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Effects
Budget figures
FY2026 award data is a partial year — USAspending reports awards on a rolling basis, and this corpus runs through 2026-09-04. why partial FY2026 data? →
Budget trajectory
| Fiscal year | Amount |
|---|---|
| FY24 | $0J-book detail · PB2026 |
| FY25 | $0J-book detail · PB2026 |
| FY26 | $20.3MR-1 TOA · PB2026 |
Decade view
P-1/R-1 workbook TOA basis, shown compact in $B/$M (the workbook records USD thousands); each figure cites its own President's Budget edition
● actuals (line) · ○ enacted · ◇ request — gaps are editions the program is absent from, never interpolated.
| Series | FY26 |
|---|---|
| Request | $20.3M |
blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.
Program lineage
No predecessor/successor lineage was recorded for this program element — no FY-to-FY transfer into or out of this line was stated in the ingested J-books, and none was inferred from the program structure.
Description
Mission — EFFECTS
The efforts described in this Program Element (PE) address the Applied Research associated with the examination and evaluation of emerging technologies and system concepts that employ either physical or non-physical means to degrade or deny targeted adversary capabilities. This PE also supports innovation and robust transition planning in the technology cycle by working with entrepreneurs to increase the likelihood that DARPA funded technologies take root in the U.S. and provide new capabilities for national defense. The Effects project will examine and evaluate emerging technologies and system concepts that employ physical or non-physical means to degrade or deny targeted adversary capabilities. The feasibility of achieving potential improvements, in terms of resources, schedule, and technological risk, is also evaluated. The results from these studies and initiatives are used, in part, to formulate future prototype development programs or refocus ongoing work. Topics for this thrust include: methods of defeating enemy anti-aircraft attacks; munition technologies to increase precision, range, endurance, and hard or soft-kill weapons for a variety of mission sets; digital design methodologies that are compatible with surged production. The Effects Support project contains non-headquarters management costs in support of DARPA functions and activities across the entire Effects PE. These costs include: DARPA classified and unclassified network support and equipment; contractor support; classified program security; building security; commercial transition services that increase the likelihood that DARPA-funded technologies remain in the U.S. and provide new capabilities for national defense; DARPA outreach to universities and industry; external contracting, financial and support fees; Program Manager Intragovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) Funding; Program Managers from other Government Agencies; and similar operating expenses. Agency support is allocated on a pro-rata basis across the Agency's BA1, BA2 and BA3 PEs and, therefore, fluctuates per PE by fiscal year based on the total Agency budget in that fiscal year. Prior to FY 2026, efforts in this PE were funded in PE 0602716E, Electronics Technology.
Mission — EFFECTS
The Effects project will examine and evaluate emerging technologies and system concepts that employ physical or non-physical means to degrade or deny targeted adversary capabilities. The feasibility of achieving potential improvements, in terms of resources, schedule, and technological risk, is also evaluated. The results from these studies and initiatives are used, in part, to formulate future prototype development programs or refocus ongoing work. Topics for this thrust include: methods of defeating enemy anti-aircraft attacks; munition technologies to increase precision, range, endurance, and hard or soft-kill weapons for a variety of mission sets; digital design methodologies that are compatible with surged production. Prior to FY 2026, efforts in this Project were funded in PE 0602716E, Project ELT-01.
Mission — EFFECTS SUPPORT
The Effects Support project contains non-headquarters management costs in support of DARPA functions and activities across the entire Effects PE. These costs include: DARPA classified and unclassified network support and equipment; contractor support; classified program security; building security; commercial transition services that increase the likelihood that DARPA-funded technologies remain in the U.S. and provide new capabilities for national defense; DARPA outreach to universities and industry; external contracting, financial and support fees; Program Manager Intragovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) Funding; Program Managers from other Government Agencies; and similar operating expenses. Agency support is allocated on a pro-rata basis across the Agency's BA1, BA2 and BA3 PEs and, therefore, fluctuates per PE by fiscal year based on the total Agency budget in that fiscal year. Prior to FY 2026, support requirements in this Project were funded in PE 0602716E, Project ELT-01.
Justification
Accomplishments & Planned Programs (3)
Humboldt
The Humboldt program seeks to develop directed energy (DE) devices to produce disruptive effects in electronic systems. The devices have potential for dual-use as sources to characterize the susceptibility of commercial electronics to electromagnetic interference (EMI). Prior to FY 2026, this program was funded in PE 0602716E, Project ELT-01.
Sync
The Sync program will create systems to defend against uncrewed underwater vehicles (UUVs) entering U.S. harbors and ports. Sync is based on technologies developed in the Mobile Force Protection (MFP) program (budgeted in PE 0602702E, Project TT-04). Today's counter-UUV approaches rely on complex detection and localization methods to find the UUV prior to engagement. The Sync program will look at orthogonal approaches to solving this problem to defeat the UUV prior to detection. Sync will investigate several different approaches to defeat the UUV, starting with modeling and simulation eventually moving to hardware in the loop and pool testing. Prior to FY 2026, this program was funded in PE 0602716E, Project ELT-01.
