# Electronic Warfare Test

**R-2A activity** of project 093 — Electronic Warfare Test  
**Program element:** 0603941D8Z — Test and Evaluation Science and Technology  
**Component:** Defense-Wide · **Budget Activity:** 3  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603941D8Z/093/a0  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603941D8Z/093

## Summary

This activity requests $324.9M in FY2027, 100% of project 093, up 1573% on FY2026. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2025–FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2027 planned work.** 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 replacement of aging high speed targets and acquisition of airborne targets capable of presenting realistic collaborative and electromagnetic threat environments - Evolve class-representative, multi-threat, software-defined, domestic emitter technology - Introduce cognitive EW leveraging artificial intelligence - Progress on foundation upgrades of test facilities and laboratories - Integrate and upgrade new aircraft instrumentation systems

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** The majority of the $305.490 million increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 will support additional realistic target availability for missile testing. The increase will also support the continuation on previously delayed class representative, multi-threat, software-defined representation of modern threat radars, improve spectrum coverage and the ability to transmit classified threat signals in secure facilities, and integrate expanded capabilities across existing ranges to enable larger, more realistic, and more complex test environments.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** In FY 2026, EWT will continues to develop 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: - Investments in technologies related to Cognitive EW, Cognitive Radar, and EW sensors that feed Artificial Intelligence uses of EW data - Improve Ground EW systems and cUAS EW testing - Efforts in infrared scene projection for sensor and seeker testing - Address scene generation for both EO and RF sensors and seeker testing

**FY2025 accomplishments.** In FY25, EWT will continue developing 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: - Investments in technologies related to Cognitive EW, Cognitive Radar, and EW sensors that feed Artificial Intelligence uses of EW data - Improve Ground EW systems and cUAS EW testing - Efforts in infrared scene projection for sensor and seeker testing - Address scene generation for both EO and RF sensors and seeker testing - Improve motors for flight motion simulator performance - Improve airborne jammer simulation - Address simulation of many-on-many EA environment

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 24.9 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 19.4 |
| FY2027 | Request | 324.9 |

> 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.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0603941D8Z project 093 (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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