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Network C3I Advanced Technology
Budget Figures
FY2026 award data is a partial year — USASpending awards are reported on a rolling basis and the fiscal year does not close until September 30. why partial FY2026 data? →
- FY24
- $214.4M
- FY25
- $142.2M
- FY26
- $78.5M
● actuals (line) · ○ enacted · ◇ request — gaps are editions the program is absent from, never interpolated.
| Series | FY18 | FY19 | FY20 | FY21 | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actuals | $0 | $0 | $138.9M | $215.3M | $205.6M | $174.8M | $214.4M | ||
| Enacted | – | $0 | $142.9M | $216.5M | $211.1M | $177.9M | $105.5M | $142.2M | |
| Request | – | – | $106.9M | $158.6M | $155.9M | $125.6M | $105.5M | $94.4M | $78.5M |
blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.
Asked vs spent: the PB2024 book requested $105.5M for FY2024; the PB2026 book reports $214.4M actually spent — $108.8M above the request.
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 — Modular GPS Independent Sensors Advanced Tech
This Project matures and demonstrates a resilient, soldier-integrated precision navigation and timing solution, providing precision geolocation, geospatial survey information, global positioning system (GPS) spoofing awareness and countermeasures to dismounted warfighters in GPS-denied/degraded environments. It develops capabilities to enable open and flexible Position Navigation and Timing (PNT) systems architecture with unlimited data rights for the Army's dismounted systems. Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0602146A (Network C3I Technology) / Project AW1 (Autonomous Navigation Technology) and Program Element (PE) 0602141A (Lethality Technology) / Project CG4 (Advanced Radar Concepts and Technologies). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center and the Army Applications Laboratory.
Mission — Navigation Warfare (NAVWAR) Advanced Technology
This Project matures and demonstrates capabilities allowing the Army to monitor, understand, and control the Navigation Warfare (NAVWAR) environment. This requires an integrated approach to Electronic Protection (EP), Electronic Support (ES), and Electronic Attack (EA) to rapidly characterize the NAVWAR environment, deny Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) based capabilities to our adversaries, and maintain Army capabilities. Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0602146A (Network C3I Technology) / Project AW1 (Autonomous Navigation Technology). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center.
Mission — Pathfinder 3D Advanced Technology
This Project matures and demonstrates a geospatial rapid position and navigation solution in Global Positioning System (GPS) degraded and denied environments. Research focuses on using onboard sensors and high-resolution digital terrain geospatial alternative solution based upon Visual Three-Dimensional (3-D) Terrain Referencing and Navigation (VTRAN). This Project will result in the linkage of air and ground assets integrating sensory and (One World Terrain and Reference) geospatial data within the modular GPS Independent Sensors architecture. This Project provides critical alternatives to maneuver forces for position and navigation in a multi-domain operational environment. Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0602146A (Network C3I Technology) / Project CV4 (Pathfinder 3D Applied Technology). The work cited is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the United States Army Engineer Research and Development Center Geospatial Research Laboratory.
Mission — Assured PNT Communications Advanced Tech
This Project provides prototyping and development of Space-enabled and quantum technologies to support wide-area, responsive deep area sensing required for beyond line of sight (BLOS) targeting, significantly reducing Sensor to Shooter (S2S) timelines and increasing lethality and force protection. This Project provides Army forces access to commercial and National space assets and develops algorithms that process space and near space sensor data in real and near real time for integration into battlefield operating systems. The payoff of this work will be demonstrated advanced technologies for space-enabled capabilities for more secure, rapid communications, and deep target sensing for deep strike lethality, and freedom of maneuver. Work in this project complements Program Element (PE) 0602146A (Network C3I Technology) / Project CG3 (Assured PNT Communications Applied Research)/and Program Element (PE) 0602182A (C3I Applied Research) / Project CZ6 (Assured PNT Enabling Technologies). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the United States Army Space and Missile Defense Technical Center.
Mission — Mobile & Survivable Command Post (MASCP) Adv Tech
The Project matures and demonstrates technologies to support scalable, survivable, mobile Command Posts (CP). Technologies addressed will use the Brigade CP as a baseline while providing the opportunity for solutions to scale up or down to Army tactical echelons. Research in this Project includes integrating anti-jam (AJ) and low probability of intercept (LPI)/low probability of detection (LPD) communications focused on enabling the CP to disperse, form & reform, and employ technologies for signal remoting; optimizing power generation and storage for distributed CP operations; reducing computing infrastructure footprint, size, weight, and power (SWAP), manpower, and complexity; maturing technologies to reduce CP emissions and have situational awareness of those signatures to improve CP node employment; maturing electro-magnetic spectrum (EMS) emulation technologies to improve survivability options; and optimizing emerging electronic-textiles and composite materials for CP structures. Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0602146A (Network C3I Technology) / Project CI3 (Mobile and Survivable Command Post (MASCP) Tech). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Science and Technology focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center and Soldier Center (SC).
Mission — Geospatially Enabled Operational Design Adv Tech
This Project demonstrates, integrates and transitions to Mission Command Systems, a geospatially enabled collaborative planning environment, accessible across echelons, with capabilities that support Army Design Methodology (ADM) by providing the ability to perform conceptual planning and problem framing, supporting a greater understanding and visualization of the dynamic operational environment, a shared understanding of the operations purpose across echelons, and enhanced products to drive detailed budget planning and operational assessment processes, enhancing the collaborative interaction between commanders, staffs, and unified action partners. Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0602146A (Network C3I Technology) / Project AU3 (Geospatially Enabled Operational Design Technology). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the United States Army Engineer Research and Development Center Geospatial Research Laboratory and Information Technology Laboratory.
Mission — ELECTRONIC WARFARE ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES (CA)
Congressional Interest Item funding provided for Electronic Warfare Advanced Technologies. The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy.
Mission — Tactical GeoSpatial Information Capabilities ATech
This Project matures and demonstrates next generation geospatial analytical tools for three-dimensional (3D) complex environments applicable to low echelon and tactical edge exploitation. These new capabilities will allow deployed units to enhance/update provisioned (baseline) standard, sharable, geospatial foundation (SSGF) data through automated analytics on multi-sourced spatial data resulting in streamlined, high fidelity terrain analysis products. Reducing data gaps and processing timelines will greatly increase Soldier situational awareness and support faster decision making in complex terrain. Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0602146A Network C3I Technology / Project AT9 (Tactical GeoSpatial Information Capabilities Techn). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the United States Army Engineer Research and Development Center Geospatial Research Laboratory.
Mission — Network-Enabled GeoSpatial-GEOINT Services AdvTech
This Project accelerates and exploits the tactical value of emerging field generated, mission relevant 3-dimensional (3D) geospatial data supporting mission planning, mission rehearsal and tactical situational awareness. Integrates and demonstrates the geo-registration, feature extraction, change detection, data visualization and transmission capabilities developed in the applied research portion of this Project. Tools developed for the exploitation of 3D datasets will be integrated into a streamlined workflow requiring low levels of expertise, putting advanced processing capabilities in the hands of the Soldier. This Project also includes demonstrations of tactical enhancements and the integrated ability to rapidly share mission critical 3D information in support of planning and execution. Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0602146A (Network C3I Technology) / Project AT7 (Network-Enabled GeoSpatial and GEOINT Services Tech). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the United States Army Engineer Research and Development Center Geospatial Research Laboratory, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, and Information Technology Laboratory. .
Mission — Sensor CE-Integrated Sensor Architecture Adv Tech
This Project matures and demonstrates capabilities that enable and enhance sensor interoperability across disadvantaged and disparate networks.? It leverages and furthers the existing architectures consisting of standards, interfaces, and services. Enabling operationally relevant data to efficiently move across the network and ensures data is available for the Command & Control (C2) systems, integration into Tactical Operations Centers (TOC), ingestion into decision support aides and is actionable at the tactical edge. The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center.