Effects Studies and Concepts
The Effects Studies and Concepts examines emerging technologies and system concepts that employ either physical or non-physical means to degrade or deny targeted adversary capabilities. Topics under investigation include high pulsed power laser systems and design methodologies for effects-based technologies. The results from these studies and initiatives are used to formulate future programs.
Budget line items(workbook-cited)
P-1/R-1 workbook Total Obligation Authority basis (USD thousands) · PB2026.
Exhibit R-1
| Account | Org | Type | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide | DARPA | FY26 Disc. Request | $20.3M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide | DARPA | FY26 Total | $20.3M |
Budget Details(R-2/P-40 facts)
J-book detail basis (R-2/P-40, USD millions) · PB2026 — a different accounting basis from the P-1/R-1 workbook TOA above; where the two disagree, the reconciliation strip under Budget figures shows both.
Wider than this screen — swipe the table sideways for the remaining fiscal-year columns.
| Project | All Prior Years | FY24 Actuals | FY25 Total | FY26 Base | FY26 Request |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Program Element | $0 | $0 | $0 | $20.3M | $20.3M |
| EFF-01: EFFECTS | $0 | $0 | $0 | $19.1M | $19.1M |
| EFF-07: EFFECTS SUPPORT | $0 | $0 | $0 | $1.13M | $1.13M |
Follow the dollar
No follow-the-dollar view — this program's awards haven't been crosswalked at high confidence (flows cover 312 of 1,938 programs). why coverage is partial? →
Related awards
Award linkage is shown for 32 of 200 profiled companies — high- and medium-confidence USAspending matches, each row labeled; medium is the weaker evidence. why partial award coverage? →
Rows marked medium rest on evidence weaker than a program-level match, and of more than one kind. An account-based row, where the award drew from the same appropriation account as this program, is an association, not evidence that this program paid for the contract. Where the evidence is instead an FPDS acquisition-program tag or a subaward description, the program is established but which of its budget lines paid is not. An announcement link a recorded review did not leave standing is medium too. Only high rows rest on the contract naming this program with a recorded review upholding it and no recorded rejection or refutation applying.
| Recipient | PIID | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
| BAE SYSTEMS INFORMATION AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS INTEGRATION INC. | HR001119C0090 | medium |
| CHARLES RIVER ANALYTICS, INC. | HR001119C0116 | medium |
| GEOST, LLC | HR001118C0119 | medium |
| GINKGO BIOWORKS, INC. | HR001117C0092 | medium |
| L3 TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | HR001114C0047 | medium |
| RAYTHEON COMPANY | HR001115C0102 | medium |
| ROCKWELL COLLINS, INC. | HR001117C0116 | medium |
| RTX BBN TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | HR001115C0113 | medium |
| RTX BBN TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | HR001116C0058 | medium |
| RTX BBN TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | HR001118C0084 | medium |
| RTX BBN TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | HR001119C0029 | medium |
| RTX BBN TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | HR001119C0114 | medium |
| SIGNATURE SCIENCE LLC | HR001118C0109 | medium |
| TELEDYNE SCIENTIFIC & IMAGING, LLC | HR001116C0105 | medium |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | HR001119C0053 | medium |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | HR001119C0084 | medium |
Contractor concentration
No concentration index is published for this line. This line's high-confidence links do not clear the floor for a published concentration index — at least 3 awards across 2 contractor families holding positive obligations, with positive net linked dollars. An index below that floor is a fact about the sample, not about the market. Whatever further links this line carries are medium-confidence, and what each medium evidence path does and does not establish is set out in the methodology. Both bases are in the downloadable warehouse.
Lobbying mentions
No Senate LDA lobbying filing in the tracked data mentions this program element by code or alias.
Oversight
Department-level designation (not specific to this program)
GAO lists 5 high-risk areas for DOD as a whole. That designation covers the department, not Effects. No program-specific GAO finding for this line is in the ingested data. See the DOD oversight record.
Program dossier
No research dossier for this program — dossiers cover 50 of 1,938 programs, the largest fully J-book-detailed lines by FY2026 requested dollars. why no dossier here? →
Primary sources
Open any budget figure for its exact receipt. Verified line items lead with the highlighted government PDF; original spreadsheets download with their budget edition and exhibit in the filename.
Budget totals · TOA sources
FY2026 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · P864
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2026_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
Detailed budget justification
The related TOA spreadsheets above use a different accounting basis from R-2/P-40 detail. Their amounts are not assumed to match these detailed sources.
RDTE Vol1 DARPA MasterJustificationBook PB 2026 · comptroller.war.gov
PDF page 168