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Air and Missile Defense Advanced Technology

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What it is
Air and Missile Defense Advanced Technology (0603466A) is an Army research & development line funded in the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army account. Its J-book detail breaks the line into 5 projects.
What changed
-$38.0M FY25→26 R-1 TOA · PB2026
Who gets it
No award linkage at high confidence.

Budget Figures

FY24 Actuals
$98.8MR-1 TOA · PB2026
FY25 Total
$61.3MR-1 TOA · PB2026
FY26 Request
$23.3MR-1 TOA · PB2026
FY25→26 Change
-$38.0MR-1 TOA · PB2026

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? →

Budget Trajectory
The program's 3 summary figures for FY24 to FY26, plotted in fiscal-year order so the direction of travel is readable at a glance: this line ends lower than it starts. The points are the summary cards above, not a separate derivation; the table beside the chart carries each figure with its own citation.
The program's 3 summary figures for FY24 to FY26, plotted in fiscal-year order so the direction of travel is readable at a glance: this line ends lower than it starts. The points are the summary cards above, not a separate derivation; the table beside the chart carries each figure with its own citation.FY24: $98.8MFY25: $61.3MFY26: $23.3MFY24FY25FY26
Budget trajectory: one row per fiscal year, carrying the summary figure the sparkline plots. Every figure opens its own citation.
Fiscal yearAmount
FY24$98.8M
FY25$61.3M
FY26$23.3M

All series figures: R-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
9 fiscal years of this program as published (FY2018–FY2026): a line through the actuals (filled dots), with the enacted (hollow circles) and request (diamonds) markers each edition reported. Read it for direction, not for precision — this program's actuals line rises across the span. The grid below is the same data as text, one cited figure per cell.
9 fiscal years of this program as published (FY2018–FY2026): a line through the actuals (filled dots), with the enacted (hollow circles) and request (diamonds) markers each edition reported. Read it for direction, not for precision — this program's actuals line rises across the span. The grid below is the same data as text, one cited figure per cell.FY2018 actuals — PB2020 editionFY2019 actuals — PB2021 editionFY2020 actuals — PB2022 editionFY2021 actuals — PB2023 editionFY2022 actuals — PB2024 editionFY2023 actuals — PB2025 editionFY2024 actuals — PB2026 editionFY2019 enacted — PB2020 editionFY2020 enacted — PB2021 editionFY2021 enacted — PB2022 editionFY2022 enacted — PB2023 editionFY2023 enacted — PB2024 editionFY2024 enacted — PB2025 editionFY2025 enacted — PB2026 editionFY2020 request — PB2020 editionFY2021 request — PB2021 editionFY2022 request — PB2022 editionFY2023 request — PB2023 editionFY2024 request — PB2024 editionFY2025 request — PB2025 editionFY2026 request — PB2026 editionFY18FY19FY20FY21FY22FY23FY24FY25FY26

The vertical scale does not start at zero: the baseline sits just below this program’s smallest year, so a low point on this line is not a small amount. Read the shape for direction and the grid below for the figures.

● actuals (line)  ·  ○ enacted  ·  ◇ request — gaps are editions the program is absent from, never interpolated.

Decade series values by fiscal year and President's Budget edition: one row per series (actuals, enacted, request), one column per fiscal year. Every figure opens its own citation.
SeriesFY18FY19FY20FY21FY22FY23FY24FY25FY26
Actuals$0$0$79.8M$173.2M$125.0M$108.8M$98.8M
Enacted$0$82.1M$175.7M$145.8M$99.1M$21.0M$61.3M
Request$60.6M$58.1M$48.8M$11.1M$21.0M$28.3M$23.3M

blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.

Asked vs spent: the PB2021 book requested $58.1M for FY2021; the PB2023 book reported $173.2M as actual total obligation authority — $115.1M above the request. 173.258.1 = 115.1 USD millions — the compact figures above are rounded for reading.

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 Air and Missile Defense Advanced Technology

This Program Element (PE) matures demonstrates technology in support of Army Modernization Priority Air and Missile Defense by maturating, demonstrating and conducting system level experimentation for the development of advanced air defense technologies that reduce the cost curve of missile defense, restore overmatch, survive volley-fire attacks, and operate within sophisticated Anti-Access/Area Denial (A2/AD) and contested domains. Research in this PE complements PE 0602150A (Air and Missile Defense Technology). This PE is directly aligned to the Air & Missile Defense (AMD) Army Modernization Priority. 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 United States (U.S.) Army Futures Command (AFC), the United States Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command (SMDC/ARSTRAT), and the Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), and the United States Army Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office (RCCTO). The FY 2026 request was reduced by $0.154 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 $0.096 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 Unconventional Countermeasures-Survivability ATech

This Project matures and demonstrates technologies to increase survivability of personnel and critical assets using integrated unconventional countermeasures. These countermeasures include tone down concepts for signature management using novel materials, rapidly deployable, low-cost, multisprectral survivability enhancement technologies as well as intuitive decision support technologies to select and assess non-kinetic protective measures. Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0602150A (Air and Missile Defense Technology) / Project AE2 (Unconventional Countermeasures-Survivability Tech). 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 conducted by the United States Army Engineer Research and Development Center Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory.

Mission Weapons Components Adv Technology (CA)

Congressional Interest Item funding provided for Weapons Components Advanced Technology. The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy.

Mission Optimized High Energy Laser Source Adv Tech

This Project matures and demonstrates Optimized High Energy Laser Source advanced technology establishing a more affordable laser source for application in High Energy Laser weapon systems. This Project will deliver a lower cost laser weapon source to next generation HEL systems. Research in this Project complements other Army Directed Energy efforts conducted under (PE) 0602150A (Air and Missile Defense Technology)/Projects DC1 (Next Generation Directed Energy Concept Development and Analysis) and CV7 (High Energy Laser Direct Diode Applied Technology). The cited research is consistent with the Army's modernization programs, the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas, the Army Modernization Strategy, and supports the Army's future capability opportunities for leap-ahead technology for Directed Energy. Research is performed by the United States Army Space and Missile Defense Command - Technical Center (USASMDC-TC) in coordination with RCCTO and PEO Missiles and Space/PM Shield.

Mission Radar Survivability through Dis Sensing Adv Tech

This Project matures and demonstrates distributed and collaborative engagement decision making for Multi-Domain Operations. The Augmented Intelligence for Mission Planning and Control effort will develop and mature Artificial Intelligence (AI) Decision Aids enabling operators to continuously manage IAMD component deployments and to select best engagement options in support of Multi-Domain Operations (MDO). Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0602141A (Lethality Technology) / Project CG4 (Advanced Radar Concepts and Technologies) and Project CJ7 (Future Air Defense Missile Enabling Tech; PE 0602148A (Future Vertical Lift Technology) / Project CC3 (FVL Radar Technologies); PE 0601102A (Defense Research Sciences) / Project AA8 (Sensing and Electromagnetics) and PE 0602150A (Air and Missile Defense Technology) / Project DA9 (Radar Survivability through Dis Sensing Tech); and PE 0602275A (Electronic Warfare Applied Research)/ Project A70 (Sensor Electronic Support Tech); and PE 0603275A (Electronic Warfare Advanced Technology) / Project A78 (Sensor Electronic Support Adv 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 Aviation & Missile Center (AvMC).

Mission Integrated Beam Control Systems Demo for C-CM

This program will mature and demonstrate advanced beam control technologies to extend the effective range of a High Energy Laser weapon system. Integrate a large-aperture, off-axis telescope into a government testbed with advanced adaptive optics and tracking. Validate and optimize adaptive optics and laser-quality tracking algorithms to demonstrate increased range capabilities for multi-domain missions, including counter-cruise missile operations.. Research in this Project complements other Army Directed Energy efforts conducted under (PE) 0602150A (Air and Missile Defense Technology)/Projects DC1 (Next Generation Directed Energy Concept Development and Analysis) and DE3 (Advanced Beam Control Component Development for Counter-Cruise Missile). The cited research is consistent with the Army's modernization programs, the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas, the Army Modernization Strategy, and supports the Army's future capability opportunities for leap-ahead technology for Directed Energy. Research is performed by the United States Army Space and Missile Defense Command - Technical Center (USASMDC-TC) in coordination with RCCTO.

Mission Air and Missile Defense Advanced Technology

This Program Element (PE) matures demonstrates technology in support of Army Modernization Priority Air and Missile Defense by maturating, demonstrating and conducting system level experimentation for the development of advanced air defense technologies that reduce the cost curve of missile defense, restore overmatch, survive volley-fire attacks, and operate within sophisticated Anti-Access/Area Denial (A2/AD) and contested domains. Research in this PE complements PE 0602150A (Air and Missile Defense Technology). This PE is directly aligned to the Air & Missile Defense (AMD) Army Modernization Priority. 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 United States (U.S.) Army Futures Command (AFC), the United States Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command (SMDC/ARSTRAT), and the Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), and the United States Army Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office (RCCTO). The FY 2026 request was reduced by $0.154 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 $0.096 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 Unconventional Countermeasures-Survivability ATech

This Project matures and demonstrates technologies to increase survivability of personnel and critical assets using integrated unconventional countermeasures. These countermeasures include tone down concepts for signature management using novel materials, rapidly deployable, low-cost, multisprectral survivability enhancement technologies as well as intuitive decision support technologies to select and assess non-kinetic protective measures. Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0602150A (Air and Missile Defense Technology) / Project AE2 (Unconventional Countermeasures-Survivability Tech). 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 conducted by the United States Army Engineer Research and Development Center Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory.

Mission Weapons Components Adv Technology (CA)

Congressional Interest Item funding provided for Weapons Components Advanced Technology. The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy.

Mission Optimized High Energy Laser Source Adv Tech

This Project matures and demonstrates Optimized High Energy Laser Source advanced technology establishing a more affordable laser source for application in High Energy Laser weapon systems. This Project will deliver a lower cost laser weapon source to next generation HEL systems. Research in this Project complements other Army Directed Energy efforts conducted under (PE) 0602150A (Air and Missile Defense Technology)/Projects DC1 (Next Generation Directed Energy Concept Development and Analysis) and CV7 (High Energy Laser Direct Diode Applied Technology). The cited research is consistent with the Army's modernization programs, the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas, the Army Modernization Strategy, and supports the Army's future capability opportunities for leap-ahead technology for Directed Energy. Research is performed by the United States Army Space and Missile Defense Command - Technical Center (USASMDC-TC) in coordination with RCCTO and PEO Missiles and Space/PM Shield.

Mission Radar Survivability through Dis Sensing Adv Tech

This Project matures and demonstrates distributed and collaborative engagement decision making for Multi-Domain Operations. The Augmented Intelligence for Mission Planning and Control effort will develop and mature Artificial Intelligence (AI) Decision Aids enabling operators to continuously manage IAMD component deployments and to select best engagement options in support of Multi-Domain Operations (MDO). Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0602141A (Lethality Technology) / Project CG4 (Advanced Radar Concepts and Technologies) and Project CJ7 (Future Air Defense Missile Enabling Tech; PE 0602148A (Future Vertical Lift Technology) / Project CC3 (FVL Radar Technologies); PE 0601102A (Defense Research Sciences) / Project AA8 (Sensing and Electromagnetics) and PE 0602150A (Air and Missile Defense Technology) / Project DA9 (Radar Survivability through Dis Sensing Tech); and PE 0602275A (Electronic Warfare Applied Research)/ Project A70 (Sensor Electronic Support Tech); and PE 0603275A (Electronic Warfare Advanced Technology) / Project A78 (Sensor Electronic Support Adv 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 Aviation & Missile Center (AvMC).

Mission Integrated Beam Control Systems Demo for C-CM

This program will mature and demonstrate advanced beam control technologies to extend the effective range of a High Energy Laser weapon system. Integrate a large-aperture, off-axis telescope into a government testbed with advanced adaptive optics and tracking. Validate and optimize adaptive optics and laser-quality tracking algorithms to demonstrate increased range capabilities for multi-domain missions, including counter-cruise missile operations.. Research in this Project complements other Army Directed Energy efforts conducted under (PE) 0602150A (Air and Missile Defense Technology)/Projects DC1 (Next Generation Directed Energy Concept Development and Analysis) and DE3 (Advanced Beam Control Component Development for Counter-Cruise Missile). The cited research is consistent with the Army's modernization programs, the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas, the Army Modernization Strategy, and supports the Army's future capability opportunities for leap-ahead technology for Directed Energy. Research is performed by the United States Army Space and Missile Defense Command - Technical Center (USASMDC-TC) in coordination with RCCTO.

Justification

Accomplishments & Planned Programs (12)

Advanced Integrated Unconventional Countermeasures Applications Demonstrations

This effort demonstrates methods and materials to defeat peer advanced reconnaissance, surveillance, targeting methods through advancements in material science and computational prototyping to reduce targetable signatures and confuse targeting systems.

Assured Protection of Layered Logistics Operations (APoLLO)

This effort matures and demonstrates unconventional countermeasures to protect joint logistical assets against emerging and dynamic threats to include expansion of core capabilities to other families of critical assets.

Optimized High Energy Laser Source Advanced Technology

This effort matures and demonstrates Optimized High Energy Laser Source Advanced Technology to demonstrate a more affordable laser source for application in High Energy Laser weapon systems. This effort will provide a lower cost, ruggedized laser source that meets the current Laser Weapon Module dimensions of a Counter-UAS Systems. Delivering an affordable 30 kW-class laser subsystem with 50% efficiency and 80% fractional Power in the Bucket enabling improvements in efficiency and Size, Weight, and Power laser source resulting in a smaller footprint while reducing logistics requirements.