Mission — EW for Maneuver Operations (EMO) Adv Tech
This Project matures and demonstrates distributed, coordinated Electromagnetic Warfare (EW) capabilities designed to extend effective range, reduce susceptibility to localization, and introduce errors into adversary Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance & Targeting (ISR&T) systems to facilitate multi-domain operations (MDO). This Project will mature Electromagnetic Warfare (EW) resources to mitigate Electromagnetic Protection (EP), against a finite set of threat capabilities, present in Anti-Access Area Denial (A2/AD) threats to achieve improved freedom of maneuver. Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0602146A (Network C3I Technology) / Project AP5 (Electronic Warfare Technology). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center.
Mission — UNT - Every Receiver is a Sensor Advanced Tech
This Project demonstrates high fidelity Cyber-Electromagnetic Activity (CEMA) situational understanding by exploiting tactical receivers with sufficient capabilities as sensors; optimizes real-time radio frequency mapping of the tactical environment in support of network operation and decision making; and mature counter-AI algorithms to enhance Army's SIGNINT platforms survivability against peer adversaries' smart weapon systems. This project will help the Army pace global electromagnetic spectrum technology advancements by maturing and demonstrating critical near peer signals intelligence (SIGINT) capabilities designed for the Army's size, weight, and power (SWaP)-constrained tactical edge. Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0602146A (Network C3I Technology) / Project AN9 (UNT - Every Receiver is a Sensor Technology) and Project AN7 (COE - Every Receiver is a Sensor Technology); and PE 0603463A (Network C3I Advanced Technology) / Project AN8 (COE Every Receiver is a Sensor Advanced Tech). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center.
Mission — Non Traditional Waveforms Advanced Technology
This Project demonstrates non-traditional waveforms and technologies for resilient communications in contested environments providing anti-jam, low probability of intercept, and low probability of detection for the dismounted and vehicular user. This Project also optimizes technologies not typically applied to the tactical environment, such as millimeter wave communications and directional networking with coherent combining of radio frequency signals, to maintain networked communications in and under contested and congested electromagnetic spectrum environments. Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0602146A (Network C3I Technology) / Project AN3 (Non Traditional Waveforms Technology) and Project AO4 (Energy Efficient Devices Technology). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center.
Mission — Protected SATCOM Advanced Technology
This Project matures and demonstrates technologies and components to increase resiliency of Wideband Satellite Communications (SATCOM) in contested and congested electromagnetic environments. This Project improves resiliency through science & technology investigation. This Project complements technologies that provide obfuscation of radio frequency (RF) spectrum signature in order to counter enemy electronic surveillance capabilities. Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0602146A (Network C3I Technology) / Projects AM8 (Protected SATCOM Technology). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center.
Mission — Modular RF Communications Advanced Technology
This Project matures developed techniques, methods, and standards for automation and intelligence to optimally broadcast data among available radio frequency (RF) and networking technologies. This Project will predict that a change in the network is needed and automatically make that change (transport, waveform mode, routing) prior to the network failing or being degraded. This Project provides a resilient transport agnostic network to the user. Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0602146A (Network C3I Technology) / Project AM6 (Modular RF Communications Technology). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center.
Mission — Network C3I Advanced Technology
This Program Element (PE) matures and demonstrates technologies to provide an Army tactical network and enabling infrastructure that support operations in any environment, to include where the electromagnetic spectrum is denied or degraded. This is accomplished through the exploitation and optimization of components and systems for robust, low signature communications and data networks; assured positioning, navigation, and timing in contested environments; converged and coordinated cyber and electronic warfare activities; resilient mission command on the move; and the collection, processing, and dissemination of information for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance in a common operating picture. Work in this PE complements PE 0602146A (Network C3I Technology), PE 0602143A (Soldier Lethality Technology), PE 0602145A (Next Generation Combat Vehicle Technology), PE 0602147A (Long Range Precision Fires Technology), PE 0602148A (Future Vertical Lift Technology), PE 0602150A (Air and Missile Defense Technology), PE 0602213A (C3I Applied Cyber), PE 0603118A (Soldier Lethality Advanced Technology), PE 0603462A (Next Generation Combat Vehicle Advanced Technology), PE 0603464A (Long Range Precision Fires Advanced Technology), PE 0603465A (Future Vertical Lift Advanced Technology), and PE 0603466A (Air and Missile Defense Advanced Technology). This PE is directly aligned with the Network and Assured Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (APNT) Army Modernization priorities. The cited research is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. Research is performed by the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC). The FY 2026 request was reduced by $6.818 million for Advisory and Assistance Services to promote efficiencies and advance the policies of the Administration in alignment with Executive Order 14222, "Implementing the President's Department of Government Efficiency Cost Efficiency Initiative." The FY 2026 request was reduced by $0.444 million for civilian personnel to optimize the workforce in compliance with Executive Order 14210, "Implementing the President's Department of Government Efficiency Workforce Optimization Initiative."
Mission — High Tempo Data Driven Decision Tools Adv Tech
This Project matures and demonstrates data driven decision tools that help develop Situational Understanding (SU) for Commanders. It enhances decision-making and accurately assesses and integrates cross-warfighting functional area impacts with all the domains in Multi-Domain Operations (MDO), and thereby enhances mission effectiveness by improving decision cycles. This Project matures and integrates methods to optimize the Army's Command and Control (C2) services and data architecture to strengthen data-driven decisions. Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0602146A (Network C3I Technology) / Project AQ7 (High Tempo Data Driven Decision Tools Technology). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center.
Mission — COE - Every Receiver is a Sensor Advanced Tech
This Project optimizes automated exploitation and fusion analysis tools, applications, and software services that harvest, correlate and fuse tactical receiver sources with new and emerging data sources to improve understanding of the threat picture and more efficiently support near-real time Situational Understanding of the battlefield. Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0603463A (Network C3I Advanced Technology) / Project AO1 (UNT - Every Receiver is a Sensor Advanced Tech) and PE 0602146A (Network C3I Technology) / Project AN7 (COE - Every Receiver is a Sensor Technology). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center.
Mission — Pathfinder 3D Advanced Technology
This Project matures and demonstrates a geospatial rapid position and navigation solution in Global Positioning System (GPS) degraded and denied environments. Research focuses on using onboard sensors and high-resolution digital terrain geospatial alternative solution based upon Visual Three-Dimensional (3-D) Terrain Referencing and Navigation (VTRAN). This Project will result in the linkage of air and ground assets integrating sensory and (One World Terrain and Reference) geospatial data within the modular GPS Independent Sensors architecture. This Project provides critical alternatives to maneuver forces for position and navigation in a multi-domain operational environment. Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0602146A (Network C3I Technology) / Project CV4 (Pathfinder 3D Applied Technology). The work cited is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the United States Army Engineer Research and Development Center Geospatial Research Laboratory.
Mission — Assured PNT Communications Advanced Tech
This Project provides prototyping and development of Space-enabled and quantum technologies to support wide-area, responsive deep area sensing required for beyond line of sight (BLOS) targeting, significantly reducing Sensor to Shooter (S2S) timelines and increasing lethality and force protection. This Project provides Army forces access to commercial and National space assets and develops algorithms that process space and near space sensor data in real and near real time for integration into battlefield operating systems. The payoff of this work will be demonstrated advanced technologies for space-enabled capabilities for more secure, rapid communications, and deep target sensing for deep strike lethality, and freedom of maneuver. Work in this project complements Program Element (PE) 0602146A (Network C3I Technology) / Project CG3 (Assured PNT Communications Applied Research)/and Program Element (PE) 0602182A (C3I Applied Research) / Project CZ6 (Assured PNT Enabling Technologies). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the United States Army Space and Missile Defense Technical Center.
Mission — Mobile & Survivable Command Post (MASCP) Adv Tech
The Project matures and demonstrates technologies to support scalable, survivable, mobile Command Posts (CP). Technologies addressed will use the Brigade CP as a baseline while providing the opportunity for solutions to scale up or down to Army tactical echelons. Research in this Project includes integrating anti-jam (AJ) and low probability of intercept (LPI)/low probability of detection (LPD) communications focused on enabling the CP to disperse, form & reform, and employ technologies for signal remoting; optimizing power generation and storage for distributed CP operations; reducing computing infrastructure footprint, size, weight, and power (SWAP), manpower, and complexity; maturing technologies to reduce CP emissions and have situational awareness of those signatures to improve CP node employment; maturing electro-magnetic spectrum (EMS) emulation technologies to improve survivability options; and optimizing emerging electronic-textiles and composite materials for CP structures. Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0602146A (Network C3I Technology) / Project CI3 (Mobile and Survivable Command Post (MASCP) Tech). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Science and Technology focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center and Soldier Center (SC).
Mission — ELECTRONIC WARFARE ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES (CA)
Congressional Interest Item funding provided for Electronic Warfare Advanced Technologies. The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy.
Mission — Modular GPS Independent Sensors Advanced Tech
This Project matures and demonstrates a resilient, soldier-integrated precision navigation and timing solution, providing precision geolocation, geospatial survey information, global positioning system (GPS) spoofing awareness and countermeasures to dismounted warfighters in GPS-denied/degraded environments. It develops capabilities to enable open and flexible Position Navigation and Timing (PNT) systems architecture with unlimited data rights for the Army's dismounted systems. Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0602146A (Network C3I Technology) / Project AW1 (Autonomous Navigation Technology) and Program Element (PE) 0602141A (Lethality Technology) / Project CG4 (Advanced Radar Concepts and Technologies). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center and the Army Applications Laboratory.
Mission — Navigation Warfare (NAVWAR) Advanced Technology
This Project matures and demonstrates capabilities allowing the Army to monitor, understand, and control the Navigation Warfare (NAVWAR) environment. This requires an integrated approach to Electronic Protection (EP), Electronic Support (ES), and Electronic Attack (EA) to rapidly characterize the NAVWAR environment, deny Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) based capabilities to our adversaries, and maintain Army capabilities. Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0602146A (Network C3I Technology) / Project AW1 (Autonomous Navigation Technology). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center.
Mission — Geospatially Enabled Operational Design Adv Tech
This Project demonstrates, integrates and transitions to Mission Command Systems, a geospatially enabled collaborative planning environment, accessible across echelons, with capabilities that support Army Design Methodology (ADM) by providing the ability to perform conceptual planning and problem framing, supporting a greater understanding and visualization of the dynamic operational environment, a shared understanding of the operations purpose across echelons, and enhanced products to drive detailed budget planning and operational assessment processes, enhancing the collaborative interaction between commanders, staffs, and unified action partners. Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0602146A (Network C3I Technology) / Project AU3 (Geospatially Enabled Operational Design Technology). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the United States Army Engineer Research and Development Center Geospatial Research Laboratory and Information Technology Laboratory.
Mission — Tactical GeoSpatial Information Capabilities ATech
This Project matures and demonstrates next generation geospatial analytical tools for three-dimensional (3D) complex environments applicable to low echelon and tactical edge exploitation. These new capabilities will allow deployed units to enhance/update provisioned (baseline) standard, sharable, geospatial foundation (SSGF) data through automated analytics on multi-sourced spatial data resulting in streamlined, high fidelity terrain analysis products. Reducing data gaps and processing timelines will greatly increase Soldier situational awareness and support faster decision making in complex terrain. Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0602146A Network C3I Technology / Project AT9 (Tactical GeoSpatial Information Capabilities Techn). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the United States Army Engineer Research and Development Center Geospatial Research Laboratory.
Mission — Network-Enabled GeoSpatial-GEOINT Services AdvTech
This Project accelerates and exploits the tactical value of emerging field generated, mission relevant 3-dimensional (3D) geospatial data supporting mission planning, mission rehearsal and tactical situational awareness. Integrates and demonstrates the geo-registration, feature extraction, change detection, data visualization and transmission capabilities developed in the applied research portion of this Project. Tools developed for the exploitation of 3D datasets will be integrated into a streamlined workflow requiring low levels of expertise, putting advanced processing capabilities in the hands of the Soldier. This Project also includes demonstrations of tactical enhancements and the integrated ability to rapidly share mission critical 3D information in support of planning and execution. Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0602146A (Network C3I Technology) / Project AT7 (Network-Enabled GeoSpatial and GEOINT Services Tech). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the United States Army Engineer Research and Development Center Geospatial Research Laboratory, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, and Information Technology Laboratory. .
Mission — High Tempo Data Driven Decision Tools Adv Tech
This Project matures and demonstrates data driven decision tools that help develop Situational Understanding (SU) for Commanders. It enhances decision-making and accurately assesses and integrates cross-warfighting functional area impacts with all the domains in Multi-Domain Operations (MDO), and thereby enhances mission effectiveness by improving decision cycles. This Project matures and integrates methods to optimize the Army's Command and Control (C2) services and data architecture to strengthen data-driven decisions. Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0602146A (Network C3I Technology) / Project AQ7 (High Tempo Data Driven Decision Tools Technology). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center.
Mission — Sensor CE-Integrated Sensor Architecture Adv Tech
This Project matures and demonstrates capabilities that enable and enhance sensor interoperability across disadvantaged and disparate networks.? It leverages and furthers the existing architectures consisting of standards, interfaces, and services. Enabling operationally relevant data to efficiently move across the network and ensures data is available for the Command & Control (C2) systems, integration into Tactical Operations Centers (TOC), ingestion into decision support aides and is actionable at the tactical edge. The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center.
Mission — EW for Maneuver Operations (EMO) Adv Tech
This Project matures and demonstrates distributed, coordinated Electromagnetic Warfare (EW) capabilities designed to extend effective range, reduce susceptibility to localization, and introduce errors into adversary Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance & Targeting (ISR&T) systems to facilitate multi-domain operations (MDO). This Project will mature Electromagnetic Warfare (EW) resources to mitigate Electromagnetic Protection (EP), against a finite set of threat capabilities, present in Anti-Access Area Denial (A2/AD) threats to achieve improved freedom of maneuver. Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0602146A (Network C3I Technology) / Project AP5 (Electronic Warfare Technology). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center.
Mission — UNT - Every Receiver is a Sensor Advanced Tech
This Project demonstrates high fidelity Cyber-Electromagnetic Activity (CEMA) situational understanding by exploiting tactical receivers with sufficient capabilities as sensors; optimizes real-time radio frequency mapping of the tactical environment in support of network operation and decision making; and mature counter-AI algorithms to enhance Army's SIGNINT platforms survivability against peer adversaries' smart weapon systems. This project will help the Army pace global electromagnetic spectrum technology advancements by maturing and demonstrating critical near peer signals intelligence (SIGINT) capabilities designed for the Army's size, weight, and power (SWaP)-constrained tactical edge. Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0602146A (Network C3I Technology) / Project AN9 (UNT - Every Receiver is a Sensor Technology) and Project AN7 (COE - Every Receiver is a Sensor Technology); and PE 0603463A (Network C3I Advanced Technology) / Project AN8 (COE Every Receiver is a Sensor Advanced Tech). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center.
Mission — COE - Every Receiver is a Sensor Advanced Tech
This Project optimizes automated exploitation and fusion analysis tools, applications, and software services that harvest, correlate and fuse tactical receiver sources with new and emerging data sources to improve understanding of the threat picture and more efficiently support near-real time Situational Understanding of the battlefield. Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0603463A (Network C3I Advanced Technology) / Project AO1 (UNT - Every Receiver is a Sensor Advanced Tech) and PE 0602146A (Network C3I Technology) / Project AN7 (COE - Every Receiver is a Sensor Technology). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center.
