What project 724 buys
Focus investment on 1) waveform resilience for tactical and expeditionary environments, 2) simplified network deployment (logical and physical), management, and orchestration, and 3) heterogenous network integration for Partner Force interoperability and interchangeability. At end-state, provide innovation that enables commercial network technologies in tactical operations and advance 5G/6G technology for scalable, interoperable, and resilient warfighting networks to execute effective communications for coalition coordination with Allies and Partners. When able, expeditionary and tactical projects will be evaluated in a deployed expeditionary environment over tactical and applicable commercial 5G/6G infrastructure with operationally relevant numbers of users and geographic scale. Current efforts will continue to leverage scalable, interoperable, and resilient warfighting networks that support Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control. Future efforts will optimize within the constraints of commercial 5G/6G standards by investigating application of relevant areas ahead of commercial markets and advocating for tactically relevant, high payoff seedling research in artificial intelligence, quantum technologies, operational security, and future standards development. The Army Tactical Mobility project is a cost effective, combat-ready 5G On-The-Move (OTM) Command and Control (C2) capability that meets latency, throughput, range, and resiliency objectives. This program will address operational needs and future Secure Cellular Program requirements for survivability of Army networks to include the distributed Command Post (i.e., mobility, dispersion, concealment). Additionally, in partnership with the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence, the Scalable Interoperable Resilient-5G (SIR-5G) initiative employs 5G secure roaming, Radio Access Network (RAN) Sharing, and internetworking to provide a 5G warfighting network that NATO allies can directly procure as they increase their defense spending.
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Project 724 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 36.5 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 27.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 0.0 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 0.0 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 0.0 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 0.0 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 0.0 |
1 accomplishment / planned program
The R-2A exhibit — the only level of the budget that describes work that has not happened yet. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only, no five-year plan. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
FY2026 to FY2027 change The decrease of $12.281 million between FY 2026 to FY 2027 reflects a realignment of DoW funding.
FY2026 plans — current year In FY 2026, the program will continue to improve interoperability for forces from different NATO Allies to share data and coordinate actions in near real-time, under stress and in contested conditions; develop advanced expeditionary 5G tactical network communication capabilities that provide high bandwidth, high data speeds on a resilient, secure architecture and cross-platform compatibility for both commercial and specialized devices; develop a unified, software-defined radio platform integrating 5G capabilities and tactical waveforms on a CMOSS architecture, simplifying military communications and enhancing interoperability; and complete remaining transition tasks for the Tactical…
FY2025 accomplishments The DoD will culminate and transition activities at the remaining 5G experiment sites. The program will continue technology transitions and transferring sites to services through collaboration with DoD 5G CFT. These projects include efforts at Naval Station Norfolk and Camp Pendleton. Naval Station Norfolk experimentation developed a 5G Reference Architecture for cost-effective Ship-wide and Pier-side 5G infrastructure testbed to host reliable and repeatable experimentation, grow organic knowledge, and build industry and academic partnerships. Additionally, the Camp Pendleton EABO project developed and deployed a private, standalone, multiband, 5G Open Radio Access Network (RAN) testbed…