Radar Survivability through Dis Sensing (RSDS) Adv Tech

Matures and demonstrates critical radar capability enhancements to defeat advanced Air and Missile threats and protect Army maneuver forces and critical assets.

Augmented Intelligence for Mission Planning and Control

Provides mission effectiveness capabilities for MDO distributed & collaborative engagement decision making through maturation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) decision aids that enable operators to continuously manage IAMD component deployments and select best engagement options and pairings. Performs test bed demonstrations of collaborative AI processes enabling a mix of fixed and mobile AMD weapons to defeat full MDO threat spectrum.

Integrated Beam Control Systems Demo for C-CM

Supports Advanced Beam Control demonstrations. Demonstrates New Technologies for Beam Control Systems. Support the Space and Missile Defense Commands efforts in developing Counter Cruise Missile Components/Subsystems.

Advanced Integrated Unconventional Countermeasures Applications Demonstrations

This effort demonstrates methods and materials to defeat peer advanced reconnaissance, surveillance, targeting methods through advancements in material science and computational prototyping to reduce targetable signatures and confuse targeting systems.

Assured Protection of Layered Logistics Operations (APoLLO)

This effort matures and demonstrates unconventional countermeasures to protect joint logistical assets against emerging and dynamic threats to include expansion of core capabilities to other families of critical assets.

Optimized High Energy Laser Source Advanced Technology

This effort matures and demonstrates Optimized High Energy Laser Source Advanced Technology to demonstrate a more affordable laser source for application in High Energy Laser weapon systems. This effort will provide a lower cost, ruggedized laser source that meets the current Laser Weapon Module dimensions of a Counter-UAS Systems. Delivering an affordable 30 kW-class laser subsystem with 50% efficiency and 80% fractional Power in the Bucket enabling improvements in efficiency and Size, Weight, and Power laser source resulting in a smaller footprint while reducing logistics requirements.

Radar Survivability through Dis Sensing (RSDS) Adv Tech

Matures and demonstrates critical radar capability enhancements to defeat advanced Air and Missile threats and protect Army maneuver forces and critical assets.

Augmented Intelligence for Mission Planning and Control

Provides mission effectiveness capabilities for MDO distributed & collaborative engagement decision making through maturation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) decision aids that enable operators to continuously manage IAMD component deployments and select best engagement options and pairings. Performs test bed demonstrations of collaborative AI processes enabling a mix of fixed and mobile AMD weapons to defeat full MDO threat spectrum.

Integrated Beam Control Systems Demo for C-CM

Supports Advanced Beam Control demonstrations. Demonstrates New Technologies for Beam Control Systems. Support the Space and Missile Defense Commands efforts in developing Counter Cruise Missile Components/Subsystems.

Budget Line Items(workbook-cited)

P-1/R-1 workbook Total Obligation Authority basis (USD thousands) · PB2026.

Exhibit R-1

AccountOrgTypeAmount
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, ArmyAFY24 Actuals$98.8M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, ArmyAFY25 Enacted$61.3M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, ArmyAFY25 Total$61.3M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, ArmyAFY26 Disc. Request$23.3M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, ArmyAFY26 Total$23.3M

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.

ProjectFY24 ActualsFY25 TotalFY26 BaseFY26 Request
Program Element$98.8M$61.3M$23.3M$23.3M
AE3: Unconventional Countermeasures-Survivability ATech$10.8M$11.9M$11.8M$11.8M
CV6: Optimized High Energy Laser Source Adv Tech$6.50M$4.19M$5.03M$5.03M
DB3: Radar Survivability through Dis Sensing Adv Tech$2.95M$6.72M$1.98M$1.98M
IB1: Integrated Beam Control Systems Demo for C-CM$5.56M$4.51M$4.51M
BN7: Weapons Components Adv Technology (CA)$78.5M$33.0M

No follow-the-dollar view — this program's awards haven't been crosswalked at high confidence (flows cover 17 of 1,741 programs). why coverage is partial? →

Awards

No awards are linked to this program element at high confidence — the budget→award crosswalk only asserts links it can defend, and this line has none yet.

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 Air and Missile Defense Advanced Technology — no program-specific GAO finding for this line is in the ingested data. See the DOD oversight record.

No research dossier for this program — dossiers cover 50 of 1,741 programs, the largest fully J-book-detailed lines by FY2026 requested dollars. why no dossier here? →