What project 2190 buys
The Offboard Active Decoy (Nulka) is a joint cooperative program between the United States and Australia that developed an active offboard decoy that utilizes a broadband radio frequency repeater mounted atop a hovering rocket. Nulka counters a wide variety of present and future radar guided Anti-Ship Missiles (ASMs) by radiating a large radar cross section while flying a ship-like trajectory. The United States developed the electronic payload and fire control system, while Australia developed the hovering rocket. The FY 2027 budget request includes Decoy Launcher Processor (DLP) Nulka Objective Architecture, Decoy Launch Message Converter (DLMC) backward compatibility technology with Soft Kill Coordination System (SKCS), as well as funding to commence Nulka Payload Improvements for EW capability. The Objective Architecture development will continue which provides improved Nulka decoy deployment as well as SKCS integration.
- Product Development
- Management Services
Project 2190 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 | 4.8 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 5.6 |
| FY2027 | Request | 12.5 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 4.9 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 5.0 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 5.0 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 5.1 |
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.
- Continue engineering and effectiveness studies to evaluate new and existing threats; update Fly-Out Tactics table for specific platforms (as appropriate) - Continue to develop and test new Nulka library files to support new platforms with SKCS (as appropriate) - Continue DLMC Nulka Objective Architecture backward compatibility…
Read the FY2027 plan →Named performers on project 2190
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.