Mission — Non Traditional Waveforms Advanced Technology
This Project demonstrates non-traditional waveforms and technologies for resilient communications in contested environments providing anti-jam, low probability of intercept, and low probability of detection for the dismounted and vehicular user. This Project also optimizes technologies not typically applied to the tactical environment, such as millimeter wave communications and directional networking with coherent combining of radio frequency signals, to maintain networked communications in and under contested and congested electromagnetic spectrum environments. Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0602146A (Network C3I Technology) / Project AN3 (Non Traditional Waveforms Technology) and Project AO4 (Energy Efficient Devices Technology). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center.
Mission — Protected SATCOM Advanced Technology
This Project matures and demonstrates technologies and components to increase resiliency of Wideband Satellite Communications (SATCOM) in contested and congested electromagnetic environments. This Project improves resiliency through science & technology investigation. This Project complements technologies that provide obfuscation of radio frequency (RF) spectrum signature in order to counter enemy electronic surveillance capabilities. Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0602146A (Network C3I Technology) / Projects AM8 (Protected SATCOM Technology). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center.
Mission — Modular RF Communications Advanced Technology
This Project matures developed techniques, methods, and standards for automation and intelligence to optimally broadcast data among available radio frequency (RF) and networking technologies. This Project will predict that a change in the network is needed and automatically make that change (transport, waveform mode, routing) prior to the network failing or being degraded. This Project provides a resilient transport agnostic network to the user. Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0602146A (Network C3I Technology) / Project AM6 (Modular RF Communications Technology). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center.
Mission — Network C3I Advanced Technology
This Program Element (PE) matures and demonstrates technologies to provide an Army tactical network and enabling infrastructure that support operations in any environment, to include where the electromagnetic spectrum is denied or degraded. This is accomplished through the exploitation and optimization of components and systems for robust, low signature communications and data networks; assured positioning, navigation, and timing in contested environments; converged and coordinated cyber and electronic warfare activities; resilient mission command on the move; and the collection, processing, and dissemination of information for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance in a common operating picture. Work in this PE complements PE 0602146A (Network C3I Technology), PE 0602143A (Soldier Lethality Technology), PE 0602145A (Next Generation Combat Vehicle Technology), PE 0602147A (Long Range Precision Fires Technology), PE 0602148A (Future Vertical Lift Technology), PE 0602150A (Air and Missile Defense Technology), PE 0602213A (C3I Applied Cyber), PE 0603118A (Soldier Lethality Advanced Technology), PE 0603462A (Next Generation Combat Vehicle Advanced Technology), PE 0603464A (Long Range Precision Fires Advanced Technology), PE 0603465A (Future Vertical Lift Advanced Technology), and PE 0603466A (Air and Missile Defense Advanced Technology). This PE is directly aligned with the Network and Assured Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (APNT) Army Modernization priorities. The cited research is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. Research is performed by the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC). The FY 2026 request was reduced by $6.818 million for Advisory and Assistance Services to promote efficiencies and advance the policies of the Administration in alignment with Executive Order 14222, "Implementing the President's Department of Government Efficiency Cost Efficiency Initiative." The FY 2026 request was reduced by $0.444 million for civilian personnel to optimize the workforce in compliance with Executive Order 14210, "Implementing the President's Department of Government Efficiency Workforce Optimization Initiative."
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Soldier-Integrated Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT)
This effort implements a standards-based, open PNT architecture solution for rapid commercial of the shelf (COTS) and emerging technology integration; incorporates artificial intelligence approaches to aggregate multiple organic and networked sensor inputs for improved PNT accuracy and reliability; demonstrates Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) based-algorithms incorporating alternative PNT inputs; and demonstrates alternative PNT sensors and approaches, including radio frequency time differencing, signals of opportunity, inertial, gravimetric, and imagery.
Intelligent Electronic Protect (IEP) Advanced Technology
This effort matures and demonstrates hardware and software capabilities that will enable an Assured Position Navigation and Timing (APNT) system to function as a Navigation Warfare (NAVWAR) sensor. The IEP enabled APNT system will be able to detect and identify information about jamming and spoofing threats in the Global Positioning System (GPS) environment, protecting units from spoofing and increasing the number and availability of NAVWAR sensors in the field. The proliferation of NAVWAR sensors allows the Electronic Warfare Planning and Management Tool (EWPMT) to create a NAVWAR Common Operating Picture with greater accuracy and coverage, allowing Commanders to make more informed decisions about maneuver and allowing for more accurate and successful fires missions.
GEOInt Ops Integration of tactical operational and strategic orders
This effort will demonstrate a suite of automated tools designed to facilitate rapid and efficient dissemination of orders and real-time visibility of subordinate planning as it relates to key tasks from higher echelons and desired end state down to Battalion.
Automated intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield (IPB) Demonstrations
This effort develops and demonstrates a collaborative, adaptive planning capability that allows planners to employ resources leveraging geospatial, terrain, environmental effects, and authoritative data from distributed information databases in order to collaborate in the development and assessment of courses of action, visualize potential outcomes, make decisions and develop and disseminate plans and orders.
Suite Of Live Virtual constructive nEtworking tools (SOLVE)
This effort matures and demonstrates a forward-looking integrated suite of state-of-the-art Live, Virtual and Constructive Networking tools. These tools incorporate new capabilities that replicate realistic current and evolving tactical network conditions, facilitating the understanding of the resilience and reliability of diverse systems in a controlled and repeatable environment providing insights on how to effectively optimize the performance of future Army systems in complex electromagnetic environments.
Spectrum Superstorm
This effort matures commercial technical effects technology with an emphasis on blue force communications deconfliction, high fidelity pattern of life generation, and orchestration software. This effort provides the capability to create a radio frequency (RF) "smoke screen" for the network that will overwhelm adversary electronic support capability resulting in increased difficulty to find and fix targets based on their RF signature.? This capability has applications at Division and below and the CEMA cell efforts to create periods of spectrum dominance during the dominate phase of conflict.
PATHFINDER 3D Demonstration
This effort will demonstrate and integrate novel Visual Terrain Reference & Navigation (VTRAN) algorithms, onboard sensors, and 3-Dimensional digital terrain to derive position and orientation estimates and apply those to modular Position Navigation and Timing (PNT) integrators.
Multi-Function RF Applications Research
Will mature and demonstrate multi-function Radio Frequency (RF) systems for Army missions. Demonstrate a flexible configuration enabling multi-mission applications utilizing single or multi-antenna configurations. This effort will optimize the complex combinations of multi-antenna configurations, and multi-mission waveforms for enhancements to traditional sensor modalities such as radar, communications and other missions.
Next Generation Battle Systems Architecture and Infrastructure
This effort will mature next-generation command and control (NGC2) technology to enable commanders to effectively exercise command and control (C2) and to synchronize and manage combat power across all warfighting functions. This effort will demonstrate the ability to provide a real-time common operating picture to commanders at multiple echelons by providing a transformation in software delivery to meet the demands of modern warfighting utilizing the Platform as a Service (PaaS) model, optimizing common services in a composable, modular, and open architecture to rapidly meet stakeholder prioritized capabilities. This effort will demonstrate the ability to rapidly and effectively identify, optimize, and provide applications that incorporate real-time data while facilitating communications vertically and horizontally across the conflict arena.
Unified Data Reference Architecture (UDRA)
This effort develops and matures Data Mesh design principles, reference architectures, and framework to flatten and simplify the Army's data architecture for effective and efficient data driven decisions. The UDRA data mesh enables a shift from network and system centricity to data centricity by exchanging data in the form of Data Products which are decoupled from underlying systems.
Quantum Sensing
This effort matures quantum sensing technologies for application to Army missions and demonstrates capabilities to validate applications to the Army sensing missions.
Deep Sensing Technologies
This effort enables timely, resilient, and operationally relevant connectivity between aerial and space based assets, as well as mesh networks, to collect space-based intelligence information in support of deep sensing operations. The impact to the Army is improved and assured situational awareness, tipping and queuing of sensors, and support for long-range precision fires across multiple domains.
