What project 3308 buys
Project Unit 3308 Technology Development funds efforts that focus on the quick reaction prototyping and fielding of Tactical EW/countermeasures solutions for increased resilience and survivability, by improving the active electronic self-defense of tactical aircraft. This self-protection provides friendly forces the ability to deploy, survive, operate, maneuver, and regenerate in all domains while under attack as well as strike diverse targets inside adversary air and missile defense networks to destroy mobile power-projection platforms. This Project also includes/enables iASE which improves situational awareness for own-ship, wingman, and distributed command and control. Significant investments have been made in the modular HW and reprogrammable software resident in ASE capability which is fielded today. Technology Development makes specific investments towards: countermeasure/jammer/receiver algorithm development, Advanced EW Suite capability studies/investigation/analysis, threat data file and model updates as modern threats continue to evolve. These updated data files and algorithms are required to be deployed within hours of release by squadron maintenance personnel to aircraft while still on the ramp or flight deck. This program directly addresses the operational requirement of Strike Tactical Air platforms for optimization of EW/countermeasure solutions across the DoN.
- Product Development
- Support
- Test and Evaluation
- Management Services
Project 3308 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 | 22.9 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 12.4 |
| FY2027 | Request | 10.8 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 23.4 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 22.4 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 18.4 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 18.8 |
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. Each describes FY2027 work in enough detail to have its own page; the rest are shown here in full. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
Continued EW product development and initiation of tests in support of the ALQ-214 system on the F/A-18 E/F for Navy aircraft. Develop, model and test advanced electronic countermeasure algorithms for Navy aircraft to defend against modern threats both inside and outside the currently protected RF spectrum. Provide investments for the…
Read the FY2027 plan →Named performers on project 3308
Performers named in the R-3 exhibit under this project. Share is of the project's whole FY2027 R-3 total — the same denominator the program-element split uses, so the two read on one scale and will not sum to 100% when unnamed or government work is in the mix. Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations.