# Project 658462 — Airborne Electronic Attack

**Program element:** 0604270F — Electronic Warfare Development  
**Project:** 658462  
**Component:** U.S. Air Force  
**Appropriation:** 3600 — RDT&E, Air Force  
**Budget Activity:** 5 — System Development & Demonstration  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604270F/658462  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604270F

## Summary

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.

**Markets:** Airborne Electronic Warfare — matched on the project title only, and no market size is quoted.

## Funding profile

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 18.0 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 6.0 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 7.1 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 7.2 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 7.3 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0604270F; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## 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.

## Activities (R-2A) — 1

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Multi-Modal Delivery Capability | — | 0.0 | 18.0 | new | — |

> Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan. In the request year they partition this project exactly; in earlier years they can under-cover it.

### Multi-Modal Delivery Capability — NEW START

**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

## What is NOT on this page

Congressional marks, the R-2 mission description and acquisition strategy, the industry vs government split of the whole request, and related program elements are recorded at **program-element** grain — an NDAA mark lands on a PE, never on a project. They are at https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604270F.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0604270F project 658462 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0604270F")`.

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