HAYFINS
This effort matures and demonstrates a ground-based system supporting Space and Autonomy Modernization priorities by fusing protection technologies with legacy systems that provide multi-modal capabilities to the Army to enhance freedom of maneuver supporting Multi-Domain Operations (MDO). This provides a tailored selection and application of multi-layered active and passive measures.
Assured Positioning Navigation and Timing (APNT) Communications Advanced Technology
This effort matures and demonstrates technologies required for smaller, more responsive and direct access to space and HA deep-sensing sensors and tactical communication capabilities for soldiers at the tactical edge. Research will augment, improve, exploit, and optimize existing commercial and Department of Defense (DoD) technologies and networks. This effort will validate software, hardware, and algorithms used to enable Space-Based and HA platform based capabilities in support of the Army's Modernization Priorities. This effort will exploit commercial advances and opportunities in integrating Space/ HA sensors or Deep Sensing capabilities and payload management toward future Army concepts. Develop/demonstrate critical technical elements for a LEO-based global high-speed network backbone enabling highly networked, resilient, and persistent DoD payloads to provide over the horizon sensing, signals, and communication, with continuous surveillance of ground, surface, and air domains.
Advanced Technology Supporting Camouflage, Concealment, and Deception
This effort demonstrates innovative camouflage, concealment and deception technologies, for expeditionary assets (i.e. mission command platforms, battle management centers and supporting equipment), in order to defeat advanced and emerging adversary Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) threats, and to reduce the probability of detection in multi-domain operations. Matures physics-based models for material and system performance that support probability of detection metrics in the multi-domain operational environment.
Signature Management and Reduction Advanced Technology
Provides advanced technologies to reduce and manage electromagnetic spectrum signatures of CP platforms and command post components.
CP Modularity and Dispersion Advanced Technology
Increases the ability for Commanders to move and disperse the Command Post (CP) through improved intra-CP communications, modular CP hardware to include distributed power systems, and network solutions leveraging open systems architectures to support information flow in distributed, intermittent, and latent (DIL) environments. This effort will eliminate centralized points of failure and critical nodes that constrain CP mobility and survivability. Areas of technology development include be distributed tactical cloud architecture, mesh network security architecture, high performance computing, integrated power, and distributed collaborative technologies.
Integration of intel and logistics Multi Echelon Planning
This effort demonstrates a suite of analytical and visualization tools designed to facilitate analysis of multiple courses of action through modeling and simulation (M&S) and wargames to support development of alternate Courses of Action (COAs) and approval of the operational plan.
Soldier Integrated Positioning Navigation and Timing - Modular Architecture & Integrated Demonstrators
This effort optimizes, improves, and demonstrates the modular architecture for PNT capabilities; matures and integrates alternative PNT sensors modules, including signals of opportunity, inertial, barometric, vision-based navigation modules; matures, integrates, demonstrates and validates a final Modular Handheld; integrates and demonstrates PNT technologies with interfacing Soldier systems. Results from this effort will be a fused PNT solution that will operate in a GPS denied environment.
Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Optimization for Multi-Domain Operations Support Advanced Tech
This effort will use automated threat process to focus sensor collection requirements. Collection plans are to be synchronized across echelons optimizing scheduling and placement of sensor assets from both national and joint capabilities. Effort enables cooperative multi-sensor, multi-intelligence (INT) collection orchestrations by leveraging All Domain Overhead Collection Operations (AOCO) family of standards. Effort develops prototype software to demonstrate autonomous cross cue of multi-INT sensors and analytics.
Quantum Sensing
This effort demonstrates the use of novel quantum-enhanced spectral receivers capable of wideband sensing of extremely low power signals at very large standoff distances. This effort matures quantum component technologies for use in very sensitive receivers. This effort designs and develops tactically relevant quantum sensors, considering form-factor, size, weight, power, and receiver performance.
Protected SATCOM Advanced Technology and Resilient Tactial Networking and Comms
This effort matures and demonstrates technologies and components to increase resiliency of Wideband SATCOM in contested and congested electromagnetic environments. This effort improves resiliency through science & technology investigation. Will complement technologies that provide obfuscation of RF spectrum signature in order to counter enemy electronic surveillance capabilities.
Optimized Rendition of the Build Environment Demonstration
This effort supports mission training, planning and execution through optimized workflows effectively rendering the local built urban 3D environment. More specifically, this effort aims to balance and optimize key enduring metrics supported by shared community requirements (e.g. file sizes, file formats, visual/special quality, attribution/functionality, timelines, automation and ease of use). Further, this effort aims to add geospecific interior and subterranean spaces (via organic Soldier sensing capabilities) to the foundational and/or One World Terrain (OWT) datasets (facilitating enriched high resolution 3D urban terrain and tactical overlays, and assessment for changed conditions). Payoffs include (1) enabling capabilities such as exterior-to-interior routing planning, interior navigation (by soldier or robots), and urban-scale mission planning and rehearsal, and (2) S&T to inform future requirements for tactical visualization, mission planning devices and training simulators.
Geospatial Analytics and Prediction Demonstration
This effort integrates and demonstrates automated/semi-automated geospatial tools implementing spatial/temporal data analysis, creation of predictive scenarios, anomaly detection and cross-scale and local-scale analysis of terrain.
Terrain & Battlefield Computing Optimized Network Compute Resources Demo
This effort integrates and demonstrates the Army's network ability to provide appropriate resources for geospatial data to include tools that require a wide range of data volumes (from low to very heavy), and as a consequence, may incur significant computational costs. The goal is to demonstrate a simulation testbed for geospatial tools under different network configurations and application scenarios. The simulation testbed will measure and inform network requirements that can accommodate geospatial products downstream and as far out as necessary.
Geospatially Relevant Intuitive Propagation Services for Complex Environments Demonstration
This effort matures and demonstrates a novel expert propagation framework for assessing sensor performance in complex terrain, with integrated battlefield sensor data and environmental predictive modeling (weather and terrain influences) into intuitive displays for analysts, planners, and collection managers. The resulting technology will optimize collection asset employment against adversaries as well as providing situational awareness of friendly units', multi-modal signature footprint (e.g. radio frequency, thermal, acoustic). This effort will significantly reduce the analyst cognitive load, and fill an important need for fused, validated, environment and terrain-aware analyses for multi-modal sensors in support of C2, Intelligence and Protection Warfighting Functions.
Geospatial - Intelligence Community Merge Demonstration
This effort matures an approach to automatically search Intelligence Community (IC) databases to discover and extract relevant attributes to be added as new metadata to adaptively scaled 3D terrain features and/or geographic areas. Geospatial and relevant intelligence data will be merged together, discoverable, and capable of user-selected query from a single computing environment. An enhanced 3D common operating picture will be demonstrated providing a more comprehensive understanding of the Operational Environment for greater situational awareness and decision making.
Optimization of Geospatial Data for Tactical Visualization-Demonstration
This effort matures and demonstrates new open source software, data models and processes to generate a vision based geospatial foundation layer to enable end-users systems to visualize real-time mission critical geospatial content at the required level-of-detail (LOD) and enable position-navigation self-localization capability applicable to end-user devices at required accuracies optimized for the device, application, and mission.
Absolute Positioning Enabled by Resilient Tactical UseR Equipment (APERTURE) Advanced Tech
This effort matures and demonstrates techniques and algorithms that will enhance non-radio frequency (RF) positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) technologies. It employs sensing of physical?phenomena properties correlated with a priori map and?imagery data, and the application of emerging solutions to enable position localization and initialization in the absence of GPS. This effort validates a means of producing a?reliable, assured position and time solution in identifiable environments, independent of RF based sources. It will demonstrate absolute positioning sensors and initialization algorithms incorporated?into a GPS-free PNT technology demonstrator.
