What project 625018 buys
This project develops the technologies to perform faster, well-informed decision making for space operations, enhanced mission assurance of critical space services, and integrate space with joint operational picture for protecting United States space assets, in potentially hostile environments, to assure continued space system operation. The project provides transitionable technology and knowledge to enable speed-of-light protection, many-on-many engagement and defense, and new orbit regimes despite growing threat impunity. This project also encompasses efforts to expand the University Consortium for Space Research to address research needs unique to the United States Space Force.
Project 625018 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.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 49.4 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 45.2 |
| FY2027 | Request | 49.1 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 50.2 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 51.2 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 52.2 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 53.4 |
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.
Continue: -Developing sophisticated techniques to detect, identify, track, characterize, and catalog satellites using multi-phenomenology sensing with particular focus on space situational awareness for novel and challenging orbits. -Science & Technology feeding flight experiments that will demonstrate utility of cislunar situational…
Read the FY2027 plan →Continue: -University led technical efforts under SSTI 2 for In-Space Operations to include inspection technology, multi-arm manipulator, deployable mesh, developing prototype of highly adaptive robotic grasping technologies as well as CubeSat-based flight, berthing, recharging, and refueling technologies. -University led technical…
Read the FY2027 plan →