What project 0000 buys
U.S. Sailors are the Navy's main weapons system. Their skill, resilience and courage remain our greatest asymmetric advantage. This Program Element (PE) supports research that advances decision aides, autonomy, human-machine teaming, augmented performance, command and control and protective equipment to ensure Sailors outthink, outperform and outfight adversaries in a complex, maritime environment. This PE also supports developments in biotechnologies, biomanufacturing, and advanced materials technologies to provide new options to enhance performance of Sailors and their platforms. This PE also supports the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Global mission to serve as the preeminent external facilitator for the Naval Research Enterprise. This is accomplished by establishing quality, relevant connections amongst the international research and development community, Naval fleet/forces, DOW, other U.S. Government agencies, industry, and international partners.
Project 0000 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 | 76.2 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 74.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 60.4 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 68.2 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 72.0 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 68.8 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 69.6 |
7 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.
- Continue to have Science Advisors (SA) working across the NRE to help shape the DON investment strategy in science and technology. They work to develop relationships that support rapid prototyping, experimentation, and transitioning technology, based on the requirements and needs of the Fleet / Force. Continue communication and…
Read the FY2027 plan →Materials: - Continue advanced materials, processes and capabilities. - Continue ongoing research efforts to improve affordability and reliability of piezoelectric transduction materials. The focus will be on Acoustic Transduction Materials Technology to reduce size, weight, and power (SWaP) and improve sensitivity of sensors and SONAR…
Read the FY2027 plan →FY2027 planned work Medical Technologies - Complete to conduct applied research into the use of novel technologies to improve Sailor survivability in the maritime domain including Sailor-integrated biomedical and environmental sensing prototype systems to augment human resilience and survivability. - Continue to conduct applied research on autonomous recovery, care, and transportation of impaired/injured personnel during operations ashore and afloat to improve casualty survival. - Continue application of novel quantification methods for soft biological materials to enable bio-accurate simulation of organs and tissues in human digital twin representations. - Initiate incorporation of human digital twins for…
FY2026 to FY2027 change The decrease in funding from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to the completion of research using underwater ultrasound devices for the generation of individualized decompression profiles and research on biomedical and environmental sensing prototype systems.
FY2026 plans — current year Medical Technologies - Complete modeling, microelectronics and novel composite materials for biomedical sensing to prototype equipment to protect, sense, respond, and enhance human survivability. - Complete experimental trials of autonomous fluid resuscitation and ventilation algorithms for closed loop autonomous casualty care devices. - Continue to conduct applied research into the use of novel technologies to improve warfighter survivability in the maritime domain including warfighter-integrated biomedical and environmental sensing prototype systems to augment human resilience and survivability. - Continue to conduct applied research on autonomous recovery, care, and transportation of…
FY2027 planned work Technologies for Naval Training - Complete research to assess speech-to-text technologies on tactical communications in multiple representative Naval Command and Control (C2) environments and investigate use of these technologies for automated After-Action Review (AAR). - Continue applied research on adaptive/individualized training techniques for complex Naval domains using virtual training. Advanced Integrated Maritime Mission Modeling - Complete applied research and validation of computational approaches for automated compression of meteorological and oceanographic scenario data for use in Live, Virtual, and Constructive training to increase fidelity. - Complete to develop a web-based…
FY2026 to FY2027 change The decrease in funding from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to completion of research using cyber and other non-kinetic effects (NKE) training approaches.
FY2026 plans — current year Technologies for Naval Training - Initiate research to assess speech-to-text technologies on tactical communications in multiple representative Naval Command and Control (C2) environments and investigate use of these technologies for automated After-Action Review (AAR). - Initiate applied research on adaptive/individualized training techniques for complex domains using virtual training. Advanced Integrated Maritime Mission Modeling - Continue conducting applied research to understand performance metrics, data collection techniques, and analysis approaches that can be used to assess warfighter readiness. - Continue to conduct applied research and validate computational approaches for…
FY2027 planned work Cognitive Science for Human-Machine Teaming (previously represented under Cognitive Science for Human-Machine Teaming and Computational Neuroscience heading) - Continue to study approaches to incorporate cognitive architectures and visual reasoning processes on robotic teammates to enable enhanced cooperative behaviors in Naval operations. - Continue to assess feasibility of incorporating realistic neural systems into Navy autonomous systems for robust on-board scene understanding, communication and intelligence. - Continue to conduct applied research to develop agile humanoid robot teammates with enhancements including: (i) Embedding camera-based computer vision for scene understanding…
FY2026 to FY2027 change The increase in funding from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to an increased investment in developing strategic competition models across naval, joint, interagency, and allied partner data sources, along with the initiation of efforts to develop course-of-action decision support to co-pilots in complex operations, and validation of predictive models for the prevention of harmful behaviors in sailors.
FY2026 plans — current year Cognitive Science for Human-Machine Teaming and Computational Neuroscience - Complete applied research on system interface designs and human-machine interaction methodologies that enable or enhance Naval Warfighter performance and human-machine teaming. - Continue to study approaches to incorporate cognitive architectures and visual reasoning processes on robotic teammates to enable enhanced cooperative behaviors. - Continue to assess feasibility of incorporating realistic neural systems into autonomous systems for robust on-board scene understanding, communication and intelligence. - Continue to conduct applied research to develop agile humanoid robot teammates with enhancements including…
FY2027 planned work Bioinspired Autonomous Systems - Complete research application of flexible batteries to power underwater vehicles. - Continue to apply bio-inspired principles to design amphibious vehicles. - Continue to conduct applied research on bio-inspired underwater vehicle propulsion and control as an effective alternative to current propulsion approaches. - Continue harvesting of ocean wave- and current flow-energy to power underwater bio-inspired vehicle prototypes for longer duration missions. Naval Biosciences and Synthetic Biology for Naval Applications - Continue applied research in bioengineering microbial hosts and new pathways for the biomanufacturing of Naval-relevant materials (e.g…
FY2026 to FY2027 change The decrease in funding from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to the completion of efforts using flexible batteries to power underwater vehicles.
FY2026 plans — current year Bioinspired Autonomous Systems - Complete search behavior algorithms for autonomous vehicles to enhance object detection and recognition abilities. - Continue to apply bio-inspired principles to design amphibious vehicles. - Continue to conduct applied research on bio-inspired underwater vehicle propulsion and control as an effective alternative to current propulsion approaches. - Continue to investigate application of flexible batteries to power underwater vehicles. - Initiate harvesting of ocean wave- and current flow-energy to power underwater bio-inspired vehicle prototypes for longer duration missions. Naval Biosciences and Synthetic Biology for Naval Applications - Complete applied…
FY2027 planned work - Continue Program Management of the DON Research Protections Information Technology Management System (RPITMS) for management and compliance oversight of ongoing human research protections activities, as well as the ONR HRPP's web-based research ethics training program (Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI)); annually this required training is completed by more than 6,000 Navy and Marine Corps personnel. - Continue providing education and training programs in human research ethics to all levels of staff involved in the review, approval, conduct, support or management of DON human subjects' research. - Continue to conduct site visits (site inspections and assist visits) to…
FY2026 to FY2027 change The decrease in funding from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to a rebalancing of naval S&T priorities and a reduction in planned contracting costs for the Human Research Protection Program.
FY2026 plans — current year - Continue Program Management of the DON Research Protections Information Technology Management System (RPITMS) for management and compliance oversight of ongoing human research protections activities, as well as the ONR HRPP's web-based research ethics training program (Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI)); annually this required training is completed by more than 6,000 Navy and Marine Corps personnel. - Continue providing education and training programs in human research ethics to all levels of staff involved in the review, approval, conduct, support or management of DON human subjects' research. - Continue to conduct site visits (site inspections and assist visits) to…