# Electro-Magnetic Battlespace Shaping and Protection (EM-BSP)

**R-2A activity** of project AX3 — Technology Maturation Initiatives  
**Program element:** 0604115A — Technology Maturation Initiatives  
**Component:** U.S. Army · **Budget Activity:** 4  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604115A/AX3/a14  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604115A

## Summary

This activity requests $10.8M in FY2027, 3.4% of project AX3, down 42% 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.** Design and development of the prototype RF Smoke solution to disrupt the electromagnetic spectrum, effectively masking, concealing, and preserving combat lethality overmatch in contested environments. This will involve refining system architecture, integrating key components, and ensuring the solution meets operational requirements. Live-fire testing will be conducted to evaluate and demonstrate the RF Smoke's operational performance, including its effectiveness in real-world scenarios and its ability to achieve mission objectives. Upon successful testing and validation, the prototype will transition to the Program Executive Office (PEO) for further refinement, production planning, and eventual fielding to operational units.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** The funding reduction aligns with the efforts plan, reflecting the completion of the prototype system's design and development phase in preparation for live testing and experimentation.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** Complete RF Smoke prototype fabrication. Complete integration into EWPMT and AFATDS Command and Control Functions. Complete evaluation and assessment of prototype RF Smoke solution capabilities to disrupt the EM spectrum to mask, conceal, and preserve combat lethality overmatch.

**FY2025 accomplishments.** Begin prototyping activities across multiple Program Executive Offices (PEOs) to support an end-state integrated SoS demonstration. Virtually prototype the SoS architecture.?Refine system and subsystem requirements and interfaces. Prototype RF Smoke technology candidates across EM spectrums of interest and initiate design-of-experiment analysis for optimal material payload mix against target sets. Virtually prototype dispense mechanism to aid in RF Smoke material candidate analysis for a Cargo Rocket/Missile application. Define application interfaces, virtually prototype RF Smoke effects model software for battle management of the smoke across Electronic Warfare and artillery fire control systems.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 10.6 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 18.6 |
| FY2027 | Request | 10.8 |

> 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 AX3

- [Electronic Warfare (EW) / Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-UAS)](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604115A/AX3/a20) — FY2027 61.1
- [Weapons and Fires](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604115A/AX3/a24) — FY2027 46.7
- [Intelligence and Sensing](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604115A/AX3/a25) — FY2027 32.1
- [Iron Sense](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604115A/AX3/a18) — FY2027 31.7
- [Soldier System and Expeditionary Support](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604115A/AX3/a23) — FY2027 28.7
- [Corps and Division Prototyping](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604115A/AX3/a26) — FY2027 28.1
- [Army Service Component Command (ASCC) Prototyping](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604115A/AX3/a27) — FY2027 25.1
- [Air and Ground Platforms](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604115A/AX3/a22) — FY2027 20.0
- [Networks, Command, Control, Communications, and Position Navigation and Timing](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604115A/AX3/a21) — FY2027 15.2
- [Critical Common Electronics for Scalable Unmanned Aircraft Systems](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604115A/AX3/a19) — FY2027 12.0
- Expeditionary Field Artillery Sensor (ExFAS) — FY2027 3.1
- Autonomous Operations for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) — FY2027 —
- Air Launched Effects (ALE) Off-board Survivability — FY2027 —
- Tactical Analytics Architecture (TA2) — FY2027 —
- Tactical Navigation Warfare (NAVWAR) Plexus — FY2027 —
- Assured Navigation for Future Tactical Unmanned Aerial Systems (FTUAS) — FY2027 —
- Reconfigurable Aperture Precision Targeting Radar (RAPTR) for Vehicle and Dismount Exploitation Radar (VADER) (RADER) — FY2027 —
- Lightweight Polymers for Modern Small Caliber Apps - Ammo Casing Only — FY2027 —
- Optical Threat Detection — FY2027 —
- Solid State High Power Microwave System (SS-HPM) — FY2027 —
- Collaborative Links for Integrated Fires (CLIF) — FY2027 —
- Multi-Network, Multi-Waveform Software Defined Radio — FY2027 —
- Consolidated prototype platform for Joint Common Artificial Intelligence / Autonomous Operations, Data architectures, and Power systems — FY2027 —
- Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) Prototyping — FY2027 —
- Aviation Lightweight Armor — FY2027 —
- Combination Soldier and Logistics Aerial Insertion (Combodrop) — FY2027 —
- Containerized Weapon System - Counter UAS — FY2027 —

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Army RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0604115A project AX3 (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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