# Project 0000 — Mine and Expeditionary Warfare Applied Research

**Program element:** 0602782N — Mine and Expeditionary Warfare Applied Research  
**Project:** 0000  
**Component:** U.S. Navy  
**Appropriation:** 1319 — RDT&E, Navy  
**Budget Activity:** 2 — Applied Research  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602782N/0000  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602782N

## Summary

Project 0000 — Mine and Expeditionary Warfare Applied Research requests $24.6M in FY2027, 100% of the $24.6M requested for program element 0602782N, up 36% on FY2026. 4 R-2A activities decompose the request.

## Funding profile

| 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 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0602782N; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## 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.

## Activities (R-2A) — 4

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mine/Obstacle Detection | 15.4 | 9.4 | 13.2 | +40% | [a1](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602782N/0000/a1) |
| Special Warfare/EOD | 10.4 | 7.4 | 9.2 | +25% | — |
| Mine Technology | 2.1 | 0.2 | 1.8 | +693% | — |
| Mine/Obstacle Neutralization | 0.4 | 1.0 | 0.4 | −62% | — |

> 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.

### Mine/Obstacle Detection

-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…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602782N/0000/a1

### Special Warfare/EOD

**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 systems to enable environmental situational awareness (SA) in the littorals. - Initiate Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning for detection, location and identification of Unexploded Ordnance and Unknown targets in complex mission areas. This development, coupled with advanced sensing and autonomy will shorten the clearance of unexploded ordnance and increase warfighter effectiveness through increased standoff and reduced time on target. -Initiate studies and material science to address defeat of multiple downed drones to support improved EOD warfighter effectiveness. This will support continuance of Rapid Operational Clearance efforts to develop technologies to rapidly clear operational areas of munitions, including downed drones. The objective is to decrease the amount of time needed for services to clear munitions and conduct clearance operations at standoff. Continue Ordnance Detection efforts for sensors to detect munitions and improvised explosive devices. Specific efforts include compact electromagnetic, optical and next generation magnetometer sensors which are hand-held or robot deployable. The objective is to improve performance by achieving a lower false alarm rates and higher probability of detection. -Continue Sensor Techniques effort to develop compact sensor technologies to diagnose explosive threats and unexploded ordnance including the development of hand-held or robot deployable sensor technologies. The objective is to determine the status of explosive threats and unexploded ordnance. -Continue Neutralization Explosive Threats effort to develop technologies to enable render-safe, disruption or neutralization of explosive threats and unexploded ordnance. The objective is to enable precision render-safe or neutralization operations at standoff distances.

**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 devices. Specific efforts include compact electromagnetic, optical and next generation magnetometer sensors which are hand-held or robot deployable. The objective is to improve performance by achieving a lower false alarm rates and higher probability of detection. -Continue Sensor Techniques effort to develop compact sensor technologies to diagnose explosive threats and unexploded ordnance including the development of hand-held or robot deployable sensor technologies. The objective is to determine the status of explosive threats and unexploded ordnance. -Continue Neutralization Explosive Threats effort to develop technologies to enable render-safe or neutralization of explosive threats and unexploded ordnance. The objective is to enable precision render-safe or neutralization operations at standoff distances. -Continue Unmanned Systems Situational Awareness development of onboard processing in unmanned systems to enable environmental situational awareness (SA) in the littorals. -Continue Rapid Operational Clearance efforts to develop technologies to rapidly clear operational areas of munitions. The objective is to decrease the amount of time needed for services to clear munitions and conduct clearance operations at standoff.

### Mine Technology

**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 miniaturization of naval mine subcomponents. Specific efforts include advanced sensing, remote control and communications, and advanced energetics. The objective is to achieve alternative capability to incrementally advance legacy mine capacity and find new capability within legacy delivery mechanisms. -Initiate investigation in novel vehicle and payload integration capabilities for survivability at the seafloor, and within a dynamic seabed environment. The objective is an enduring applied research investment in undersea lethality and enabling research thrusts as applied to the seabed environment, as well as those systems operating in the volume.

**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 miniaturization of naval mine subcomponents. Specific efforts include advanced sensing, remote control and communications, and advanced energetics. The objective is to achieve alternative capability to incrementally advance legacy mine capacity and find new capability within legacy delivery mechanisms.

### Mine/Obstacle Neutralization

**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 detected targets including work on dexterity, haptics, and algorithms to achieve human-like behaviors. The objective is to interact with the mine and/or obstacle to achieve target neutralization, clearance, render-safe or removal for exploitation. Continue Advanced Energetics effort in development of advanced formulations to harness and be tailored for the undersea environment. Continue development in integration and tailoring of advanced energetic payloads to various autonomous systems and platforms, to include enabling capabilities like Size, Weight and Power (SWaP) requirements, and communications capabilities. The objective is an enduring applied research investment in undersea lethality and its enabling research thrusts as applied to the seabed environment, as well as those systems operating in the volume.

**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 detected targets including work on dexterity, haptics, and algorithms to achieve human-like behaviors. The objective is to interact with the mine and/or obstacle to achieve target neutralization, clearance, render-safe or removal for exploitation. -Initiate Advanced Energetics effort in development of advanced formulations to harness and be tailored for the undersea environment. Initiate development in integration and tailoring of advanced energetic payloads to various autonomous systems and platforms, to include enabling capabilities like Size, Weight and Power (SWaP) requirements, and communications capabilities. The objective is an enduring applied research investment in undersea lethality and its enabling research thrusts as applied to the seabed environment, as well as those systems operating in the volume.

## 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/0602782N.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Navy RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0602782N project 0000 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0602782N")`.

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