RDT&E Project · President's Budget PB2027

Spacecraft Payload Technologies

Project 624846·PE 1206601SF — Space Technology·U.S. Space Force·BA2
FY2027 Request
$40.2M
▼ 7.5% vs FY2026
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Project 624846 — Spacecraft Payload Technologies requests $40.2M in FY2027, 17% of the $234.2M requested for program element 1206601SF, down 7.5% on FY2026. 2 R-2A activities decompose the request.

FY2027 Request
$40.2M
▼ 7.6% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$43.5M
▼ 8.3% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$47.4M
Prior year
Project detail

What project 624846 buys

This project develops advanced technologies that enhance spacecraft payload operations by improving materials/component, networking, analysis tools, and subsystem capabilities. This project focuses on identifying and developing technologies that enable new, or enhance existing, communication, positioning, navigation, and timing satellite capabilities, as well as developing technologies and models that support space based surveillance and space asset protection.

Funding trajectory

Project 624846 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.

25047.4FY25ACTUAL43.5FY26ENACTED40.2FY27REQUEST41.6FY2841.8FY2942.9FY3043.8FY31
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual47.4
FY2026Enacted43.5
FY2027Request40.2
FY2028Outyear41.6
FY2029Outyear41.8
FY2030Outyear42.9
FY2031Outyear43.8
Inside the project

2 accomplishments / planned programs

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 describe FY2027 work in enough detail to have their own page; the rest are shown here in full. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.

FY2025 actual$26.2M
FY2026 enacted$21.8M
FY2027 request$23.8M

Continue: -Support field demonstrations and on-orbit experiments to characterize the interaction of communication, and position, navigation, and timing signals between the multi-layer, multi-function architectures in contested environments and exercise potential concept of operations. -Build on efforts to leverage Artificial…

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FY2025 actual$14.2M
FY2026 enacted$14.1M
FY2027 request$16.4M

Continue: -Space-based sensors for resilient target custody by target tracking space architectures. -Data analytics and data mobility solutions for edge processing, information networking, and human-machine learning in support of tactical sensing and targeting. -Trusted Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) Models…

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