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RDT&E Program Element · President's Budget PB2027

Assured Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT)

PE 0604120A·U.S. Army·Approp. 2040 — RDT&E·BA4 — Advanced Component Development & Prototypes
FY2027 Request
$19.0M
◆ Scaling +119%
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U.S. Army funding ramps 119% to a $19.0M request in FY2027 — the program's peak, before stepping down 52% across the five-year plan. In the FY2027 defense authorization, the House funded it in full; the Senate funded it in full; House appropriators funded it in full.

FY2027 Request
$19.0M
▲ 119% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$8.7M
▼ 23% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$11.3M
Prior year

For fiscal year 2027, the U.S. Army is requesting $19.0M for Assured Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) under RDT&E program element 0604120A, up 119% over FY2026.

Funding trajectory

Funding profile, 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.

011.3FY25ACTUAL8.7FY26ENACTED19.0FY27REQUEST13.8FY289.1FY299.1FY309.2FY31
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual11.3
FY2026Enacted8.7
FY2027Request19.0
FY2028Outyear13.8
FY2029Outyear9.1
FY2030Outyear9.1
FY2031Outyear9.2
Where it sits

Acquisition lifecycle

This program is funded in RDT&E Budget Activity 4 — Advanced Component Development & Prototypes.

Complete
Research
BA 1–2
Complete
Advanced Technology
BA 3
Current
Prototyping
BA 4
Later
Development & Fielding
BA 5–7
Inside the program element

1 project rolls up into PE 0604120A

Projects are the summable leaves — the PE total is their sum, never added to it. Program elements and projects carry the full five-year plan; activities stop at the budget year. This PE moves 119% overall, which can hide much larger swings below.

Project ED5

Assured Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT)

$19.0MFY2027 request ▲ 119%
FY2025 actual$11.3M
FY2026 enacted$8.7M
FY2027 request$19.0M
Management ServicesProduct DevelopmentSupportTest and Evaluation

APNT Modernization develops prototypes for a layered/tiered PNT solutions for clients and vehicular platforms. APNT Modernization will fully implement a Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA), support future integration of Military GPS User Equipment (MGUE) Increment 2, and improve complimentary PNT capabilities that provides a layered, accurate position and time in the absence of GPS for extended missions. This enables the Science & Technology transitions of incremental and complimentary technologies to fieldable Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) solutions to pace or overmatch current and evolving threats and in accordance with National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) Guidance (2021 NDAA: Section 1611). Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Base funds in the amount of $18.993 million continues prototype hardware/software development, developmental testing, systems engineering, and program management for the APNT Modernization efforts.

Accomplishments / planned programs (R-2A) — prior, current and budget year only
CMFF APNT Cards
FY2025 actual$4.0M
FY2026 enacted—
FY2027 request—

FY2025 accomplishments Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 Base funds in the amount of $4.008 Million continues CMFF APNT Card prototype integration engineering support to the Mounted Common Infrastructure Chassis and initiate prototyping hardware and software.

APNT Modernization▲ 119%
FY2025 actual$7.3M
FY2026 enacted$8.7M
FY2027 request$19.0M

Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Base funds in the amount of $18.993 million continues prototype hardware/software development, developmental testing, systems engineering, and program management for the APNT Modernization efforts.

Read the FY2027 plan →
Congressional action

Congressional marks

Committee marks on the FY2027 request. Adds and cuts are reconciled in conference before they become law.

RequestPresident's Budget
$19.0M
House NDAA (HASC)HASC
$19.0M full · +$0
Senate NDAA (SASC)SASC
$19.0M full · +$0
House Approps (HAC-D)HAC_D
$19.0M full · +$0
unresolved as of 2026-07-27. These are FY2027 authorization marks (NDAA); appropriations and the conference agreement may differ.
Who's building it

Where the FY2027 request goes

Performers named in the R-3 exhibit, resolved into industry, government-lab, and unspecified shares. Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations.

Where FY2027 funding flowsShare$M
Other / unspecified100%19.0
FY2027 request100%19.0
Program detail

Mission & acquisition strategy

This funding line is directly aligned to the Army Assured Positioning, Navigation and Timing modernization priority. The Assured Positioning, Navigation and Timing (APNT) capability provides Army ground maneuver forces access to Military Code (M-Code) and assured PNT in accordance with National Defense Authorization Act guidance under conditions where Global Positioning Systems (GPS) may be limited or denied (jammed and spoofed).

The APNT Modernization develops prototypes for a scalable/tiered PNT solutions for clients and vehicular platforms. APNT Modernization will fully implement a Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA), support future integration of Military GPS User Equipment (MGUE) Increment 2, and improve complimentary PNT capabilities that provides a layered, accurate position and time in the absence of GPS for extended missions. The acquisition strategy for the APNT Modernization effort employs a dual-vendor approach for its prototyping phase. This initiative leverages a competitively awarded Other Transaction Authority (OTA) agreement to foster robust competition.

Project ED5 — Assured Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT)
  • Management Services
  • Product Development
  • Support
  • Test and Evaluation
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FY2027 Department of the Army RDT&E Budget Justification · Exhibits R-2 / R-3 · PE 0604120A (President's Budget PB2027) — and FY2027 NDAA committee marks, as tracked 2026-07-27.
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