# Perception Automatic Target Recognition and Track Management

**R-2A activity** of project 3067 — Unmanned Surface Vehicle Enabling Capabilities  
**Program element:** 0605513N — Unmanned Surface Vehicle Enabling Capabilities  
**Component:** U.S. Navy · **Budget Activity:** 4  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605513N/3067/a2  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605513N/3067

> **RESTART.** Funded in FY2025 ($5.7M), zeroed in FY2026, $28.2M requested again in FY2027.

## Summary

This activity requests $28.2M in FY2027, 18% of project 3067 — a restart, funded in FY2025 and zeroed in FY2026. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2026–FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2027 planned work.** In FY2027, the program will expand Perception and Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) capabilities to support operational mission requirements across multiple theaters. This effort will scale operational data collection across Fifth, Sixth, Fourth, and Seventh Fleet areas of responsibility, leveraging a mix of RAS platforms, commercial vessels, and manned assets to capture realistic sensor data across diverse maritime environments. These datasets will support the development, training, and evaluation of operational ATR models aligned with key mission requirements including One-Way Attack (OWA), Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA), Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR), and counter-UAS operations. FY27 activities will leverage enterprise DevSecOps pipelines to enable large-scale data labeling, curation, and model development while supporting continuous testing and improvement of perception and ATR algorithms. The program will competitively award Other Transaction Authorities (OTAs) to integrate and evaluate operational ATR models across multiple USV platforms, with deployments alongside operational units supporting fleet missions to validate mission performance in realistic conditions. In parallel, ATR capabilities will be integrated with the broader perception stack, TrackFusion capabilities, and the Navy's C2 ecosystem, enabling persistent target detection, tracking, and classification across distributed RAS platforms. Integration with Vehicle Mission and Collaborative Autonomy (MCA) will enable coordinated sensing, tracking, and engagement of targets at scale, supporting Distributed Maritime Operations and increasing mission effectiveness across the fleet. The first operational ATR models are planned for testing and validation on USV-1 by the end of Q1 FY2027, followed by integration across additional USV platforms by the end of FY27.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** FY27: +$28.2M to support expansion of MUSV and sUSV production and amplified requirements

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** Although Project 3067 was zeroed in FY 2026, the accomplishments below reflect work executed under FY 2025 funding, with some activities continuing into early FY2026.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 5.7 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 28.2 |

> Prior, current and budget year only — an R-2A activity carries no five-year plan. It sums exactly into its project in the request year and not necessarily in any other.

## Other activities in project 3067

- [Mission and Collaborative Autonomy](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605513N/3067/a1) — FY2027 35.5
- Adjunct Remote Engagement System (ARES) — FY2027 28.7
- [Autonomous Command & Control](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605513N/3067/a4) — FY2027 23.4
- [Networks & Resiliency C4I](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605513N/3067/a0) — FY2027 22.6
- [RAS Software & Cloud Infrastructures](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605513N/3067/a5) — FY2027 13.8
- Management Services — FY2027 4.5

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Navy RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0605513N project 3067 (PB PB2027). Narrative is the government's own text.
- **No marks, no contractors at this grain** — congressional marks land on the program element and R-3 performers on the project.
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_activity`.

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