Project 1398
$114.9MFY2027 request ▼ 10%Ocean Atmosphere and Space Sciences
FY2025 actual$117.7M
FY2026 enacted$127.5M
FY2027 request$114.9M
FY2027 Request
$525.4M
▼ 0.4% vs FY2026
House mark
$527.9M
▼ $2.5M vs request
FY2026 Enacted
$527.6M
In law
Roll-up of 28 projects. Projects are the summable leaves — the PE total is their sum, never added to it.
For fiscal year 2027, the U.S. Navy is requesting $525.4M for Defense Research Sciences under RDT&E program element 0601153N, down 0.4% from FY2026. In the FY2027 defense authorization, House moved to raise it to $527.9M.
Funding trajectory
Funding profile, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 487.2 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 527.6 |
| FY2027 | Request | 525.4 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 544.3 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 575.8 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 569.5 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 559.2 |
Where it sits
Acquisition lifecycle
This program is funded in RDT&E Budget Activity 1 — Basic Research.
Current
Research
BA 1–2
Later
Advanced Technology
BA 3
Later
Prototyping
BA 4
Later
Development & Fielding
BA 5–7
Inside the program element
28 projects roll up into PE 0601153N
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 0% overall, which can hide much larger swings below. The 8 largest have their own view above; the rest are shown in full here.
Project 1506
$109.6MFY2027 request ▼ 5%Materials/Electronics
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$114.8M
FY2027 request$109.6M
Project 1402
$62.4MFY2027 request ▲ 10%Naval STEM, Outreach, & Partnerships
FY2025 actual$17.0M
FY2026 enacted$56.8M
FY2027 request$62.4M
Project 1502
$47.6MFY2027 request ▼ 18%C5ISR/Naval Space
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$57.9M
FY2027 request$47.6M
Project 1505
$30.8MFY2027 request ▼ 32%Human & Biological Systems
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$45.5M
FY2027 request$30.8M
Project 1501
$27.7MFY2027 request ▲ 842%Autonomy/AI
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$2.9M
FY2027 request$27.7M
Project 3465
$21.0MFY2027 request ▲ 13%In-House Lab Independent Res
FY2025 actual$17.4M
FY2026 enacted$18.5M
FY2027 request$21.0M
Project 1510
$20.8MFY2027 request NEWExpeditionary Campaign
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$20.8M
Project 1396
$20.2MFY2027 request ▲ 29%Naval Engineering
FY2025 actual$20.8M
FY2026 enacted$15.6M
FY2027 request$20.2M
Project 1400
$18.8MFY2027 request ▼ 5%Power and Energy
FY2025 actual$26.1M
FY2026 enacted$19.9M
FY2027 request$18.8M
Project 1507
$18.2MFY2027 request ▼ 29%Naval Aerospace
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$25.5M
FY2027 request$18.2M
Project 1503
$17.2MFY2027 request ▲ 2%Directed Energy & Kinetic Systems
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$16.9M
FY2027 request$17.2M
Project 1387
$9.6MFY2027 request RESTARTBiotechnology
FY2025 actual$22.7M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$9.6M
Shortages of domestically sourced raw materials and power and energy challenges demand alternative approaches to protect military capabilities from scarcity vulnerabilities. These biology-based solutions introduce new opportunities to reduce logistics and resource risk and improve technology-enabled military capabilities. The objective of this research area is to identify and use nature's biological principles in materials, biomechanics, bioenergy, bioelectronics, propulsion, and control to solve critical naval challenges. The resultant technologies provide solutions that are superior to those based on physical sciences and materials engineering approaches.
Accomplishments / planned programs (R-2A) — prior, current and budget year only
Bio-Inspired Systems and Soft Robotics
FY2025 actual$2.3M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Biosciences, Bioengineering, and Synthetic Biology for Future Naval ApplicationsRESTART
FY2025 actual$4.6M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$9.6M
FY2027 planned work - Initiate an effort to understand the points of interface that often limit biotechnology and bioinspired processes. This work will also focus on developing new mechanisms for interfacing and identifying methods to exploit the interactions between biological and other components. - Initiate the utilization of biological processes for the synthesis of materials through biomanufacturing. This work seeks to support biologically-based solutions to fill capability gaps in military supply chains, solve logistics challenges, and provide materials with novel properties by investigating both whole cell and cell-free synthesis strategies.
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding increase between FY2026 and FY2027 is due to increase of efforts being funded in biomanufacturing science and biology, materials, and warfighter interfaces. This is not a new start.
Historically Black Colleges and Universities / Minority Institutions (HBCU/MI)
FY2025 actual$6.4M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Naval Research Enterprise Intern Program (NREIP)/Science and Engineering Apprenticeship Program (SEAP)
FY2025 actual$0.6M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Young Investigator Program (YIP)
FY2025 actual$0.4M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Physiological Monitoring and Modeling
FY2025 actual$8.3M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Project 1508
$4.3MFY2027 request ▼ 38%Undersea Systems
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$6.9M
FY2027 request$4.3M
This Focus Area (FA) addresses innovative affordable, persistent, and stealthy undersea systems that leverage the asymmetric US Navy advantage afforded by subsurface operations
Accomplishments / planned programs (R-2A) — prior, current and budget year only
Undersea Systems▼ 38%
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$6.9M
FY2027 request$4.3M
FY2027 planned work - Complete research efforts regarding Advanced Concepts for Sea Warfare and Weapons regarding unconventional power and energy technologies. - Continue research investigations of Undersea Warheads with respect to the characterization and modeling of explosive formulations. - Continue research investigations of Cooperative Autonomous Swarm Technology. - Continue both exploratory and confirmatory research with future naval application in Undersea Systems research areas.
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding decrease from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to closer align to current naval and administrative priorities by reducing research across multiple topics including advanced concepts for sea warfare and weapons, undersea warheads, and cooperative autonomous swarm technology.
FY2026 plans — current year - Continue research investigations of Undersea Warheads with respect to the characterization and modeling of explosive formulations. - Continue research efforts regarding Advanced Concepts for Sea Warfare and Weapons regarding unconventional power and energy technologies. - Continue research investigations of Cooperative Autonomous Swarm Technology. - Continue both exploratory and confirmatory research with future naval application in Undersea Systems research areas (realigned from Project 1099).
