What project 2939 buys
Project Unit 2939: The MQ-4C Triton Unmanned Air System (UAS) is a high altitude-long endurance UAS designed to provide Fleet and combatant commanders with persistent maritime Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance & Targeting (ISR&T) of nearly all the world's high-density sea-lanes, littorals, and areas of national interest. The Triton air vehicle, mission control system, specialized sensors, and communications suite play a significant role in achieving the Navy's strategic vision for the 21st century. Triton provides persistent ISR&T and unparalleled situational awareness of the maritime battle space to the supported combatant commander and fleet commander. Triton provides the Warfighter with unprecedented levels of battlespace awareness to synchronize actions necessary to maintain maritime full spectrum superiority. Teamed with its manned-capability counterpart, the P-8A Poseidon, Triton is a key component of the Navy's maritime domain awareness family of systems. MQ-4C Triton leverages Maritime Patrol and Reconnaissance Force manpower, training and maintenance efficiencies. Triton Early Operational Capability (EOC) was deployed in 2020 to provide early fleet integration risk reduction. It successfully prepared the fleet for fielding Initial Operational Capability (IOC) and concluded in 2022. In July 2023, Triton fielded the Increment 1 Multi-Intelligence (Multi-INT) IOC on schedule, successfully meeting the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) requirements. This enabled the Navy's Maritime Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Targeting (MISR-T) transition plan and initiated EP-3 Aries sundown. The Increment 1 Multi-INT capability provides Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), Counter Electronic Attack (CEA) upgrades, and data dissemination across multiple classification domains. Triton initiated Increment 2 development in FY 2023.
- Product Development
- Support
- Test and Evaluation
- Management Services
Project 2939 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 428.4 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 350.1 |
| FY2027 | Request | 325.0 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 306.3 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 115.3 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 110.1 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 112.1 |
4 accomplishments / planned programs
The R-2A exhibit — the only level of the budget that describes work that has not happened yet. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only, no five-year plan. 2 of them describe FY2027 work in enough detail to have their own page; the rest are shown here in full. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
FY27 continues to develop Increment 2 to incrementally incorporate software and hardware capability improvements, building on the Increment 1 baseline to ensure ongoing relevance of the MQ-4C capability. Increment 2 development includes efforts to provide advanced radar modes inclusive of GMTI, development of a high data rate (HDR)…
Read the FY2027 plan →FY27 continues to support integrated test team labor to reduce risk in design and development, perform subsystem level ground and acceptance testing, and obtain the necessary satellite communications required for system level test. To support the Increment 2 program schedule, the program continues System Level II and III testing…
Read the FY2027 plan →FY2027 planned work FY27 continues support development and integration of product support considerations for Triton's Increment 2 development. FY27 activities will include implementation of requirements for logistics support, technical engineering services, sensor reliability and maintainability risk reduction, logistics supportability analyses and environmental planning, modeling and simulation, development of manpower and basing assessments, and development of technical data to support fielding of the MQ-4C Triton UAS Increment 2 capabilities.
FY2026 to FY2027 change Increase in FY27 for ILS, Support, Studies & Analysis is due to the increased logistics requirement associated with Increment 2 capabilities.
FY2026 plans — current year FY26 continues development and integration of product support considerations for Triton's Increment 2 development. FY26 activities will include implementation of requirements for logistics support, technical engineering services, sensor reliability and maintainability risk reduction, logistics supportability analyses and environmental planning, modeling and simulation, development of manpower and basing assessments, and development of technical data to support fielding of the MQ-4C Triton UAS Increment 2 capabilities.
FY2027 planned work FY27 continues PM support and travel, development of milestone and acquisition-related documentation, capability refinement and open systems architecture development, resource justification, affordability assessments and cost analyses, risk reduction and risk management, system integration and interoperability planning, technology maturity reviews, program protection planning, corrosion prevention planning, and joint and international cooperation efforts.
FY2026 to FY2027 change Decrease in FY27 for Program Management is due to the decreased requirement for PM support associated with Increment 2.
FY2026 plans — current year FY26 continues PM support and travel, development of milestone and acquisition-related documentation, capability refinement and open systems architecture development, resource justification, affordability assessments and cost analyses, risk reduction and risk management, system integration and interoperability planning, technology maturity reviews, program protection planning, corrosion prevention planning, and joint and international cooperation efforts.
Named performers on project 2939
Performers named in the R-3 exhibit under this project. Share is of the project's whole FY2027 R-3 total — the same denominator the program-element split uses, so the two read on one scale and will not sum to 100% when unnamed or government work is in the mix. Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations.