# Project SF101 — Engineering Analysis

**Program element:** 1160402BB — SOF Advanced Technology Development  
**Project:** SF101  
**Component:** Defense-Wide  
**Appropriation:** 0400 — RDT&E, Defense-Wide  
**Budget Activity:** 3 — Advanced Technology Development  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/1160402BB/SF101  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/1160402BB

## Summary

Project SF101 — Engineering Analysis requests $16.4M in FY2027, 13% of the $126.1M requested for program element 1160402BB, down 7.7% on FY2026. 3 R-2A activities decompose the request.

## Funding profile

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 19.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 17.8 |
| FY2027 | Request | 16.4 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 19.7 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 19.8 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 19.8 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 20.2 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 1160402BB; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## What project SF101 buys

This project provides a rapid response capability to support Special Operations Forces (SOF) programs and capabilities across the enterprise. The purpose is to correct system deficiencies, improve asset life, and enhance mission capability through the means of feasibility studies, analysis of alternatives, pre-developmental risk reduction studies, and engineering analyses. This project provides the engineering required to improve the design and performance integrity of the SOF equipment and software and to integrate disruptive “off-the-shelf” technologies to meet current and emergent capability gaps. This project also conducts risk reduction studies, analyses, and demonstrations to support emerging, time-critical equipment, weapons, and sensor enhancements.

## Activities (R-2A) — 3

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Engineering Analysis | 12.7 | 12.1 | 10.0 | −18% | [a1](https://hitchintel.com/programs/1160402BB/SF101/a1) |
| Experimentation Force | 3.8 | 3.2 | 3.9 | +21% | — |
| National to Theater Engineering Analysis | 2.4 | 2.5 | 2.6 | +4% | — |

> Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan. In the request year they partition this project exactly; in earlier years they can under-cover it.

### Engineering Analysis

Continue to assess concepts and prototypes that provide increased capability of SOF mobility platforms to include improvements to meet emerging threats. Assesses and evaluates advanced methods to deliver scalable and precision effects. Identifies, assesses, and evaluates improved multi-domain communications and computers that incorporate…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/1160402BB/SF101/a1

### Experimentation Force

**FY2027 planned work.** Continue the development of innovative concepts, conducts experimentation to develop autonomous remotely controlled systems, solutions for contested communications and solutions for contested logistics.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Increase of $0.679 million supports continued integration of technology applications in support of SO-p modernization needs.

**FY2026 plans — current year.** Continues the development of innovative concepts, conducts experimentation to develop autonomous remotely controlled systems, solutions for contested communications and solutions for contested logistics.

**FY2025 accomplishments.** Continue the development of innovative concepts, conducts experimentation to develop hyper-enabled teams capable of conducting globally integrated special operations across all domains and identifies opportunities to insert technology to mitigate SO-p operational capability gaps.

### National to Theater Engineering Analysis

**FY2027 planned work.** Continue additional testing and evaluation required on various equipment items such as communications, intelligence, weapons, and operator protection planned for transition to SOF Theater Forces.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Increase of $0.092 million supports additional testing and evaluation requirements on various planned efforts.

**FY2026 plans — current year.** Continues additional testing and evaluation required on various equipment items such as communications, intelligence, weapons, and operator protection planned for transition to SOF Theater Forces.

**FY2025 accomplishments.** Continue additional testing and evaluation required on various equipment items such as communications, intelligence, weapons, and operator protection planned for transition to SOF Theater Forces.

## What is NOT on this page

Congressional marks, the R-2 mission description and acquisition strategy, the industry vs government split of the whole request, and related program elements are recorded at **program-element** grain — an NDAA mark lands on a PE, never on a project. They are at https://hitchintel.com/programs/1160402BB.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 1160402BB project SF101 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="1160402BB")`.

*HitchAI is an independent intelligence service, not affiliated with the U.S. Department of Defense. Budget figures are requests/estimates, not obligations.*