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RDT&E Project · President's Budget PB2027

Airborne Electronic Attack

Project 658462·PE 0604270F — Electronic Warfare Development·U.S. Air Force·BA5
FY2027 Request
$18.0M
◆ New start in FY2027
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Project 658462 — Airborne Electronic Attack requests $18.0M in FY2027, 6.9% of the $260.2M requested for program element 0604270F — a new start, with no prior-year and no current-year money. 1 R-2A activity decomposes the request, 1 new this cycle.

New start

This project requests $18.0M in FY2027 with no prior-year and no current-year funding. There is no incumbent line to compare it with — it did not exist before this President's Budget.

MarketAirborne Electronic Warfare

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FY2027 Request
$18.0M
No FY2026 funding
FY2026 Enacted
$0.0M
No FY2025 funding
FY2025 Actual
$0.0M
Prior year
Project detail

What project 658462 buys

The Multi-Modal Delivery Capability project will operationalize the nascent High Altitude Balloon (HAB) program and deliver immediate operational missions. Operational employment of HAB systems requires a hybrid approach with different but complimentary systems. This program will focus on low-cost, attritable tactical swarming platforms for rapid employment when limited indicators and warnings. This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver weapon system capability. The use of such program funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program element 00605827F, 0605828F, 0605829F, 0605831F, 0605832F, 0605833F, 0605898F, 0606398F. This program is in Budget Activity 5, System Development and Demonstration (SDD) most of its elements have passed Milestone B, it's equivalent, or there is enough evidence that there is low risk in pursuing SDD type activities in pursuit of engineering and manufacturing development tasks aimed at meeting validated requirements prior to full rate production

R-3 lines of work
  • Product Development
Funding trajectory

Project 658462 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.

00.0FY25ACTUAL0.0FY26ENACTED18.0FY27REQUEST6.0FY287.1FY297.2FY307.3FY31
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual0.0
FY2026Enacted0.0
FY2027Request18.0
FY2028Outyear6.0
FY2029Outyear7.1
FY2030Outyear7.2
FY2031Outyear7.3
Inside the project

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.

Multi-Modal Delivery CapabilityNEW
FY2025 actual—
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$18.0M

FY2027 planned work Work on the gondola system development and EW payload integration into a functional prototype, and experimenting with deployment/employment operations

FY2026 to FY2027 change New Start

FY2026 plans — current year Funding begins in FY27