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RDT&E Program Element · President's Budget PB2027

Wide Area Surveillance

PE 0604445F·U.S. Air Force·Approp. 3600 — RDT&E·BA7 — Operational System Development
FY2027 Request
$0.0M
Air Force · RDT&E
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U.S. Air Force requests $0.0M in FY2027.

FY2027 Request
$0.0M
No FY2026 funding
FY2026 Enacted
$0.0M
▼ 100% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$20.7M
Prior year

For fiscal year 2027, the U.S. Air Force is requesting $0.0M for Wide Area Surveillance under RDT&E program element 0604445F, against nothing enacted in 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.

020.7FY25ACTUAL0.0FY26ENACTED0.0FY27REQUEST0.0FY280.0FY290.0FY300.0FY31
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual20.7
FY2026Enacted0.0
FY2027Request0.0
FY2028Outyear0.0
FY2029Outyear0.0
FY2030Outyear0.0
FY2031Outyear0.0
Where it sits

Acquisition lifecycle

This program is funded in RDT&E Budget Activity 7 — Operational System Development.

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

1 project rolls up into PE 0604445F

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.

Project 675899

Wide Area Surveillance

$0.0MFY2027 request
FY2025 actual$20.7M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Product DevelopmentTest and Evaluation

Wide Area Surveillance (WAS) consists of three complementary advanced sensor systems, the Stateside Affordable Radar System (STARS), Scorpion, and Affordable Long Range Persistent Systems (ALPS). Based on existing technological capabilities, WAS detects/tracks low, slow and other asymmetrical threats in the airspace and meets the user needs by sensing stressing airborne targets in complex environments with affordable sensors. The sensor outputs are incorporated into the Battle Control Systems-Fixed (BCS-F) air picture and utilized as the North American Aerospace Defense Command/ Northern Command (NORAD/NORTHCOM) Command and Control (C2) air surveillance system of record. This program element included all necessary 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 elements 0605829F, 0605831F, 0605833F, and 0605898F.

Accomplishments / planned programs (R-2A) — prior, current and budget year only
STARS (S1) Block 2 Modernization and Scorpion (S2) testing
FY2025 actual$20.7M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M

FY2027 planned work No FY27 funding is appropriated

FY2026 plans — current year No FY26 funding is appropriated

Program detail

Mission & acquisition strategy

Wide Area Surveillance (WAS) consists of three advanced sensor systems, the Stateside Affordable Radar System (STARS), Scorpion, and Affordable Long Range Persistent Systems (ALPS). Based on existing technological capabilities, WAS detects/tracks low, slow and other asymmetrical threats in the airspace and meets the user needs by sensing airborne targets in complex environments with affordable sensors. The sensor outputs will be incorporated into the Battle Control Systems-Fixed (BCS-F) air picture and utilized as the North American Aerospace Defense Command/ Northern Command (NORAD/NORTHCOM) Command and Control (C2) air surveillance system of record.

The Wide Area Surveillance (WAS) strategy is a single step acquisition approach for full capability to develop, produce, and field highly capable and sustainable advanced sensors in the National Capital Region. Science & technology contracts were let prior to the Engineering and Manufacturing Development phase for both subsystems. The Cost Plus Fixed-Fee (CPFF) contract for Stateside Affordable Radar System (STARS) was awarded to a single developer to design, build, integrate, and test the STARS system. A subsequent task order was awarded (July 2017) to include pre-operational site support.

Project 675899 — Wide Area Surveillance
  • Product Development
  • Test and Evaluation
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FY2027 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification · Exhibits R-2 / R-3 · PE 0604445F (President's Budget PB2027).
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