) |

> Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan. In the request year they partition this project exactly; in earlier years they can under-cover it.

### Electronic Warfare Test

In FY 2027, EWT will continue to develop and transition test technologies to improve simulated EW environments and secure test facilities, and enhance the scale and efficiency of EW testing in large-scale, open-air exercises and events. Highlights include: - Increase realistic target availability for missile testing to include…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603941D8Z/093/a0

## What is NOT on this page

Congressional marks, the R-2 mission description and acquisition strategy, the industry vs government split of the whole request, and related program elements are recorded at **program-element** grain — an NDAA mark lands on a PE, never on a project. They are at https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603941D8Z.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0603941D8Z project 093 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0603941D8Z")`.

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