What project 3068 buys
The Long Endurance Electronic Decoy (LEED) program will deliver an expendable long endurance autonomous off-board decoy Countermeasure system, comprised of a flight vehicle and Radio Frequency (RF) payload with modular capability allowing for rapid modification of the Electronic Warfare (EW) capability. LEED development executes under a Middle Tier of Acquisition Rapid Prototyping (MTA RP) strategy pursuant to Section 804 of the FY 2016 National Defense Authorization Act. LEED will integrate with SLQ-32 and address EW gaps in response to a fleet requirement to counter Anti-Ship Missile (ASM) threats. LEED will provide the fleet with enhanced EW coordination and capability, including the ability to stretch engagement timelines and counter legacy, modern, and future heterogeneous missile attacks. The overarching LEED strategy consists of two phases including a MTA RP phase followed by Major Capability Acquisition. The MTA RP phase will include Preliminary and Integrated Countermeasure Prototype Development (FY 2021-FY 2025) and Integrated System Testing (FY 2025-FY 2026). The MTA RP phase includes the development and test of operational-level Countermeasure prototypes, launch systems, and control software that demonstrate and validate critical capabilities; including flight performance, control, and payload functionality. Data collected from the initial prototypes will be used to develop Engineering Development Models (EDMs) for Qualification Testing to support a Milestone C decision for Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) as LEED enters the Major Capability Acquisition phase. FY 2027 funding requests supports planned improvements and subsequent testing of the LEED prototype system to include technique advancement, software updates, tactic updates, system effectiveness assessments, improvements in targeted technical performance measurements, necessary material purchases for test and evaluation activities, cybersecurity advancement, and development of a countermeasure model to support system of systems modeling and simulation activities. Funding also supports further integration with shipboard EW and combat systems and advancement of systems of systems interoperability, testing, and subsequent curriculum updates. Funding request supports prototype shipset hardware completion and installation aboard a US ship.
- Product Development
- Support
- Test and Evaluation
- Management Services
Project 3068 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 | 82.9 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 145.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 99.5 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 58.7 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 40.5 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 29.1 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 29.7 |
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 developing modeling and simulation tools to support countermeasure versus threat performance assessments - Continue execution of IPTs to support requirements, systems engineering, testing, and product support - Coordinate and conduct government led testing events; Support the development of test procedures and testing…
Read the FY2027 plan →Named performers on project 3068
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.