# Project 1510 — Expeditionary Campaign

**Program element:** 0601153N — Defense Research Sciences  
**Project:** 1510  
**Component:** U.S. Navy  
**Appropriation:** 1319 — RDT&E, Navy  
**Budget Activity:** 1 — Basic Research  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601153N/1510  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601153N

## Summary

Project 1510 — Expeditionary Campaign requests $20.8M in FY2027, 4.0% of the $525.4M requested for program element 0601153N — a new start, with no prior-year and no current-year money. 7 R-2A activities decompose the request, 7 new this cycle.

## Funding profile

| 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 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0601153N; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## 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.

## Activities (R-2A) — 7

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Logistics | 0.0 | 0.0 | 5.1 | new | — |
| Human Performance, Training and Education | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4.8 | new | — |
| Command, Control, Communications, and Computers (C4) | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3.0 | new | — |
| Intelligence, Surveillance, And Reconnaissance (ISR) | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.5 | new | — |
| Maneuver | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.4 | new | — |
| Force Protection | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.5 | new | — |
| Expeditionary Cyber | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.5 | new | — |

> Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan. In the request year they partition this project exactly; in earlier years they can under-cover it.

### Logistics — NEW START

**FY2027 planned work.** 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 bandgap power electronics for ultrahigh frequency and medium voltage operation in extreme environments. - Research into developing a multi-physics understanding of multiferroic materials to enable future new expeditionary applications. - Research into quantum couplings to control phonon relaxation or transport processes in a material system. - Research on enhancing/optimizing the magnetoelectric coupling efficiency among electric, magnetic, mechanical, and optical (properties) states to explore fundamental light-matter interaction in heterostructured multiferroic materials. - Research effort in Materials Control through Quantum Coupling for Enhanced Sensing and Transduction. - 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. - Research into mitigation of unsteady surface impacts on lifting bodies operating in-ground effect.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** The increase in funding from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to the realignment and consolidation of all expeditionary funding requirements within PE 0601153N from planned program in Projects 1398 Ocean Atmosphere and Space Sciences, 1400 Power and Energy, 1501 Autonomy/AI, 1502 C5ISR/Naval Space, 1503 Directed Energy & Kinetic Systems, 1505 Human & Biological Systems, 1506 Materials/Electronics and 1507 Naval Aerospace into the new Project 1510 Expeditionary Campaign. Planned programs have been updated to align to current expeditionarys priorities.

### Human Performance, Training and Education — NEW START

**FY2027 planned work.** 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 photogrammetry and generative artificial intelligence techniques, and to conduct research studies to optimize user interfaces and information displays to increase understanding and use of Extended Reality (XR) technologies for naval applications. - 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'.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** The increase in funding from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to the realignment and consolidation of all expeditionary funding requirements within PE 0601153N from planned program in Projects 1398 Ocean Atmosphere and Space Sciences, 1400 Power and Energy, 1501 Autonomy/AI, 1502 C5ISR/Naval Space, 1503 Directed Energy & Kinetic Systems, 1505 Human & Biological Systems, 1506 Materials/Electronics and 1507 Naval Aerospace into the new Project 1510 Expeditionary Campaign. Planned programs have been updated to align to current expeditionary priorities.

### Command, Control, Communications, and Computers (C4) — NEW START

**FY2027 planned work.** 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 mesospheric Atmospheric Gravity Wave (AGW) coupling to Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances (TID) that is underpinned by the theoretical models while matching the current observationally based empirical models. Complete: - Develop a comprehensive United Stated Marine Corps (USMC) science, technology, engineering and mathematics plan that effectively supports both Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps cadets and recent USMC veterans in their transition to and growth within science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields, a structured approach.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** The increase in funding from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to the realignment and consolidation of all expeditionary funding requirements within PE 0601153N from planned program in Projects 1398 Ocean Atmosphere and Space Sciences, 1400 Power and Energy, 1501 Autonomy/AI, 1502 C5ISR/Naval Space, 1503 Directed Energy & Kinetic Systems, 1505 Human & Biological Systems, 1506 Materials/Electronics and 1507 Naval Aerospace into the new Project 1510 Expeditionary Campaign. Planned programs have been updated to align to current expeditionary priorities.

