# Engineering Analysis

**R-2A activity** of project SF101 — Engineering Analysis  
**Program element:** 1160402BB — SOF Advanced Technology Development  
**Component:** Defense-Wide · **Budget Activity:** 3  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/1160402BB/SF101/a1  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/1160402BB/SF101

## Summary

This activity requests $10.0M in FY2027, 61% of project SF101, down 18% on FY2026. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2025–FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2027 planned work.** 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 significant improvements to operate in contested environments, systems that improve situational awareness on the battlefield, and disruptive technologies to enable ISR in future environments. Continues to assess materials, concepts, and prototypes to increase operator effectiveness and situational awareness in all environments. Continues engineering analysis activities to improve SOF platform mission survivability. Activities include enhanced data source correlation capability to improve SA and improve platform survivability, AI enabled ISR targeting and counterintelligence, track correlation software to reduce duplicate object tracks on a display, and versatile mission equipment (payloads, communications, and weapons) to improve SOF survivability in less than permissive operating environments.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Decrease of $2.136 million reflects the strategic reallocation of resources to support USSOCOM evolving priorities.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** Continues 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 significant improvements to operate in contested environments, systems that improve situational awareness on the battlefield, and disruptive technologies to enable ISR in future environments. Continues to assess materials, concepts, and prototypes to increase operator effectiveness and situational awareness in all environments. Continues engineering analysis activities to improve SOF platform mission survivability. Activities include enhanced data source correlation capability to improve SA and improve platform survivability, AI enabled ISR targeting and counterintelligence, track correlation software to reduce duplicate object tracks on a display, and versatile mission equipment (payloads, communications, and weapons) to improve SOF survivability in less than permissive operating environments.

**FY2025 accomplishments.** 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 network and data management systems multi-domain communications and computers that incorporate significant improvements to operate in contested environments, systems that improve situational awareness on the battlefield, and disruptive technologies to enable ISR in future environments. Continue to assess materials, concepts, and prototypes to increase operator effectiveness and situational awareness in all environments. Continue engineering analysis activities to improve SOF platform mission survivability. Activities include signature management (acoustic, infrared, radio frequency), situational awareness with full spectrum threat warning and countermeasures, and versatile mission equipment (payloads, communications, and weapons) to improve SOF survivability in less than permissive operating environments.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 12.7 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 12.1 |
| FY2027 | Request | 10.0 |

> 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 SF101

- Experimentation Force — FY2027 3.9
- National to Theater Engineering Analysis — FY2027 2.6

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 1160402BB project SF101 (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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