What project 1508 buys
This project develops and matures technologies that enable superior warfighting capabilities for surface and sub-surface naval platforms, undersea weapons and countermeasures, and Marine Corps technologies to a point where they can be proposed and continued as Future Naval Capabilities in program element (PE) 0603673N, Future Naval Capabilities Advanced Technology Development.
Project 1508 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 | 66.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 66.1 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 56.5 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 50.4 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 35.7 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 36.3 |
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.
Mine and Expeditionary Warfare: Initiate: -Develop ultra-low size, weight, and power (SWaP) computing payloads and machine learning algorithms for unmanned mine hunting systems. New hardware designs interfaced with sensors vastly improves automated seabed interrogation and perception. -Development of high area coverage rate mine warfare…
Read the FY2027 plan →Continue the Full Spectrum Undersea Warfare INP by working the following tasks: - Continue 3rd generation Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (UUV) virtual and in water testing - Demonstrate UUV & Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) autonomy, including UUV digital simulation - Conduct Undersea munitions effects characterization phase 2 - Finish Phase 1…
Read the FY2027 plan →FY2027 planned work - Continue: Otto Fuel Revision tech candidate. Improvement in fuel formulation for increased range of mission systems. - Continue: Next generation Subsea and Seabed Warfare (SSW) Weapons
FY2026 to FY2027 change Increase in funding in FY27 is due to increased research into Next generation Subsea and Seabed Warfare (SSW) Weapons
FY2026 plans — current year - Complete: Advanced Torpedo Tactics - Initiate: Otto Fuel Revision tech candidate. Improvement in fuel formulation for increased range of mission systems. - Initiate: Next generation Subsea and Seabed Warfare (SSW) Weapons
FY2026 to FY2027 change The funding decrease from FY2026 to FY2027 is due to the realignment of funding from the Mine and Expeditionary Warfare planned program to the Ocean Battlespace Sensing planned program within the same PE and Project. The purpose of this realignment is to better describe the research investments within this activity and to align to Navy priorities.
FY2026 plans — current year Complete: -Development of high area coverage rate mine warfare capability for contested environments to support naval maneuver in Western Pacific; this includes development of enabling machine learning algorithms, autonomous behavior, and hardware which enables autonomous systems to conduct long-duration, low-observable seabed surveys. - Development of a common encapsulation system supporting a variety of effectors; this includes technical development of effector capability, technical modification to support modular encapsulation, and technical investigation options associated with integrated delivery. - Development of advanced diagnostics, communications, endurance, and neutralization…
FY2026 to FY2027 change The funding decrease from FY2026 to FY2027 is due to the realignment of funding from the Undersea Warfare planned program to the Ocean Battlespace Sensing planned program within the same PE and Project. The purpose of this realignment is to better describe the research investments within this activity and to align to Navy priorities.
FY2026 plans — current year Complete: - In-water comparative analysis/testing of glider towed arrays for detection of ASW threats in the ocean environment; leverage emerging glider technologies for increased endurance and consider novel array fabrication to characterize best fit for variety of ocean environments. - Development of signal processing and displays to improve performance and reduce vulnerability for submarine active sonar. - Development of computational methods to detect very quiet submarine targets by combining evidence from multiple arrays. - Development of algorithms and software for making probabilistic USW-related sensor performance forecasts that can be used in strike group and theater anti-submarine…
FY2026 to FY2027 change The funding decrease from FY2026 to FY2027 is due to the realignment of funding from the Environmental Information Warfare planned program to the Ocean Battlespace Sensing planned program within the same PE and Project. The purpose of this realignment is to better describe the research investments within this activity and to align to Navy priorities.
FY2026 plans — current year Complete: - Development of algorithms and software for making probabilistic USW-related sensor performance forecasts that can be used in strike group and theater anti-submarine warfare mission plans. - Development of algorithms to assess and predict the impact of the atmospheric aerosols and turbulence on the performance of electro-optic and infra-red naval sensors. - Algorithm development for improved cloud visibility assessment by leveraging new government-owed, open architecture paradigm in Space-Based Environmental Monitoring (SBEM) data processing and delivery needed to improve timely, accurate decision making in the maritime battlespace environment. -To apply system learning to…
FY2026 to FY2027 change The decrease in funding from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to the realignment and consolidation of all expeditionary funding under PE 0602750N to the new Expeditionary Campaigns project number 1510 within this PE. Planned programs will continue under new Expeditionary Campaigns project number and have been updated to align to current expeditionary and marine corps priorities.
FY2026 plans — current year Complete: - Development of acoustic and non-acoustic sensors and transduction systems as a means to provide next-generation sensing technologies to provide undersea monitoring and tracking in the littorals by expeditionary forces. (Expeditionary Maneuver Warfare (EMW) and Combating Terrorism) - Development of automated sonar processing, sensor command and control, sensor networks, and data exfiltration in order to enable expeditionary Antisubmarine Warfare/Undersea Warfare systems in the littorals and maritime choke points. (Expeditionary Maneuver Warfare (EMW) and Combating Terrorism) - Development of night-time and low-light electro-optical sensors for real-time, computer vision based…