### Intelligence, Surveillance, And Reconnaissance (ISR) — NEW START

**FY2027 planned work.** 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. - Research effort to understand how hate and a potential for violence or protest present themselves at a community level. - Research investigations regarding the creation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) hybrid learning theories for the purpose of creating heterogeneous multi-agent collaborative autonomy. - Research to create theories for multi-agent collaborative autonomy that mimic the organizational principles found in social insects/birds/fishes. - Follow-on and focused research effort for the machine learning investigation of multifactorial information environment parameters in order to automate the process of detecting, identifying and distinguishing intent. - Research to study novel collaborative methods for swarming autonomous entities to reliably determine true/relative position in GPS-denied operations.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** The increase in funding from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to the realignment and consolidation of all expeditionary funding requirements within PE 0601153N from planned program in Projects 1398 Ocean Atmosphere and Space Sciences, 1400 Power and Energy, 1501 Autonomy/AI, 1502 C5ISR/Naval Space, 1503 Directed Energy & Kinetic Systems, 1505 Human & Biological Systems, 1506 Materials/Electronics and 1507 Naval Aerospace into the new Project 1510 Expeditionary Campaign. Planned programs have been updated to align to current expeditionary priorities.

### Maneuver — NEW START

**FY2027 planned work.** 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, field and remote sensing/satellite based focus areas for global understanding. - Research for modeling autonomy, for the purpose of creating systems that operate in complex undersea/surface/ land/air/space domains. - Research methods that model how diverse autonomous systems interact with each other in complex environments.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** The increase in funding from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to the realignment and consolidation of all expeditionary funding requirements within PE 0601153N from planned program in Projects 1398 Ocean Atmosphere and Space Sciences, 1400 Power and Energy, 1501 Autonomy/AI, 1502 C5ISR/Naval Space, 1503 Directed Energy & Kinetic Systems, 1505 Human & Biological Systems, 1506 Materials/Electronics and 1507 Naval Aerospace into the new Project 1510 Expeditionary Campaign. Planned programs have been updated to align to current expeditionary priorities.

### Force Protection — NEW START

**FY2027 planned work.** 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.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** The increase in funding from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to the realignment and consolidation of all expeditionary funding requirements within PE 0601153N from planned program in Projects 1398 Ocean Atmosphere and Space Sciences, 1400 Power and Energy, 1501 Autonomy/AI, 1502 C5ISR/Naval Space, 1503 Directed Energy & Kinetic Systems, 1505 Human & Biological Systems, 1506 Materials/Electronics and 1507 Naval Aerospace into the new Project 1510 Expeditionary Campaign. Planned programs have been updated to align to current expeditionary priorities.

### Expeditionary Cyber — NEW START

**FY2027 planned work.** 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 systems. - Research into cyber-secure embedded auditable root-of-trust technologies for radio frequency-centric hardware to embed trust and assurance into expeditionary microelectronics.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** The increase in funding from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to the realignment and consolidation of all expeditionary funding requirements within PE 0601153N from planned program in Projects 1398 Ocean Atmosphere and Space Sciences, 1400 Power and Energy, 1501 Autonomy/AI, 1502 C5ISR/Naval Space, 1503 Directed Energy & Kinetic Systems, 1505 Human & Biological Systems, 1506 Materials/Electronics and 1507 Naval Aerospace into the new Project 1510 Expeditionary Campaign. Planned programs have been updated to align to current expeditionary priorities.

## What is NOT on this page

Congressional marks, the R-2 mission description and acquisition strategy, the industry vs government split of the whole request, and related program elements are recorded at **program-element** grain — an NDAA mark lands on a PE, never on a project. They are at https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601153N.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Navy RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0601153N project 1510 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0601153N")`.

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