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RDT&E Program Element · President's Budget PB2027

(U) Collaborative Combat Aircraft

PE 0207147M·U.S. Navy·Approp. 1319 — RDT&E·BA4 — Advanced Component Development & Prototypes
FY2027 Request
$213.9M
◆ Scaling +4179%
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U.S. Navy funding ramps 4179% to a $213.9M request in FY2027, sustained across the five-year plan. In the FY2027 defense authorization, the House funded it in full; the Senate funded it in full; House appropriators funded it in full. NAWCAD leads the industry work.

FY2027 Request
$213.9M
▲ 4179% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$5.0M
No FY2025 funding
FY2025 Actual
$0.0M
Prior year

For fiscal year 2027, the U.S. Navy is requesting $213.9M for (U) Collaborative Combat Aircraft under RDT&E program element 0207147M, up 4179% over FY2026.

Funding trajectory

Funding profile, FY2025–FY2031

Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.

5010015020000.0FY25ACTUAL5.0FY26ENACTED213.9FY27REQUEST187.5FY28161.2FY29214.7FY30215.6FY31
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual0.0
FY2026Enacted5.0
FY2027Request213.9
FY2028Outyear187.5
FY2029Outyear161.2
FY2030Outyear214.7
FY2031Outyear215.6
Where it sits

Acquisition lifecycle

This program is funded in RDT&E Budget Activity 4 — Advanced Component Development & Prototypes.

Complete
Research
BA 1–2
Complete
Advanced Technology
BA 3
Current
Prototyping
BA 4
Later
Development & Fielding
BA 5–7
Inside the program element

1 project rolls up into PE 0207147M

Projects are the summable leaves — the PE total is their sum, never added to it. Program elements and projects carry the full five-year plan; activities stop at the budget year. This PE moves 4179% overall, which can hide much larger swings below.

Project 3148

MUX TACAIR Increment I

$213.9MFY2027 request ▲ 4179%
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$5.0M
FY2027 request$213.9M
Product DevelopmentSupportManagement Services

MAGTF Unmanned Aerial System Expeditionary Tactical Aircraft (MUX TACAIR) is a component of the USMC initiative to field a Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) capability that supports mass buildup of a Joint Force against a peer/near-peer adversary. Project efforts focus on operations from austere Expeditionary Advanced Basing Operations (EABO) airfields in support of Marine Littoral Regiment (MLR) and/or Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) operations serving as the Stand in Force (SiF) for a Joint Force, providing lethal and flexible support to support from the land and sea. This project increases MAGTF lethality, capacity and interoperability in the reconnaissance and electronic warfare mission areas, complementing existing and future TACAIR capabilities and enhancing combat reach into the INDOPACOM Area of Responsibility (AoR), or wherever enhanced, stand-off lethality is needed by the Joint Force. MUX TACAIR will increase the survivability, lethality, interoperability, and sustainability of the Marine Corps in support of the Joint Force.

Accomplishments / planned programs (R-2A) — prior, current and budget year only
MUX TACAIR Increment I▲ 4179%
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$5.0M
FY2027 request$213.9M

In FY 2027, flight test prototype air vehicle for demonstration and evaluation of Full System Control Segment and Air Vehicle integration capability and critical systems attributes (Command and Control (C2), air vehicle performance and mission system effectiveness). Demonstration and evaluation efforts of mission system effectiveness…

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The whole program

TACAIR is funded on 2 lines across 1 appropriations

This page shows $213.9M of TACAIR, 81% of the program's $264.3M FY2027 request. The rest is appropriated elsewhere.

Also funded hereTypeComponentFY2027 $M
Tactical Air Electronic WarfareRDT&ENavy50.3
TACAIR totalNavy264.3

Lines whose title names the program. 6 further lines only mention TACAIR in their justification text — those fund something else and are deliberately excluded from the total.

Congressional action

Congressional marks

Committee marks on the FY2027 request. Adds and cuts are reconciled in conference before they become law.

RequestPresident's Budget
$213.9M
House NDAA (HASC)HASC
$213.9M full · +$0
Senate NDAA (SASC)SASC
$213.9M full · +$0
House Approps (HAC-D)HAC_D
$213.9M full · +$0
unresolved as of 2026-07-27. These are FY2027 authorization marks (NDAA); appropriations and the conference agreement may differ.
Who's building it

Where the FY2027 request goes

Performers named in the R-3 exhibit, resolved into industry, government-lab, and unspecified shares. Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations.

NAWCAD
$11.5M · 5.3%
Systems Engineering
Where FY2027 funding flowsShare$M
Industry primes5.3%11.5
Government labs & warfare centers0.1%0.3
Other / unspecified95%202.2
FY2027 request100%213.9
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Program detail

Mission & acquisition strategy

USMC Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) is an uncrewed aircraft that enhances the survivability and lethality of the Marine Air Ground Task Force (MAGTF), complementing the Service's current 4th/5th Generation Tactical Aircraft (TACAIR) capability. The uncrewed weapons systems under development will enhance Marine Corps Aviation's lethality and ability to support the Stand-in Force (SiF) by delivering air-to-ground, reconnaissance, and Electronic Warfare (EW) capabilities.

The Marine Corps will use a spiral approach for capability insertion into TACAIR. MUX TACAIR Increment I will rapidly accelerate the time between development and fielding, ensuring rapid and relevant capability delivery of a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) to the warfighter. This approach will use an acquisition and contracting path allowing multiple concurrent technology insertions (development, integration, and test) through spiral development. Each spiral will have an associated MVP that is operationally relevant and balances schedule and technical complexity. The requirements within each MVP spiral will detail a minimum set of threshold capabilities required for training and tactics development with a unit of employment (e.g., fleet squadron).

Project 3148 — MUX TACAIR Increment I
  • Product Development
  • Support
  • Management Services
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FY2027 Department of the Navy RDT&E Budget Justification · Exhibits R-2 / R-3 · PE 0207147M (President's Budget PB2027) — and FY2027 NDAA committee marks, as tracked 2026-07-27.
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