Sensor CE - Integrated Sensor Architecture
This effort matures and demonstrates an agile and adaptive interoperability sensor architecture that allows a system to dynamically discover and leverage other systems on a network without any specific or prior knowledge across limited, heterogeneous resources and against a peer adversary. The goal of this effort is to develop standards, models, and protocols that provide a common language for sensor systems to connect, publish their capabilities and needs, and interact with other systems, even on disadvantaged networks. The benefits of this effort are increased sensor collaboration, reduced decision timelines, reduced soldier load, and reduced integration costs.
Tactical Force Signature Effects (TForSE) Advanced Technology - Counter ISR Techniques
This effort matures and demonstrates Electromagnetic Warfare capabilities against adversary counter-fire sensors and Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) systems leveraging high fidelity hardware-in-the-loop, modeling and simulation (M&S), and representative systems.
Multi-Function RF and Deep Sensing
This effort develops advanced, converged multi-function radio frequency (RF) sensor technology needed for next generation aerial Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR). This effort significantly enhances detection, localization, identification, and tracking capabilities for targeting disadvantaged emitters and ground targets at long range while operating in contested environments.
Army SIGINT Modernization Advanced Technology
This effort will mature and demonstrate radio frequency (RF) signal analysis and processing techniques that automate detection, identification, and exploitation of high priority peer/near-peer adversary military signals, significantly increasing autonomous detection and exploitation of priority signals of interest. The effort will improve robustness against realistic congested RF environments and will optimize for size, weight, and power constrained tactical edge environments.
Multi Int Modernization Combined Architecture (MIMCA) Advanced Technology
This effort develops technologies and methodologies to overcome the interference experienced in current co- located, multifunction systems that hinders the efficient, effective execution of simultaneous Electronic Warfare (EW), signals intelligence and cyber missions. This effort will improve resourcing, scheduling and collaboration so that sensor systems can self- optimize, identify spectrum conflicts, and fully utilize all available assets to enable simultaneous use of the spectrum on a threat dense battlefield.
Relay for Aerial to Non-line-of-sight Ground Environments (RANGE)
This effort matures and demonstrates as next-generation aerial communications relay payloads to maintain communications coverage in Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) environments. The technology will provide flexibility to enable the communications relay to support both currently fielded radios and emerging/future radios including those with anti-jam and low probability of detection capabilities.
Multi-Orbit Modem (MOM) Advanced Technology
This effort matures, optimizes and demonstrates Satellite Communications (SATCOM) ground terminal modem and management technology components to enable operation over multiple satellite constellations to increase performance and resiliency of wideband SATCOM in contested and congested electromagnetic environments. Modem components will include a software based terminal controller for modem management, repository of modem waveforms, and supporting network management. This effort develops resiliency through a flexible modem technology investigation and is complementary with Protected SATCOM efforts focused on antenna development.
Predictive Intelligent Networking Adv Tech
This effort matures and demonstrates methods to enable the tactical network with artificial intelligence (AI) to autonomously identify, learn, predict, and react to changes in network operating conditions and threats to ensure end-to-end network resiliency against adversarial AI-driven electronic attacks (EA), electronic warfare (EW), and cyberattacks.
RoadRunner Advanced Technology
This effort matures and demonstrates stakeholder prioritized capabilities that fuse intel and ops perspectives that drive decisions to enable dominance in complex Multi-Domain Operations. Effort will deliver applications which improve command post warfighter functions through information and decision dominance. Proposals are selected in budget year and year of execution to meet stakeholder prioritized capabilities.
Virtual Orchestration of Kinetic Non-Kinetic Targeting Advanced Technology
This effort will provide Army Commanders the full range of multi-domain options by integrating kinetic and non-kinetic targeting and effects into the mission execution and mission planning cycles. Effort will develop software tools to augment the kinetic targeting process, to include non-kinetic engagement.
Extremely High Bandwidth Communications (ExHiBComms)
This effort further develops communication systems capable of 100X today's data rates while providing spatial low probability of intercept and low probability of detection to the links due to extremely high frequencies of operation. This effort will generate two products: Free Space Optics (FSO) and access points supporting multiple users with extremely high bandwidth. ExHibComm will target on-the-move ground links, but it can support ground to air, ground to space, air to air and air to space applications, enabling multi domain operations. ExHiBComm solves the challenge of spectrum scarcity and enables links anywhere in the world without the need of frequency clearances.
Optimized Rendition of the Build Environment Demonstration
This effort supports mission training, planning and execution through optimized workflows effectively rendering the local built urban 3D environment. More specifically, this effort aims to balance and optimize key enduring metrics supported by shared community requirements (e.g. file sizes, file formats, visual/special quality, attribution/functionality, timelines, automation and ease of use). Further, this effort aims to add geospecific interior and subterranean spaces (via organic Soldier sensing capabilities) to the foundational and/or One World Terrain (OWT) datasets (facilitating enriched high resolution 3D urban terrain and tactical overlays, and assessment for changed conditions). Payoffs include (1) enabling capabilities such as exterior-to-interior routing planning, interior navigation (by soldier or robots), and urban-scale mission planning and rehearsal, and (2) S&T to inform future requirements for tactical visualization, mission planning devices and training simulators.
Multi-Function RF Applications Research
Will mature and demonstrate multi-function Radio Frequency (RF) systems for Army missions. Demonstrate a flexible configuration enabling multi-mission applications utilizing single or multi-antenna configurations. This effort will optimize the complex combinations of multi-antenna configurations, and multi-mission waveforms for enhancements to traditional sensor modalities such as radar, communications and other missions.
Quantum Sensing
This effort matures quantum sensing technologies for application to Army missions and demonstrates capabilities to validate applications to the Army sensing missions.
Deep Sensing Technologies
This effort enables timely, resilient, and operationally relevant connectivity between aerial and space based assets, as well as mesh networks, to collect space-based intelligence information in support of deep sensing operations. The impact to the Army is improved and assured situational awareness, tipping and queuing of sensors, and support for long-range precision fires across multiple domains.
HAYFINS
This effort matures and demonstrates a ground-based system supporting Space and Autonomy Modernization priorities by fusing protection technologies with legacy systems that provide multi-modal capabilities to the Army to enhance freedom of maneuver supporting Multi-Domain Operations (MDO). This provides a tailored selection and application of multi-layered active and passive measures.
Assured Positioning Navigation and Timing (APNT) Communications Advanced Technology
This effort matures and demonstrates technologies required for smaller, more responsive and direct access to space and HA deep-sensing sensors and tactical communication capabilities for soldiers at the tactical edge. Research will augment, improve, exploit, and optimize existing commercial and Department of Defense (DoD) technologies and networks. This effort will validate software, hardware, and algorithms used to enable Space-Based and HA platform based capabilities in support of the Army's Modernization Priorities. This effort will exploit commercial advances and opportunities in integrating Space/ HA sensors or Deep Sensing capabilities and payload management toward future Army concepts. Develop/demonstrate critical technical elements for a LEO-based global high-speed network backbone enabling highly networked, resilient, and persistent DoD payloads to provide over the horizon sensing, signals, and communication, with continuous surveillance of ground, surface, and air domains.
Advanced Technology Supporting Camouflage, Concealment, and Deception
This effort demonstrates innovative camouflage, concealment and deception technologies, for expeditionary assets (i.e. mission command platforms, battle management centers and supporting equipment), in order to defeat advanced and emerging adversary Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) threats, and to reduce the probability of detection in multi-domain operations. Matures physics-based models for material and system performance that support probability of detection metrics in the multi-domain operational environment.
Signature Management and Reduction Advanced Technology
Provides advanced technologies to reduce and manage electromagnetic spectrum signatures of CP platforms and command post components.
CP Modularity and Dispersion Advanced Technology
Increases the ability for Commanders to move and disperse the Command Post (CP) through improved intra-CP communications, modular CP hardware to include distributed power systems, and network solutions leveraging open systems architectures to support information flow in distributed, intermittent, and latent (DIL) environments. This effort will eliminate centralized points of failure and critical nodes that constrain CP mobility and survivability. Areas of technology development include be distributed tactical cloud architecture, mesh network security architecture, high performance computing, integrated power, and distributed collaborative technologies.
