What project 1507 buys
The Naval Aerospace 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.
Project 1507 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 | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 22.6 |
| FY2027 | Request | 42.2 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 35.5 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 23.4 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 14.5 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 8.0 |
3 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. 1 of them describes FY2027 work in enough detail to have its own page; the rest are shown here in full. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
- Continue performing a Mission Engineering Analysis and Operational Analysis (OA) to inform mission-level performance requirements. - Continue performing aerodynamic/thermal trajectory modeling and simulation to inform system materials capability and vehicle trajectory requirements. - Continue executing applied research and prototype…
Read the FY2027 plan →FY2027 planned work - Continue investigation into a suite of technologies leading to more robust shipboard recovery capabilities for air platforms (manned and unmanned). Efforts will center on technologies to enhance training. - Continue studying all phases of kill chain to determine which set of technologies (from detection through tracking to engagement) would provide most tactically effective, cost effective, and implementable solution for self-defense of high value, low density aircraft against next generation advanced threats. - Continue investigation into air platform concepts and technologies leading to greater operational capability for manned and unmanned aircraft, in particular enhanced range and…
FY2026 to FY2027 change The funding increase from FY 2026 to FY2027 is due to greater investment in technologies related to improving Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) shipboard operations and tactical utilization. There is also increased investment in technologies leading to maintaining and/or increasing operational availability (AO) of Fleet air assets.
FY2026 plans — current year Continue: - Investigating and maturing system of systems concepts and associated technologies necessary to fully implement manned-unmanned teaming operations. - Investigation into a suite of technologies leading to more robust shipboard recovery capabilities for air platforms (manned and unmanned). - Studying all phases of kill chain to determine which set of technologies (from detection through tracking to engagement) would provide most tactically effective, cost effective, and implementable solution for self-defense of high value, low density aircraft against next generation advanced threats. - Investigation into processes and techniques to improve production and/or repair of air vehicle…
FY2026 to FY2027 change The decrease in funding from FY 2026 to FY 2027 in STARDANCAR-M is due to program completion in FY 2026.
FY2026 plans — current year Complete - Risk Reduction Testing - Air Vehicle and Propulsion Model - Military Utility Study - Program Plan & Budget for INP Initiate/Complete - Numerical Propulsion System Simulation (NPSS) cycle deck model