RDT&E Project · President's Budget PB2027

Lasers & Imaging Technology

Project 624866·PE 1206601SF — Space Technology·U.S. Space Force·BA2
FY2027 Request
$40.6M
▲ 11% vs FY2026
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Project 624866 — Lasers & Imaging Technology requests $40.6M in FY2027, 17% of the $234.2M requested for program element 1206601SF, up 11% on FY2026. 1 R-2A activity decomposes the request.

FY2027 Request
$40.6M
▲ 11% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$36.6M
▲ 28% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$28.6M
Prior year
Project detail

What project 624866 buys

This project conducts research advancing ground-based optical space domain awareness, techniques to counter laser threats to space craft, and laser applications towards ground-to-space quantum communication.

Funding trajectory

Project 624866 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.

25028.6FY25ACTUAL36.6FY26ENACTED40.6FY27REQUEST39.6FY2840.4FY2941.3FY3042.1FY31
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual28.6
FY2026Enacted36.6
FY2027Request40.6
FY2028Outyear39.6
FY2029Outyear40.4
FY2030Outyear41.3
FY2031Outyear42.1
Inside the project

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.

FY2025 actual$28.6M
FY2026 enacted$36.6M
FY2027 request$40.6M

Continue: - Mature component technologies for 24/7 optical and infrared imaging of near-earth and geosynchronous resident space objects enabling tactically-responsive change detection and characterization to include the detection and tracking of small objects in very-close proximity to high-value geosynchronous assets using ground-based…

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