Project 1394
$2.3MFY2027 request ▼ 5%Manufacturing
FY2025 actual$0.3M
FY2026 enacted$2.4M
FY2027 request$2.3M
This Focus Area (FA) develops processes technologies that acquisition programs need to make the design, fabrication, construction, repair, and sustainment of naval platforms more affordable. This FA also supports manufacturing S&T that accelerates the delivery of capabilities to the fleet and force. Advanced manufacturing technologies include additive manufacturing, repair and sustainment technologies, and coupling computational tools from design to sustainment.
Accomplishments / planned programs (R-2A) — prior, current and budget year only
Sea Warfare and Weapons STEM
FY2025 actual$0.3M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Additive Manufacturing Materials▼ 6%
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$0.7M
FY2027 request$0.7M
FY2027 planned work - Continue efforts in new in situ sensing modalities for high temperature Naval materials. - Continue hybrid manufacturing science in understanding and designing material response during processing.
FY2026 to FY2027 change There is no significant funding change from FY2026 to FY2027.
FY2026 plans — current year - Initiate efforts in new in situ sensing modalities for high temperature Naval materials. - Initiate hybrid manufacturing science in understanding and designing material response during processing.
Computational Manufacturing Science▼ 6%
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$0.7M
FY2027 request$0.7M
FY2027 planned work - Continue new efforts for computational tools for novel manufacturing design of high strength alloys for manufacturing. - Continue activities for autonomous discovery, testing and scale up for manufacturing/ qualification.
FY2026 to FY2027 change There is no significant funding change from FY2026 to FY2027.
FY2026 plans — current year - Initiate new efforts for computational tools for novel manufacturing design of alloys for manufacturing. - Initiate activities for autonomous discovery, testing and scale up for manufacturing.
Manufacturing Science▼ 2%
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$0.9M
FY2027 request$0.9M
FY2027 planned work - Continue activities exploring sustainment science, intersections with synthetic manufacturing, and new processing science. - Continue both exploratory and confirmatory research with future naval application in manufacturing science research areas
FY2026 to FY2027 change There is no significant funding change from FY2026 to FY2027.
FY2026 plans — current year - Initiate activities exploring sustainment science, intersections with synthetic manufacturing, and new processing science. - Continue both exploratory and confirmatory research with future naval application in manufacturing science research areas (realigned from project unit 1099).
Project 1099
$0.0MFY2027 request Experimentation and Analysis
FY2025 actual$7.7M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Office of Naval Research Global (ONR Global) supports the basic research portion of the Department of the Navy (DON) science and technology (S&T) portfolio, by exploring science and technology research activities being conducted by scientists and universities outside of the United States. These basic research concepts have gone forward to become the foundation for new innovative technologies and future capabilities for naval warfighters. ONR Global's mission is to obtain, coordinate, and make available world-wide scientific information, to provide Global Technology Awareness; serve as an avenue for experimentation and analysis in support of transitioning basic research; provide rapid-prototyping solutions to problems submitted by Sailors and Marines world-wide; and to work closely with our unparalleled network of allies and partners to support the strategy of integrated deterrence across the globe. This project unit supports higher guidance defined by the National Defense Strategy and responds to requirements identified by the Secretary of the Navy through research priorities set by the Chief of Naval Research and outlined in the Naval R&D Framework. Research activities support long-term investments as outlined in an S&T Strategic Plan. The basic research conducted within this project activity supports areas of traditional, unique and emerging naval need to help ensure naval operational readiness and unsurpassed warfighting capabilities in the maritime domain. The basic research conducted within this project unit is expected to be at Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 1 (basic principles observed and reported) up to TRL 2 (technology concept and/or application formulation). DRS basic research (BA1) results provide the foundation for later applied research (BA2) and advanced technology development (BA3) solution options for the Navy and Marine Corps. ONR Global S&T research follows the trend of other DRS activities by advancing aspects of applied research and technology development that are developed into solutions for Navy and Marine Corps technical challenges via the Future Naval Capabilities (FNCs) pipeline, and new capability options for the future via the Innovative Naval Prototypes (INPs) portfolio.
Accomplishments / planned programs (R-2A) — prior, current and budget year only
Global Technology Awareness
FY2025 actual$7.7M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Project 1385
$0.0MFY2027 request Aerospace Sciences
FY2025 actual$25.6M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
The Aerospace Sciences activity develops technologies for the science and engineering of flight from the land and sea surfaces to the edge of the atmosphere, and as applicable to the utilization of flight for aircraft, missiles, rockets, munitions, and unmanned systems (UxS) employed by the Navy and Marine Corps forces operating from naval platforms or land locations.
Accomplishments / planned programs (R-2A) — prior, current and budget year only
Aerodynamics
FY2025 actual$3.6M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Flight Dynamics & Controls
FY2025 actual$5.8M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Aerospace Structures and Materials
FY2025 actual$3.6M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Science of Autonomy
FY2025 actual$8.4M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
STEM
FY2025 actual$3.1M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Expeditionary Aerospace Sciences
FY2025 actual$1.1M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Project 1386
$0.0MFY2027 request Biomedical
FY2025 actual$5.8M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
The health and performance of Sailors and Marines is a top priority. Research in the biomedical sciences allow us to discover and leverage breakthroughs that will improve Naval warfighter performance so they can fight, win and come home safe. Conducting research to gain a better understanding of the biomedical challenges of warfighters in their operating environments will ensure optimal performance, prevent injury, and equip the DON to provide the best care for its warfighters.
Accomplishments / planned programs (R-2A) — prior, current and budget year only
Expeditionary Biomedical
FY2025 actual$0.4M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Naval Force Health Protection and Human Performance
FY2025 actual$3.8M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
NREIP/SEAP
FY2025 actual$0.9M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Young Investigator Program
FY2025 actual$0.6M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Project 1388
$0.0MFY2027 request Directed Energy
FY2025 actual$7.3M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
The Directed Energy (DE) activity develops technologies that enable laser and high-power microwave (HPM) weapon systems, within Navy and Marine Corps size, weight, and power (SWAP) constraints, to strike enemy targets and to defend naval platforms and land bases from threats. Additionally, the DE activity develops technologies that enable defense against adversary DE systems.
Accomplishments / planned programs (R-2A) — prior, current and budget year only
Ultra Short Pulse Laser
FY2025 actual$2.7M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
High Power Microwaves
FY2025 actual$1.1M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
High Energy Laser & Counter Directed Energy Weapons
FY2025 actual$3.1M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Expeditionary Directed Energy
FY2025 actual$0.4M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Project 1389
$0.0MFY2027 request Electromagnetic Spectrum
FY2025 actual$10.7M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
The Electromagnetic Spectrum research area conducts fundamental research in areas that utilize the electromagnetic spectrum to deliver operational capability to the warfighter. This research area focuses on new concepts that increase knowledge and develops advanced capabilities regarding sensing, atmospheric considerations, networking, quantum phenomena, electromagnetic warfare, and the innovative use of the electromagnetic spectrum to provide a significant warfighting advantage. Research efforts include: Research Platforms, Networking Sensing, Quantum Measurement Architectural Devices, Expeditionary Electromagnetic Spectrum and Electromagnetic Warfare.
Accomplishments / planned programs (R-2A) — prior, current and budget year only
Research Platforms
FY2025 actual$1.2M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Networked Sensing
FY2025 actual$0.9M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Quantum Measurement Architectural Devices
FY2025 actual$2.6M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Expeditionary Electromagnetic Spectrum
FY2025 actual$1.7M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Electromagnetic Warfare
FY2025 actual$4.3M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Project 1390
$0.0MFY2027 request Electronics
FY2025 actual$47.0M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
The Electronics research area conducts basic research focused on increasing knowledge, developing advanced components and materials for electronics, communication systems, sensing devices, etc., to ensure the Naval warfighter can counter current and future threats. The research activities will focus on the following areas: - Nanoscale Computing Devices and Systems - Electronics and Sensors Technology - Expeditionary Electronics - Electronic Materials and Processes
Accomplishments / planned programs (R-2A) — prior, current and budget year only
Nanoscale Computing Devices and Systems
FY2025 actual$5.0M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Electronics and Sensors Technology
FY2025 actual$5.0M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Expeditionary Electronics
FY2025 actual$1.0M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Electronics Materials and Processes
FY2025 actual$36.0M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Project 1391
$0.0MFY2027 request Full Spectrum Cyber
FY2025 actual$12.8M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
The Full Spectrum Cyber research area addresses a number of research topics to include, but not limited to, advanced/emerging and theoretical implications of advanced networking architectures, neural networks, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), secure software algorithms, autonomous operating agents/systems, vulnerability analysis, use of intelligent agents, cryptographic computing, defenses against cyber-attacks, threat modeling, privacy-enhancing technologies, covert and encrypted communications, reconfigurable system design, quantum sensors, etc. Basic research activities within this area include: - Complex Software Systems and Cybersecurity - Expeditionary Cyber - Networks and Communications - Science of Artificial Intelligence
Accomplishments / planned programs (R-2A) — prior, current and budget year only
Complex Software Systems and Cybersecurity
FY2025 actual$8.1M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Expeditionary Cyber
FY2025 actual$1.4M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Networks and Communications
FY2025 actual$1.8M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Science of Artificial Intelligence
FY2025 actual$1.5M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Project 1392
$0.0MFY2027 request Human Systems
FY2025 actual$34.1M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Humans are at the core of every current and foreseeable Naval mission, whether they are assessing, coordinating and communicating decisions and actions across and within command echelons, planning and directing missions, controlling, managing or supervising systems in support of a mission, or directly executing the mission. The ability to select, train, sustain, maintain, and improve innate human competencies extends the warfighter's ability to meet current and anticipated needs. Creating synergies between warfighters and their technologies positions naval forces to quickly pivot to meet and dominate future challenges. The basic research in this project will lead to the development of future capabilities for maintaining, sustaining, and enhancing a warfighter's performance across a range of missions and operational environments throughout their career. The science and resulting technologies enable streamlined talent management, enhance cognitive and physical performance, and augment warfighter-machine teaming for greater operational effectiveness.
Accomplishments / planned programs (R-2A) — prior, current and budget year only
Expeditionary Human Systems
FY2025 actual$5.4M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Human-Level Artificial Intelligence and Autonomy
FY2025 actual$7.9M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
NREIP/SEAP
FY2025 actual$0.7M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Science of Artificial Intelligence
FY2025 actual$7.0M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Social Networks and Computational Social Science
FY2025 actual$5.1M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
STEM for Warfighter Performance
FY2025 actual$1.4M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Training and Education for Naval Readiness
FY2025 actual$3.5M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Warfighter Lethality and Survivability
FY2025 actual$2.6M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Young Investigator Program
FY2025 actual$0.5M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Project 1393
$0.0MFY2027 request Kinetic Weapons
FY2025 actual$6.7M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
The Kinetic Weapons activity develops technologies to address the Navy and Marine Corps fires requirements for extended range, increased precision, decreased weapons fly-out times, greater destructive power, novel weapons effects, autonomy, human-machine teaming, reduced weapons costs, mission planning, and mass-producible swarming munitions.
Accomplishments / planned programs (R-2A) — prior, current and budget year only
Advanced Energetic Materials
FY2025 actual$3.5M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Hypersonics
FY2025 actual$3.2M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Project 1395
$0.0MFY2027 request Materials
FY2025 actual$56.6M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
This Focus Area (FA) enhances the performance, affordability, survivability, and reliability of the future fleet and force by developing materials with novel or enhanced properties suited to the unique needs of Navy and Marine Corps platforms and systems. Research relevant to enabling enhanced performance and resiliency of naval systems and platforms are included in this R-2 Activity
Accomplishments / planned programs (R-2A) — prior, current and budget year only
Materials
FY2025 actual$7.7M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Sea Warfare and Weapons STEM
FY2025 actual$1.8M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Expeditionary Materials
FY2025 actual$0.8M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Materials and Chemistry
FY2025 actual$30.6M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Undersea Materials
FY2025 actual$0.2M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Functional Materials
FY2025 actual$7.7M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Structural Materials
FY2025 actual$7.7M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Project 1401
$0.0MFY2027 request Undersea Systems Payloads and Weapons
FY2025 actual$6.5M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
This Focus Area (FA) addresses innovative affordable, persistent, and stealthy undersea systems that leverage the asymmetric US Navy advantage afforded by subsurface operations.