Absolute Positioning Enabled by Resilient Tactical UseR Equipment (APERTURE) Advanced Tech
This effort matures and demonstrates techniques and algorithms that will enhance non-radio frequency (RF) positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) technologies. It employs sensing of physical?phenomena properties correlated with a priori map and?imagery data, and the application of emerging solutions to enable position localization and initialization in the absence of GPS. This effort validates a means of producing a?reliable, assured position and time solution in identifiable environments, independent of RF based sources. It will demonstrate absolute positioning sensors and initialization algorithms incorporated?into a GPS-free PNT technology demonstrator.
Soldier Integrated Positioning Navigation and Timing - Modular Architecture & Integrated Demonstrators
This effort optimizes, improves, and demonstrates the modular architecture for PNT capabilities; matures and integrates alternative PNT sensors modules, including signals of opportunity, inertial, barometric, vision-based navigation modules; matures, integrates, demonstrates and validates a final Modular Handheld; integrates and demonstrates PNT technologies with interfacing Soldier systems. Results from this effort will be a fused PNT solution that will operate in a GPS denied environment.
Soldier-Integrated Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT)
This effort implements a standards-based, open PNT architecture solution for rapid commercial of the shelf (COTS) and emerging technology integration; incorporates artificial intelligence approaches to aggregate multiple organic and networked sensor inputs for improved PNT accuracy and reliability; demonstrates Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) based-algorithms incorporating alternative PNT inputs; and demonstrates alternative PNT sensors and approaches, including radio frequency time differencing, signals of opportunity, inertial, gravimetric, and imagery.
Intelligent Electronic Protect (IEP) Advanced Technology
This effort matures and demonstrates hardware and software capabilities that will enable an Assured Position Navigation and Timing (APNT) system to function as a Navigation Warfare (NAVWAR) sensor. The IEP enabled APNT system will be able to detect and identify information about jamming and spoofing threats in the Global Positioning System (GPS) environment, protecting units from spoofing and increasing the number and availability of NAVWAR sensors in the field. The proliferation of NAVWAR sensors allows the Electronic Warfare Planning and Management Tool (EWPMT) to create a NAVWAR Common Operating Picture with greater accuracy and coverage, allowing Commanders to make more informed decisions about maneuver and allowing for more accurate and successful fires missions.
Automated intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield (IPB) Demonstrations
This effort develops and demonstrates a collaborative, adaptive planning capability that allows planners to employ resources leveraging geospatial, terrain, environmental effects, and authoritative data from distributed information databases in order to collaborate in the development and assessment of courses of action, visualize potential outcomes, make decisions and develop and disseminate plans and orders.
Integration of intel and logistics Multi Echelon Planning
This effort demonstrates a suite of analytical and visualization tools designed to facilitate analysis of multiple courses of action through modeling and simulation (M&S) and wargames to support development of alternate Courses of Action (COAs) and approval of the operational plan.
Geospatial Analytics and Prediction Demonstration
This effort integrates and demonstrates automated/semi-automated geospatial tools implementing spatial/temporal data analysis, creation of predictive scenarios, anomaly detection and cross-scale and local-scale analysis of terrain.
Terrain & Battlefield Computing Optimized Network Compute Resources Demo
This effort integrates and demonstrates the Army's network ability to provide appropriate resources for geospatial data to include tools that require a wide range of data volumes (from low to very heavy), and as a consequence, may incur significant computational costs. The goal is to demonstrate a simulation testbed for geospatial tools under different network configurations and application scenarios. The simulation testbed will measure and inform network requirements that can accommodate geospatial products downstream and as far out as necessary.
Geospatially Relevant Intuitive Propagation Services for Complex Environments Demonstration
This effort matures and demonstrates a novel expert propagation framework for assessing sensor performance in complex terrain, with integrated battlefield sensor data and environmental predictive modeling (weather and terrain influences) into intuitive displays for analysts, planners, and collection managers. The resulting technology will optimize collection asset employment against adversaries as well as providing situational awareness of friendly units', multi-modal signature footprint (e.g. radio frequency, thermal, acoustic). This effort will significantly reduce the analyst cognitive load, and fill an important need for fused, validated, environment and terrain-aware analyses for multi-modal sensors in support of C2, Intelligence and Protection Warfighting Functions.
Geospatial - Intelligence Community Merge Demonstration
This effort matures an approach to automatically search Intelligence Community (IC) databases to discover and extract relevant attributes to be added as new metadata to adaptively scaled 3D terrain features and/or geographic areas. Geospatial and relevant intelligence data will be merged together, discoverable, and capable of user-selected query from a single computing environment. An enhanced 3D common operating picture will be demonstrated providing a more comprehensive understanding of the Operational Environment for greater situational awareness and decision making.
Quantum Sensing
This effort demonstrates the use of novel quantum-enhanced spectral receivers capable of wideband sensing of extremely low power signals at very large standoff distances. This effort matures quantum component technologies for use in very sensitive receivers. This effort designs and develops tactically relevant quantum sensors, considering form-factor, size, weight, power, and receiver performance.
Tactical Force Signature Effects (TForSE) Advanced Technology - Counter ISR Techniques
This effort matures and demonstrates Electromagnetic Warfare capabilities against adversary counter-fire sensors and Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) systems leveraging high fidelity hardware-in-the-loop, modeling and simulation (M&S), and representative systems.
PATHFINDER 3D Demonstration
This effort will demonstrate and integrate novel Visual Terrain Reference & Navigation (VTRAN) algorithms, onboard sensors, and 3-Dimensional digital terrain to derive position and orientation estimates and apply those to modular Position Navigation and Timing (PNT) integrators.
Suite Of Live Virtual constructive nEtworking tools (SOLVE)
This effort matures and demonstrates a forward-looking integrated suite of state-of-the-art Live, Virtual and Constructive Networking tools. These tools incorporate new capabilities that replicate realistic current and evolving tactical network conditions, facilitating the understanding of the resilience and reliability of diverse systems in a controlled and repeatable environment providing insights on how to effectively optimize the performance of future Army systems in complex electromagnetic environments.
Next Generation Battle Systems Architecture and Infrastructure
This effort will mature next-generation command and control (NGC2) technology to enable commanders to effectively exercise command and control (C2) and to synchronize and manage combat power across all warfighting functions. This effort will demonstrate the ability to provide a real-time common operating picture to commanders at multiple echelons by providing a transformation in software delivery to meet the demands of modern warfighting utilizing the Platform as a Service (PaaS) model, optimizing common services in a composable, modular, and open architecture to rapidly meet stakeholder prioritized capabilities. This effort will demonstrate the ability to rapidly and effectively identify, optimize, and provide applications that incorporate real-time data while facilitating communications vertically and horizontally across the conflict arena.
Unified Data Reference Architecture (UDRA)
This effort develops and matures Data Mesh design principles, reference architectures, and framework to flatten and simplify the Army's data architecture for effective and efficient data driven decisions. The UDRA data mesh enables a shift from network and system centricity to data centricity by exchanging data in the form of Data Products which are decoupled from underlying systems.
RoadRunner Advanced Technology
This effort matures and demonstrates stakeholder prioritized capabilities that fuse intel and ops perspectives that drive decisions to enable dominance in complex Multi-Domain Operations. Effort will deliver applications which improve command post warfighter functions through information and decision dominance. Proposals are selected in budget year and year of execution to meet stakeholder prioritized capabilities.
Sensor CE - Integrated Sensor Architecture
This effort matures and demonstrates an agile and adaptive interoperability sensor architecture that allows a system to dynamically discover and leverage other systems on a network without any specific or prior knowledge across limited, heterogeneous resources and against a peer adversary. The goal of this effort is to develop standards, models, and protocols that provide a common language for sensor systems to connect, publish their capabilities and needs, and interact with other systems, even on disadvantaged networks. The benefits of this effort are increased sensor collaboration, reduced decision timelines, reduced soldier load, and reduced integration costs.
