What project 0000 buys
This Project focuses on reducing the time involved in conducting Mine Countermeasure (MCM) operations and increasing safe standoff from minefields. It develops and transitions technologies for MCM-related and UAEO-related Future Naval Capabilities (FNC). The MIW effort includes technologies for clandestine and overt minefield reconnaissance, organic ship self-protection, organic mine-hunting, neutralization/breaching and clearance. The Littoral Warfare effort includes critical warfighting functions such as C4ISR, fires, maneuver, sustainment. The sea mining effort emphasizes technologies for future sea mines. The Naval Special Warfare and Explosive Ordnance technology efforts concentrate on the development of technologies to enhance diver capabilities including: safe near-shore mine sensing, mobility and survivability, and ordnance disposal operations.
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 | 28.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 18.1 |
| FY2027 | Request | 24.6 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 26.6 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 26.6 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 27.9 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 28.3 |
4 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 autonomous vehicle development efforts for coupling autonomous vehicles with their sensor payloads. -Continue efforts to characterize flow generated by biomimetic propulsion approaches. -Continue development and demonstration of adaptive control systems for bio-inspired unmanned underwater vehicles advancing oscillating fin…
Read the FY2027 plan →FY2027 planned work -Continue Advanced Robotic Techniques efforts in advanced robotic technologies including development of human- like manipulators and haptics. The objective is to provide access to underwater, buried and surface munitions and enable standoff operations with high precision. -Continue sensor-tailored development and integration of air, surface and subsurface platforms to conduct operations in the littorals to improve diver situational awareness, mobility and safety, address drag reduction, diver propulsion, communications, navigation, thermal envelope, life support and contamination protection. -Continue Unmanned Systems Situational Awareness development of onboard processing in unmanned…
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to increased research in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning for detection, location and identification of Unexploded Ordnance and Unknown targets in complex mission areas and studies and material science to address defeat of multiple downed drones to support improved EOD warfighter effectiveness.
FY2026 plans — current year -Continue Advanced Robotic Techniques efforts in advanced robotic technologies including development of human- like manipulators and haptics. The objective is to provide access to underwater, buried and surface munitions and enable standoff operations with high precision. -Continue sensor-tailored development and integration of air, surface and subsurface platforms to conduct operations in the littorals to improve diver situational awareness, mobility and safety, address drag reduction, diver propulsion, communications, navigation, thermal envelope, life support and contamination protection. -Continue Ordnance Detection efforts for sensors to detect munitions and improvised explosive…
FY2027 planned work -Continue Target Detection Devices (Mine & Expeditionary Warfare): Continue efforts in developments in advanced sensors and algorithmic capabilities that are applicable toward existing Target Detection Devices (TDDs), development of concepts for remote controlled mines, and assessment of sea mine technologies in order to maintain a level of expertise in naval mines. Specific effort will include advanced sensing modalities for improved detection, classification, and discrimination. The objective is to achieve a miniaturized, highly capable TDD to advance legacy mine capacity. -Continue Naval Mine Subcomponents (Mine & Expeditionary Warfare): Continue efforts in alternative packaging and…
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to increased research in novel vehicle and payload integration capabilities for survivability at the seafloor, and within a dynamic seabed environment.
FY2026 plans — current year -Continue Target Detection Devices (Mine & Expeditionary Warfare): Continue efforts in developments in advanced sensors and algorithmic capabilities that are applicable toward existing Target Detection Devices (TDDs), development of concepts for remote controlled mines, and assessment of sea mine technologies in order to maintain a level of expertise in naval mines. Specific effort will include advanced sensing modalities for improved detection, classification, and discrimination. The objective is to achieve a miniaturized, highly capable TDD to advance legacy mine capacity. -Continue Naval Mine Subcomponents (Mine & Expeditionary Warfare): Continue efforts in alternative packaging and…
FY2027 planned work -Continue Rapid Neutralization of Mines and Obstacles effort in rapid neutralization of mines and obstacles including development of lethality and vulnerability models, technology concept assessments, and approaches for neutralization of mines and obstacles in all water depths, the surf zone, beach and inland. The objective is to enable maneuver of joint forces from ship to inland objective. -Continue Advanced Minesweeping effort including development of compact, efficient approaches for sweeping advanced influence mines. The objective is to increase the safe standoff of various tactical platforms and surface ships. -Continue Robotics development of robotic technologies to respond to…
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding decrease from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to reduced research in Advanced Energetics effort in development of advanced formulations to harness and be tailored for the undersea environment.
FY2026 plans — current year -Continue Rapid Neutralization of Mines and Obstacles effort in rapid neutralization of mines and obstacles including development of lethality and vulnerability models, technology concept assessments, and approaches for neutralization of mines and obstacles in all water depths, the surf zone, beach and inland. The objective is to enable maneuver of joint forces from ship to inland objective. -Continue Advanced Minesweeping effort including development of compact, efficient approaches for sweeping advanced influence mines. The objective is to increase the safe standoff of various tactical platforms and surface ships. -Continue Robotics development of robotic technologies to respond to…