Accomplishments / planned programs (R-2A) — prior, current and budget year only
Undersea Weaponry
FY2025 actual$5.4M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Sea Warfare and Weapons STEM
FY2025 actual$1.1M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Project 5893
$0.0MFY2027 request Decision Superiority
FY2025 actual$32.5M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
The Decision Superiority research area explores and develops technology for the naval force to include information processing, understanding, analysis, decision-making, and execution to obtain decisive competitive advantage across the range of naval missions and levels of warfare. Advanced communications and networking and precision navigation and timing (PNT) technology will accelerate and expand the Navy and Marine Corps ability to access high quality information for the kill web and to use information for operational effects and advantage with incredible ubiquity, accuracy, precision, security, integrity, and speed. Basic research efforts within this research area includes: - Communications and Networks - Artificial Intelligence, Data Sciences, and Quantum Information Sciences - Young Investigator Program (YIP) - Expeditionary Decision Superiority - Information Technology
Accomplishments / planned programs (R-2A) — prior, current and budget year only
Communications and Networks
FY2025 actual$0.8M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Artificial Intelligence, Data Sciences, and Quantum Information Sciences
FY2025 actual$22.3M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Young Investigator Program (YIP)
FY2025 actual$2.7M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Expeditionary Decision Superiority
FY2025 actual$0.8M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Information Technology
FY2025 actual$5.8M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Project 9999
$0.0MFY2027 request ▼ 100%Congressional Adds
FY2025 actual$12.1M
FY2026 enacted$16.4M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Congressional Interest Items not included in other Projects.
Congressional action
The request is contested
Committee marks on the FY2027 request. Adds and cuts are reconciled in conference before they become law.
RequestPresident's Budget
$525.4M
House NDAA (HASC)HASC
$527.9M +$2.5M · +0.5%
Senate NDAA (SASC)SASC
$540.5M +$15.1M · +2.9%
House Approps (HAC-D)HAC_D
$560.4M +$35.0M · +6.7%
▲ $32.5M chamber gap — unresolved as of 2026-07-27. These are FY2027 authorization marks (NDAA); appropriations and the conference agreement may differ.
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The Office of Naval Research (ONR) was established by Congress in 1946 to plan, foster and encourage scientific research in recognition of its paramount importance to the maintenance of American naval power and national security. ONR manages the Department of the Navy's (DON) portfolio of Basic Research (BA1), Applied Research (BA2) and Advanced Technology Development (BA3) investments to ensure naval forces can effectively deter conflict, but when called upon, are equipped and prepared to fight, win and return home safely.
Project 1398, 1506, 1402, 1502, 1505, 1501, 3465, 1510, 1396, 1400, 1507, 1503, 1387, 1508, 1394, 1099, 1385, 1386, 1388, 1389, 1390, 1391, 1392, 1393, 1395, 1401, 5893, 9999 — Ocean Atmosphere and Space Sciences
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FY2027 Department of the Navy RDT&E Budget Justification · Exhibits R-2 / R-3 · PE 0601153N (President's Budget PB2027) — and FY2027 NDAA committee marks, as tracked 2026-07-27.
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/programs/0601153N.md · MCP mcp.hitchintel.com → budget_get_program_element, budget_get_cong_marksFY2027 Request
$114.9M
▼ 9.8% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$127.5M
▲ 8.3% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$117.7M
Prior year
Ocean Atmosphere and Space Sciences — one RDT&E project inside PE 0601153N. Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, not on a project.
Project 1398 — Ocean Atmosphere and Space Sciences — requests $114.9M in FY2027, 22% of the $525.4M requested for program element 0601153N. Year over year it falls 9.8% against FY2026.
Funding trajectory
Project 1398 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 117.7 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 127.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 114.9 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 122.2 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 128.7 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 119.4 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 116.3 |
Inside the project
7 accomplishments / planned programs
The R-2A exhibit. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan — and they are descriptive: coverage is partial and they do not always add back to the project, so count them, never total them. Opening lines only here — the full year-by-year narrative is on the project page.
Ocean Sciences▼ 19%
FY2025 actual$70.4M
FY2026 enacted$68.1M
FY2027 request$54.9M
- Continue research investigations to improve the quality of the environmental analysis and prediction provided in support of warfighters, including the assessment of the impact of the atmosphere and ionosphere-thermosphere-magnetosphere on the performance of sensors, platforms and weapon systems, and the advancement of our basic…
Read the FY2027 plan →Expeditionary Ocean Atmosphere and Space Sciences▼ 100%
FY2025 actual$2.3M
FY2026 enacted$3.1M
FY2027 request$0.0M
- Continue research to understand nearshore and littoral environmental effects on future multidomain expeditionary operations. (Expeditionary Warfare) - Complete research efforts in sensors and sensing technologies to enable stand-off detection and rapid neutralization of explosive hazards in multiple expeditionary mission environments…
FY2025 actual$19.9M
FY2026 enacted$25.8M
FY2027 request$31.3M
- Continue research into Atmospheric Processes. The objective of this effort is to improve our understanding of complex atmospheric processes involving multiple scales in time and space and explore new, innovative strategies for observing, representing, and predicting the atmosphere. Efforts in this area encompass processes in the…
Read the FY2027 plan →Space Research▼ 100%
FY2025 actual$17.9M
FY2026 enacted$22.8M
FY2027 request$0.0M
- Complete research investigations into the geospace, which extends from the mesosphere up to the thermosphere. This is the environment in which the ionosphere is embedded and in which many low-Earth orbit satellites are located. Thus, the Extended Operational (Geospace) Environment research aims at developing a fundamental understanding…
Physical Oceanography and Prediction▲ 57%
FY2025 actual$4.7M
FY2026 enacted$4.2M
FY2027 request$6.6M
- Continue research efforts in physical oceanography, acoustics and prediction to understand the exploitation of structural/physical acoustic processes. Research efforts explore factors in the assessment and reduction of the threat posed by enemy submarines and mines, the determination of methods to reduce the vulnerability of U.S…
Ocean Acoustics▼ 42%
FY2025 actual$2.5M
FY2026 enacted$3.5M
FY2027 request$2.0M
- Continue research efforts in Ocean Acoustics to investigate physical phenomenon related to in oceanic environments. This program is focused on extending acoustic propagation simulation technology as a fundamental tool for understanding the environment through inversion methods and performance prediction. Efforts in this area of…
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$20.1M
- Provide support to meteorological, limnology, and oceanographic research vessels, aircraft, manned and unmanned platforms and associated services (Such as winches, instrumentation, portable ship-borne scientific laboratory vans and data storage) especially those provided by the ARF to enable at-sea oceanographic science.