Multi-Function RF and Deep Sensing
This effort develops advanced, converged multi-function radio frequency (RF) sensor technology needed for next generation aerial Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR). This effort significantly enhances detection, localization, identification, and tracking capabilities for targeting disadvantaged emitters and ground targets at long range while operating in contested environments.
Army SIGINT Modernization Advanced Technology
This effort will mature and demonstrate radio frequency (RF) signal analysis and processing techniques that automate detection, identification, and exploitation of high priority peer/near-peer adversary military signals, significantly increasing autonomous detection and exploitation of priority signals of interest. The effort will improve robustness against realistic congested RF environments and will optimize for size, weight, and power constrained tactical edge environments.
Multi Int Modernization Combined Architecture (MIMCA) Advanced Technology
This effort develops technologies and methodologies to overcome the interference experienced in current co- located, multifunction systems that hinders the efficient, effective execution of simultaneous Electronic Warfare (EW), signals intelligence and cyber missions. This effort will improve resourcing, scheduling and collaboration so that sensor systems can self- optimize, identify spectrum conflicts, and fully utilize all available assets to enable simultaneous use of the spectrum on a threat dense battlefield.
Virtual Orchestration of Kinetic Non-Kinetic Targeting Advanced Technology
This effort will provide Army Commanders the full range of multi-domain options by integrating kinetic and non-kinetic targeting and effects into the mission execution and mission planning cycles. Effort will develop software tools to augment the kinetic targeting process, to include non-kinetic engagement.
Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Optimization for Multi-Domain Operations Support Advanced Tech
This effort will use automated threat process to focus sensor collection requirements. Collection plans are to be synchronized across echelons optimizing scheduling and placement of sensor assets from both national and joint capabilities. Effort enables cooperative multi-sensor, multi-intelligence (INT) collection orchestrations by leveraging All Domain Overhead Collection Operations (AOCO) family of standards. Effort develops prototype software to demonstrate autonomous cross cue of multi-INT sensors and analytics.
Extremely High Bandwidth Communications (ExHiBComms)
This effort further develops communication systems capable of 100X today's data rates while providing spatial low probability of intercept and low probability of detection to the links due to extremely high frequencies of operation. This effort will generate two products: Free Space Optics (FSO) and access points supporting multiple users with extremely high bandwidth. ExHibComm will target on-the-move ground links, but it can support ground to air, ground to space, air to air and air to space applications, enabling multi domain operations. ExHiBComm solves the challenge of spectrum scarcity and enables links anywhere in the world without the need of frequency clearances.
Relay for Aerial to Non-line-of-sight Ground Environments (RANGE)
This effort matures and demonstrates as next-generation aerial communications relay payloads to maintain communications coverage in Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) environments. The technology will provide flexibility to enable the communications relay to support both currently fielded radios and emerging/future radios including those with anti-jam and low probability of detection capabilities.
Multi-Orbit Modem (MOM) Advanced Technology
This effort matures, optimizes and demonstrates Satellite Communications (SATCOM) ground terminal modem and management technology components to enable operation over multiple satellite constellations to increase performance and resiliency of wideband SATCOM in contested and congested electromagnetic environments. Modem components will include a software based terminal controller for modem management, repository of modem waveforms, and supporting network management. This effort develops resiliency through a flexible modem technology investigation and is complementary with Protected SATCOM efforts focused on antenna development.
Protected SATCOM Advanced Technology and Resilient Tactial Networking and Comms
This effort matures and demonstrates technologies and components to increase resiliency of Wideband SATCOM in contested and congested electromagnetic environments. This effort improves resiliency through science & technology investigation. Will complement technologies that provide obfuscation of RF spectrum signature in order to counter enemy electronic surveillance capabilities.
Predictive Intelligent Networking Adv Tech
This effort matures and demonstrates methods to enable the tactical network with artificial intelligence (AI) to autonomously identify, learn, predict, and react to changes in network operating conditions and threats to ensure end-to-end network resiliency against adversarial AI-driven electronic attacks (EA), electronic warfare (EW), and cyberattacks.
Spectrum Superstorm
This effort matures commercial technical effects technology with an emphasis on blue force communications deconfliction, high fidelity pattern of life generation, and orchestration software. This effort provides the capability to create a radio frequency (RF) "smoke screen" for the network that will overwhelm adversary electronic support capability resulting in increased difficulty to find and fix targets based on their RF signature.? This capability has applications at Division and below and the CEMA cell efforts to create periods of spectrum dominance during the dominate phase of conflict.
GEOInt Ops Integration of tactical operational and strategic orders
This effort will demonstrate a suite of automated tools designed to facilitate rapid and efficient dissemination of orders and real-time visibility of subordinate planning as it relates to key tasks from higher echelons and desired end state down to Battalion.
Optimization of Geospatial Data for Tactical Visualization-Demonstration
This effort matures and demonstrates new open source software, data models and processes to generate a vision based geospatial foundation layer to enable end-users systems to visualize real-time mission critical geospatial content at the required level-of-detail (LOD) and enable position-navigation self-localization capability applicable to end-user devices at required accuracies optimized for the device, application, and mission.
Budget Line Items(workbook-cited)
Exhibit R-1
| Account | Org | Type | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army | A | FY24 Actuals | $214.4M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army | A | FY25 Enacted | $142.2M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army | A | FY25 Total | $142.2M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army | A | FY26 Disc. Request | $78.5M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army | A | FY26 Total | $78.5M |
Budget Details(R-2/P-40 facts)
| Project | FY24 Actuals | FY25 Total | FY26 Base | FY26 Request |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DB6: Pathfinder 3D Advanced Technology | $1.01M | — | $1.33M | $1.33M |
| AM7: Modular RF Communications Advanced Technology | — | $1.99M | $2.42M | $2.42M |
| AU1: Tactical GeoSpatial Information Capabilities ATech | $2.04M | $2.72M | $3.42M | $3.42M |
| AU4: Geospatially Enabled Operational Design Adv Tech | $10.9M | $10.8M | $3.49M | $3.49M |
| AO1: UNT - Every Receiver is a Sensor Advanced Tech | $3.05M | $4.18M | $3.49M | $3.49M |
| AW6: Modular GPS Independent Sensors Advanced Tech | $8.30M | $11.3M | $4.92M | $4.92M |
| CJ8: Assured PNT Communications Advanced Tech | $11.6M | $13.4M | $5.14M | $5.14M |
| AT8: Network-Enabled GeoSpatial-GEOINT Services AdvTech | $4.59M | $3.76M | $6.19M | $6.19M |
| AN4: Non Traditional Waveforms Advanced Technology | $5.13M | $17.5M | $7.80M | $7.80M |
| AM9: Protected SATCOM Advanced Technology | $13.7M | $5.51M | $10.6M | $10.6M |
| CI7: Mobile & Survivable Command Post (MASCP) Adv Tech | $15.7M | $9.98M | $11.5M | $11.5M |
| AQ8: High Tempo Data Driven Decision Tools Adv Tech | $27.1M | $3.79M | $18.2M | $18.2M |
| Program Element | $214.4M | $142.2M | $78.5M | $78.5M |
| AV8: Navigation Warfare (NAVWAR) Advanced Technology | $5.90M | $3.99M | — | — |
| AN8: COE - Every Receiver is a Sensor Advanced Tech | $6.37M | $5.48M | — | — |
| BP4: ELECTRONIC WARFARE ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES (CA) | $94.0M | $47.8M | — | — |
| AQ5: Sensor CE-Integrated Sensor Architecture Adv Tech | $1.93M | — | — | — |
| AO7: EW for Maneuver Operations (EMO) Adv Tech | $3.11M | — | — | — |
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