Read the FY2027 plan →Project detail
What project 1398 buys
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) was established by Congress in 1946 to plan, foster and encourage scientific research in recognition of its paramount importance to the maintenance of future naval power and national security; to provide within the Department of the Navy a single office, which, by contract and otherwise, shall be able to obtain, coordinate, and make available to all bureaus and activities of the Department of the Navy, world-wide scientific information and the necessary services for conducting specialized and imaginative research; to establish a Naval Research Advisory Committee consisting of persons preeminent in the fields of research, to consult with and advise the Chief of such Office in matters pertaining to research The Office of Naval Research shall perform such duties as the Secretary of the Navy prescribes relating to the execution of, and management responsibility for, programs for which funds are provided in the basic and applied research and advanced technology categories of the Department of the Navy research, development, test, and evaluation budget in such a manner that will foster the transition of science and technology to higher levels of research, development, test, and evaluation. This Program Element (PE) supports the Basic Research portion of the Department of the Navy (DON) science and technology (S&T) portfolio, laying the foundation for new innovative technologies and future capabilities for Naval warfighters. Efforts within this PE address Ocean Atmosphere and Space Sciences. Ocean Battlespace Sensing research activities span a number of disciplines in support of Navy and Marine Corp operational missions. This research area supports theoretical and experimental investigations directed toward increasing knowledge and understanding of the physical, chemical, engineering, environmental and life sciences fundamental to naval operations, including expeditionary operations. Naval Operations research areas will include mine warfare, mine countermeasures, ocean acoustics, naval special warfare (governed by Littoral Geosciences), the reliable use of unmanned/robotic systems, autonomous operations, remote sensing, anti-submarine warfare, ocean engineering, artic operations, marine mammals/biology, physical oceanography, metrology/METOC and emerging undersea warfare capabilities.
FY2027 Request
$109.6M
▼ 4.5% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$114.8M
No FY2025 funding
FY2025 Actual
$0.0M
Prior year
Materials/Electronics — one RDT&E project inside PE 0601153N. Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, not on a project.
Project 1506 — Materials/Electronics — requests $109.6M in FY2027, 21% of the $525.4M requested for program element 0601153N. Year over year it falls 4.5% against FY2026.
Funding trajectory
Project 1506 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 114.8 |
| FY2027 | Request | 109.6 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 112.6 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 117.4 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 123.2 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 119.4 |
Inside the project
10 accomplishments / planned programs
The R-2A exhibit. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan — and they are descriptive: coverage is partial and they do not always add back to the project, so count them, never total them. Opening lines only here — the full year-by-year narrative is on the project page.
Electronics and Sensors Technology▼ 17%
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$4.9M
FY2027 request$4.0M
Electronics and Sensors Technology: - Continue research efforts to create new knowledge and understanding and explore new concepts, components, techniques and methods, for the design, growth, and characterization of electronic, electromagnetic, quantum enabled, and electro-optical materials; fabrication processes, electronic and…
Nanoscale Computing Devices and Systems▼ 12%
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$5.3M
FY2027 request$4.7M
Nanoscale Computing Devices and Systems: - Continue research efforts on ultra-low power nanoelectronic materials, devices, and architectures. - Continue research efforts exploring new platforms for probabilistic computing in stochastic networks. - Continue investigation of novel physical phenomena in quantum materials. - Continue…
Functional Materials▼ 13%
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$7.2M
FY2027 request$6.3M
- Continue research to explore opportunities for controlling material composition and atomic structure through characterization and modeling to enhance electro-mechanical coupling for next generation Acoustic Transduction and Sensor Materials. - Continue research to better understand the chemical and mechanical properties of materials…
Materials▼ 22%
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$7.7M
FY2027 request$6.0M
- Complete research efforts regarding Corrosion Control Science (for conventionally and additive manufactured materials) including galvanic and microbially influenced corrosion for enhanced resiliency and sustainability of naval platforms and systems. - Complete research of Electrochemical Materials and Functional Organic Materials and…
Structural Materials▼ 22%
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$7.2M
FY2027 request$5.6M
- Complete foundational research that provides the underpinnings for robust systems and platforms, exploring and understanding phenomenology of structural properties as functions of with the aim to improve performance and predict and mitigate component degradation, captured in quantitative data and physics-driven models that utilize an…
Expeditionary Electromagnetic Spectrum▼ 100%
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$1.8M
FY2027 request$0.0M
- Complete research of ultra-low size, weight, and power communications in a contested environment. (Expeditionary Warfare) - Complete research and development into physical and quantum limitations of photon detection to enhance understanding of light-matter interactions, beam control, and detection. (Expeditionary Warfare) - Complete…
Expeditionary Electronics▼ 100%
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$1.1M
FY2027 request$0.0M
-Complete research into understanding the fundamental limit of infrared detection beyond the electron-photon interactions of photoelectric and thermal photon-based detections. (Expeditionary Warfare) -Complete research into ultra-wide bandgap power electronics for ultrahigh frequency and medium voltage operation in extreme environments…
Expeditionary Materials▼ 100%
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$1.9M
FY2027 request$0.0M
- Complete research into developing a multi-physics understanding of multiferroic materials to enable future new expeditionary applications. (Expeditionary Warfare) - Complete research into quantum couplings to control phonon relaxation or transport processes in a material system. (Expeditionary Warfare) - Complete research on…
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$35.6M
FY2027 request$45.1M
- Continue work into Corrosion and Interfacial Chemistry. Efforts in this area of research target an understanding of corrosion and interfacial chemistries/processes to develop new materials technologies and control measures to ensure Fleet readiness, critical operations, and survivability. - Continue efforts into Materials Chemistry and…
Read the FY2027 plan →FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$42.1M
FY2027 request$37.9M
- Continue research investigations of electronic materials essential to the sensors, electronics, and electronic warfare systems needed for future US naval dominance. - Continue theoretical, numerical, and experimental research in Power Electronics Science to create an improved understanding and realization of power electronic materials…
Read the FY2027 plan →Project detail
What project 1506 buys
This Focus Area (FA) enhances the performance, affordability, survivability, and reliability of the future fleet and force by developing materials with novel or enhanced properties suited to the unique needs of Navy and Marine Corps platforms and systems. Research relevant to enabling enhanced performance and resiliency of naval systems and platforms are included in this R-2 Activity.
FY2027 Request
$62.4M
▲ 9.9% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$56.8M
▲ 235% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$17.0M
Prior year
Naval STEM, Outreach, & Partnerships — one RDT&E project inside PE 0601153N. Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, not on a project.
Project 1402 — Naval STEM, Outreach, & Partnerships — requests $62.4M in FY2027, 12% of the $525.4M requested for program element 0601153N. Year over year it grows 9.9% against FY2026.
Funding trajectory
Project 1402 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 17.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 56.8 |
| FY2027 | Request | 62.4 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 63.3 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 66.3 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 65.7 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 66.9 |
Inside the project
4 accomplishments / planned programs
The R-2A exhibit. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan — and they are descriptive: coverage is partial and they do not always add back to the project, so count them, never total them. Opening lines only here — the full year-by-year narrative is on the project page.
Naval STEM▲ 20%
FY2025 actual$17.0M
FY2026 enacted$32.6M
FY2027 request$39.0M
Science, Technology, Education and Mathematics (STEM) - Continue existing successful efforts, like the Navy and Marine Corps Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) Flight Academy, while examining approaches to further scale up these efforts to achieve greater impact across the DON. - Continue the development of highly scalable…
Read the FY2027 plan →Historically Black Colleges and Universities / Minority Institutions (HBCU/MI)▲ 3%
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$8.9M
FY2027 request$9.2M
- Continue with increasing number of internships at SYSCOMs: NRL, NAVSUP, NAVAIR, NAVFAC, BUMED, NAVWAR, Marine Corps, and SSP for students at HBCU/MIs. - Continue to provide faculty fellowships for HBCU/MI faculty to conduct Naval-relevant research at all Naval Warfare Centers and Laboratories. - Continue new outreach initiatives in…
Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program and The Science and Engineering Apprenticeship Program (NREIP/SEAP)▲ 6%
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$2.6M
FY2027 request$2.8M
- Continue Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program (NREIP) and Science and Engineering Apprenticeship Program (SEAP) opportunities for students to participate in Navy and Marine Corps-relevant research at Naval Warfare Centers and Laboratories by expanding the number of participating sites, mentors, and interns.
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$12.6M
FY2027 request$11.5M
- Complete Young Investigator Program topics initiated in previous fiscal years and review opportunities to transition technologies and identify future funding for high-quality investigators that will contribute to developing capabilities for the Navy. - Continue FY2025 and FY2026 YIP awards to assistant professors that have demonstrated…
Read the FY2027 plan →Project detail
What project 1402 buys
The Naval STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) research area proactively addresses a variety of naval, and national, security issues by fostering and cultivating a world-class workforce as necessary to maintain the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps technological superiority. The Naval STEM research area supports strategic opportunities that inspire, engage, educate, employ, develop, and retain the current and future workforce through a portfolio of research and initiatives. Naval STEM initiatives are coordinated across the Naval Research Enterprise (NRE) to provide critical skills and career opportunity awareness.
FY2027 Request
$47.6M
▼ 18% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$57.9M
No FY2025 funding
FY2025 Actual
$0.0M
Prior year
C5ISR/Naval Space — one RDT&E project inside PE 0601153N. Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, not on a project.
Project 1502 — C5ISR/Naval Space — requests $47.6M in FY2027, 9.1% of the $525.4M requested for program element 0601153N. Year over year it falls 18% against FY2026.
Funding trajectory
Project 1502 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 57.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 47.6 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 53.1 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 56.2 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 54.7 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 53.0 |
Inside the project
9 accomplishments / planned programs
The R-2A exhibit. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan — and they are descriptive: coverage is partial and they do not always add back to the project, so count them, never total them. Opening lines only here — the full year-by-year narrative is on the project page.
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$25.1M
FY2027 request$19.4M
Quantum Information Sciences: - Continue research of quantum states, devices, phenomena relative to the simulation, information processing and computing performance needs of naval systems. - Continue research on novel techniques for controlling quantum states to improve performance of information processors, sensors and clocks…
Read the FY2027 plan →Communications and Networks▲ 677%
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$0.9M
FY2027 request$7.2M
Research thrusts in this area include Tactical Communications and Tactical Networks. Tactical Communications: - Continue research regarding novel software coding and modulation techniques to improve the efficiency, capacity and/or resilience of wireless communication systems. - Complete research efforts to develop new techniques for…
Complex Software Systems and Cybersecurity▼ 6%
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$8.4M
FY2027 request$7.9M
Complex Software Systems and Cybersecurity: - Continue to investigate and explore novel computing concepts that lead toward robust, resilient, and dependable cyber systems. - Continue research on novel methods for attack surface maneuver for cyber physical systems and systems with complex apertures and sophisticated sensing apparatus, to…
Electromagnetic Warfare▼ 10%
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$2.3M
FY2027 request$2.1M
- Continue investigations into novel approaches to deep-generative machine learning-based algorithms and architectures for multi-static radar imaging to enable better noise robustness and resolution performance. - Continue research efforts with the overarching objective of establishing the mathematical constructs, techniques…
Expeditionary Cyber▼ 100%
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$2.1M
FY2027 request$0.0M
- Complete research into rethinking data security in a speculative, hammerable, and heterogeneous world. - Complete research into third generation network intrusion detection and prevention systems. - Complete research into cyber-secure, power-aware, embedded, distributed, federated learning algorithms on resource constrained…
Information Technology▼ 65%
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$14.1M
FY2027 request$4.9M
- Continue research efforts in Environmentally-informed Decision Theory that focuses on the theory and understanding behind the information processing, analytics, optimization, information content, analysis, decision-making, and decision understanding needed to obtain decisive competitive advantage across the range of naval missions and…
Networked Sensing▲ 19%
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$0.8M
FY2027 request$1.0M
Networked Sensing: - Continue research into physical and quantum limitations of photon detection to enhance understanding of light-matter interactions, beam control, and detection. - Continue research investigations regarding fundamental implications of classical entanglement on imaging and metrology. - Continue research efforts…
Quantum Measurement Architectural Devices▲ 17%
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$3.1M
FY2027 request$3.6M
Quantum Measurement Architectural Devices: - Continue research efforts regarding the development of protocols for sensing and timekeeping devices based on quantum systems, including clocks with improved short and long-term performance and electromagnetic field sensors. - Continue research into the development of inertial and gravity…
Research Platforms▲ 44%
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$1.1M
FY2027 request$1.6M
Research Platforms: - Continue airborne collection of multi-modal signature and phenomenology for fundamental modelling and machine learning research. - Initiate the modification and aircraft certification for collection Airborne high resolution radar clutter and hard target signature data. - Initiate the design and integration for…
Project detail
What project 1502 buys
The Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance, and Naval Space activity researches and develops technology for the naval force to obtain decisive competitive advantage across the range of naval missions and levels of warfare. This project conducts fundamental research in data science, mathematical optimization, computational and information sciences, command and control (C2), combat systems, communications, cyber security, cyber operations, electromagnetic warfare (EMW), sensing and surveillance, and quantum sciences.
FY2027 Request
$30.8M
▼ 32% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$45.5M
No FY2025 funding
FY2025 Actual
$0.0M
Prior year
Human & Biological Systems — one RDT&E project inside PE 0601153N. Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, not on a project.
Project 1505 — Human & Biological Systems — requests $30.8M in FY2027, 5.9% of the $525.4M requested for program element 0601153N. Year over year it falls 32% against FY2026.
Funding trajectory
Project 1505 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 45.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 30.8 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 30.3 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 32.0 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 33.3 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 32.3 |
Inside the project
9 accomplishments / planned programs
The R-2A exhibit. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan — and they are descriptive: coverage is partial and they do not always add back to the project, so count them, never total them. Opening lines only here — the full year-by-year narrative is on the project page.
Bio-Inspired Systems and Soft Robotics▼ 14%
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$2.9M
FY2027 request$2.5M
- Continue basic research efforts utilizing microbes and biological components for development of materials. - Continue using biotechnology and bioengineering to explore new pathways for the biosynthesis of Naval relevant compounds at point of need. - Continue basic research efforts to understand how to develop domestic biomanufacturing…
Biosciences, Bioengineering, and Synthetic Biology▲ 7%
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$6.8M
FY2027 request$7.2M
- Continue basic research efforts utilizing microbes and biological components for development of materials. - Continue using biotechnology and bioengineering to explore new pathways for the biosynthesis of Naval relevant compounds at point of need. - Continue basic research efforts to understand how to develop domestic biomanufacturing…
Expeditionary Biomedical▼ 100%
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$1.7M
FY2027 request$0.0M
- Complete fundamental research towards autonomous casualty care for severe trauma in austere conditions with the intent to gain the understanding needed to extend the survivability window for acute traumatic injuries significantly beyond the 'golden hour'. (Expeditionary Warfare)
Expeditionary Naval Engineering▼ 100%
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$2.9M
FY2027 request$0.0M
- Complete efforts to study the complex energy-supply problem with deployed vehicles in contested environments en-route to developing a novel decision-support framework for planning and managing adaptive transportation systems for naval logistics. (Expeditionary Warfare) - Complete research for modeling autonomy, for the purpose of…
Human-Level Artificial Intelligence and Autonomy▼ 6%
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$4.9M
FY2027 request$4.6M
- Continue research efforts to explore training of terrestrial robots using machine learning and human demonstration to perform complex skills, door opening, and use of stair railings. - Continue research exploring the combination of robot mobility with dexterous manipulation in assisting humans on Naval relevant tasks, such as shipboard…
Sailor Health and Performance▲ 91%
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$4.2M
FY2027 request$8.0M
- Complete research efforts into fundamental concepts underlying passive and/or automated personnel location and proof of life technologies for personnel lost at sea. - Complete the development of programmable microbes that increase heat production in response to temperature decreases in the animal or human body. - Complete exploration…
Physiological Monitoring and Modeling▼ 100%
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$10.7M
FY2027 request$0.0M
- Complete research into Biomanufacturing Science. Biomanufacturing utilizes biological processes for the synthesis of materials, including harnessing existing cellular production, isolation and utilization of cellular components or pathways, and modification of cellular systems to develop and optimize novel pathways or products…
Warfighter Decision Superiority and Readiness▲ 2%
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$8.3M
FY2027 request$8.5M
Analytics, Modeling and Simulation for Local and Regional Situation Awareness - Complete research to understand effective communications strategies in the face of information conflict. - Complete research to improve current methods (e.g., algorithms, models) for detecting adversarial information maneuvers across social media platforms…
Warfighter Lethality and Survivability▼ 100%
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$3.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
- Complete research investigations to characterize novel physiologic signal monitoring capabilities. - Complete studies of optimal performance techniques in high-stress maritime environments such as firefighting afloat. - Complete research to enhance and quantify warfighter physiological performance for improved capabilities across…
Project detail
What project 1505 buys
Human and Biological Systems conducts fundamental research to enhance performance and effectiveness of naval personnel, technologies, and systems. This will integrate the complex relationships amongst humans, biological systems, and technology to develop revolutionary solutions that enhance physical and cognitive performance, safety, casualty care, training and readiness and reduce vulnerabilities in all domains.
FY2027 Request
$27.7M
▲ 842% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$2.9M
No FY2025 funding
FY2025 Actual
$0.0M
Prior year
Autonomy/AI — one RDT&E project inside PE 0601153N. Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, not on a project.
Project 1501 — Autonomy/AI — requests $27.7M in FY2027, 5.3% of the $525.4M requested for program element 0601153N. Year over year it grows 842% against FY2026.
Funding trajectory
Project 1501 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 2.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 27.7 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 24.3 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 26.4 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 25.9 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 25.5 |
Inside the project
4 accomplishments / planned programs
The R-2A exhibit. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan — and they are descriptive: coverage is partial and they do not always add back to the project, so count them, never total them. Opening lines only here — the full year-by-year narrative is on the project page.
Expeditionary Decision Superiority▼ 100%
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$1.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
- Complete a focused research effort for discovery research on multi-class, multi-objective deep reinforced learning algorithms with automated training. (Expeditionary Warfare) - Complete research into deception, degradation, and manipulation of artificial intelligence algorithms in perception/action loops. (Expeditionary Warfare)…
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$2.0M
FY2027 request$13.4M
- Continue research exploring integration of domain knowledge and physical models with machine learning for fast, robust learning of diverse complex concepts and tasks without the need for labeled data. - Continue research efforts regarding the use of artificial intelligence to advance the scientific understanding of AI-machine…
Read the FY2027 plan →Intelligent & Collaborative AgentsNEW
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$4.3M
Machine Reasoning and Intelligence: - Continue developing the science base and computational methods for building versatile intelligent agents, which can function autonomously in uncertain, unstructured, uncontrolled, open-world environments, and can collaborate seamlessly with humans and other agents. - Continue basic research for…
Science of AutonomyNEW
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$10.0M
Science of Autonomy and Control of Unmanned Systems Research investigations regarding critical multidisciplinary autonomy challenges that cut across areas/domains, including air, sea, undersea and ground. Research efforts include the following: Continue: - Investigating the scalable and robust distributed collaboration among autonomous…
Project detail
What project 1501 buys
The Autonomy/ AI Project conducts foundational research in: machine learning, reasoning and intelligence; automated image, scene, and signal understanding; large-scale distributed decision making; transferring learning and sharing knowledge across domains; creating trusted and explainable artificial intelligence; and human-AI collaboration techniques. Results of this research will lead to trusted, advanced AI techniques that will solve more complex tasks and enhance autonomy for DON systems and missions.
FY2027 Request
$21.0M
▲ 13% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$18.5M
▲ 6.6% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$17.4M
Prior year
In-House Lab Independent Res — one RDT&E project inside PE 0601153N. Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, not on a project.
Project 3465 — In-House Lab Independent Res — requests $21.0M in FY2027, 4.0% of the $525.4M requested for program element 0601153N. Year over year it grows 13% against FY2026.
Funding trajectory
Project 3465 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 17.4 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 18.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 21.0 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 21.5 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 22.0 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 22.1 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 22.5 |
Inside the project
1 accomplishment / planned program
The R-2A exhibit. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan — and they are descriptive: coverage is partial and they do not always add back to the project, so count them, never total them. Opening lines only here — the full year-by-year narrative is on the project page.
FY2025 actual$17.4M
FY2026 enacted$18.5M
FY2027 request$21.0M
- Continue projects selected in FY 2026 in support of The development of the naval Science and Engineering workforce at the Naval Warfare Centers and Laboratories via high-risk / high-reward basic research initiatives with direct naval relevance to the naval mission of the Command. Each participating naval site will conduct peer reviews…
Read the FY2027 plan →Project detail
What project 3465 buys
The In-house Laboratory Independent Research (ILIR) initiative seeks to improve the quality of defense research conducted predominantly through the Naval Warfare Centers/Laboratories. It also supports the development of technical intellect and education of engineers and scientists in disciplines critical to national defense needs through the development of new knowledge in a military laboratory environment. Initial research focus is often conducted in an unfettered environment since it is basic research, but many projects focus on applying recently developed theoretical knowledge to real world military problems with the intention of developing new capabilities and improving the performance of existing systems.
FY2027 Request
$20.8M
No FY2026 funding
FY2026 Enacted
$0.0M
No FY2025 funding
FY2025 Actual
$0.0M
Prior year
Expeditionary Campaign — one RDT&E project inside PE 0601153N. Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, not on a project.
Project 1510 — Expeditionary Campaign — requests $20.8M in FY2027, 4.0% of the $525.4M requested for program element 0601153N. It is a new start — no prior-year or current-year money.
Funding trajectory
Project 1510 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 20.8 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 23.6 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 26.0 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 24.4 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 23.5 |
Inside the project
7 accomplishments / planned programs
The R-2A exhibit. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan — and they are descriptive: coverage is partial and they do not always add back to the project, so count them, never total them. Opening lines only here — the full year-by-year narrative is on the project page.
Command, Control, Communications, and Computers (C4)NEW
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$3.0M
Initiate: - Research of ultra-low size, weight, and power communications in a contested environment. - Research and development into physical and quantum limitations of photon detection to enhance understanding of light-matter interactions, beam control, and detection. - Research to develop a quantitative numerical representation of…
Force ProtectionNEW
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$1.5M
Initiate: - Basic research to conduct phenomenological studies involving the interaction of directed energy with matter. - Basic research efforts to study the fundamental phenomenology of explosive signatures and threat system components.
Human Performance, Training and EducationNEW
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$4.8M
Initiate: - Research investigations regarding learning theories to enable complex, collaborative, human-machine interactions. - Research efforts on means and methods for evaluating the reliability and effectiveness of collective decision making by autonomous systems and humans. - Work in immersive sciences to generate 3D objects via…
Intelligence, Surveillance, And Reconnaissance (ISR)NEW
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$2.5M
Initiate: - Study of theoretical foundations and limitations of deception and Artificial Intelligence methods in perception/action loops. - Research effort to lay the theoretical and methodological foundations for detecting threats using social media data. - Research to understand the influence of mis/dis/mal information in social media…
LogisticsNEW
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$5.1M
Initiate: - Research into understanding the innate multi-physics of multiferroic materials to enable future new expeditionary applications. - Research into understanding the fundamental limit of infrared detection beyond the electron-photon interactions of photoelectric and thermal photon-based detections. - Research into ultra-wide…
Expeditionary CyberNEW
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$1.5M
Initiate: - Research into rethinking data security in a speculative, hammerable, and heterogeneous world. - Research into third generation network intrusion detection and prevention systems. - Research into cyber-secure, power-aware, embedded, distributed, federated learning algorithms on resource constrained, sporadically connected…
ManeuverNEW
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$2.4M
Initiate: - Research to understand nearshore and littoral environmental effects on future multidomain expeditionary operations. - Research to study of littoral mud flats and shorelines by investigating interlinked processes such as soil-sea-ice-air and benthic Life Interactions. Methods and investigation should include theory, modeling…
Project detail
What project 1510 buys
This project funds fundamental research that will lay the foundation for new innovative technologies and future capabilities for naval and expeditionary forces. It provides the foundation of research that enables Naval Forces to fight threats and adversaries in expeditionary operations. Research efforts include theoretical and experimental investigations directed toward increasing knowledge and understanding of the physical, chemical, engineering, environmental and life sciences. The project advances science that is needed to address a range of research challenges that result from physical and operational environmental limitations so harsh that solutions push basic discovery and invention.