Project 0304
$25.4MFY2027 request NEWTechnology Maturation and Transition
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$25.4M
Product DevelopmentManagement Services
FY2027 Request
$32.3M
▲ 67% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$19.3M
▲ 183% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$6.8M
Prior year
Roll-up of 4 projects. Projects are the summable leaves — the PE total is their sum, never added to it.
For fiscal year 2027, the U.S. Navy is requesting $32.3M for Advanced Combat Systems Tech under RDT&E program element 0603382N, up 67% over FY2026.
Funding trajectory
Funding profile, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 6.8 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 19.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 32.3 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 32.6 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 41.2 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 70.7 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 67.4 |
Where it sits
Acquisition lifecycle
This program is funded in RDT&E Budget Activity 4 — Advanced Component Development & Prototypes.
Complete
Research
BA 1–2
Complete
Advanced Technology
BA 3
Current
Prototyping
BA 4
Later
Development & Fielding
BA 5–7
Inside the program element
4 projects roll up into PE 0603382N
Projects are the summable leaves — the PE total is their sum, never added to it. Program elements and projects carry the full five-year plan; activities stop at the budget year. This PE moves 67% overall, which can hide much larger swings below.
Project 0303
$4.9MFY2027 request NEWTactical Adv for the Next Generation (TANG)
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$4.9M
Product DevelopmentManagement Services
Project 0324
$2.0MFY2027 request RESTARTAdv Combat System Technology
FY2025 actual$2.0M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$2.0M
Product DevelopmentManagement Services
Project 9999
$0.0MFY2027 request ▼ 100%Congressional Adds
FY2025 actual$4.8M
FY2026 enacted$19.3M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Product DevelopmentSupport
Congressional action
Congressional marks
Committee marks on the FY2027 request. Adds and cuts are reconciled in conference before they become law.
RequestPresident's Budget
$32.3M
House NDAA (HASC)HASC
$38.3M +$6.0M · +19%
Senate NDAA (SASC)SASC
$32.3M full · +$0
House Approps (HAC-D)HAC_D
$41.9M +$9.6M · +30%
▲ $9.6M chamber gap — unresolved as of 2026-07-27. These are FY2027 authorization marks (NDAA); appropriations and the conference agreement may differ.
Who's building it
Where the FY2027 request goes
Performers named in the R-3 exhibit, resolved into industry, government-lab, and unspecified shares. Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations.
| Where FY2027 funding flows | Share | $M |
|---|---|---|
| Industry primes | 2.9% | 0.9 |
| Government labs & warfare centers | 16% | 5.1 |
| Other / unspecified | 81% | 26.2 |
| FY2027 request | 100% | 32.3 |
Program detail
Mission & acquisition strategy
Project 0303: Tactical Advancements for the Next Generation (TANG) is a Navy-wide innovation project that has expanded throughout the Department of War (DoW) that addresses mission-driven, human-centered challenges for warfighters and developers. TANG drives front-end innovation for national security utilizing emerging technologies including Extended Reality (XR) and Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML).
This is a non-ACAT program. This project has been a Navy Acquisition Executive directed effort to fundamentally alter the business, technical and policy environment for warfare systems acquisition to result in improved affordability, increased access to innovation, a reduction in time to field, improved operational availability, agility, and promote cultural environment change. The Navy's OSA Enterprise effort is built off of past successes such as the Acoustic Rapid Commercial-off-the-Shelf Insertion (ARCI) program policy statement dated 5 August 2004, the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (DCNO) requirement dated 23 December 2005, and the Naval OSA Strategy of 2013) and is now being extended and scaled for applicability across the Department of the…
Project 0304, 0303, 0324, 9999 — Technology Maturation and Transition
- Product Development
- Management Services
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/programs/0603382N.md · MCP mcp.hitchintel.com → budget_get_program_element, budget_get_cong_marksFY2027 Request
$25.4M
No FY2026 funding
FY2026 Enacted
$0.0M
No FY2025 funding
FY2025 Actual
$0.0M
Prior year
Technology Maturation and Transition — one RDT&E project inside PE 0603382N. Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, not on a project.
Project 0304 — Technology Maturation and Transition — requests $25.4M in FY2027, 79% of the $32.3M requested for program element 0603382N. It is a new start — no prior-year or current-year money.
Funding trajectory
Project 0304 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 25.4 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 23.9 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 32.3 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 61.8 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 58.3 |
Inside the project
1 accomplishment / planned program
The R-2A exhibit. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan — and they are descriptive: coverage is partial and they do not always add back to the project, so count them, never total them. Opening lines only here — the full year-by-year narrative is on the project page.
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$25.4M
Funds experimentation, demonstration and prototyping of technologies across warfighting domains. -Support prototyping and experimentation of modular, containerized capabilities to evaluate effectiveness in support of multiple missions -Accelerate the ability to expand undersea and surface communications networks as required for future…
Read the FY2027 plan →Who's building it
Named performers on project 0304
Performers named in the R-3 exhibit under this project. Share is of the project's whole FY2027 R-3 total — the same denominator the program-element split uses, so the two read on one scale and will not sum to 100% when unnamed or government work is in the mix. Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations.
TDT
$0.4M · 1.5%
Project detail
What project 0304 buys
Technology Maturation and Transition: Funds vetted and endorsed experimentation, demonstration and prototyping of technologies and capabilities based on projects curated from initiatives throughout the joint and USN innovation portfolio. Projects align with National Defense Strategy (NDS), Chief of Naval Operations and Fleet priorities and receive USN endorsement based on a rigorous vetting process and the closure of critical capability gaps. Projects are cross-domain and accelerate integration of high priority technologies to enable transition into Programs of Record and support warfighter needs.
R-3 lines of work
- Product Development
- Management Services
FY2027 Request
$4.9M
No FY2026 funding
FY2026 Enacted
$0.0M
No FY2025 funding
FY2025 Actual
$0.0M
Prior year
Tactical Adv for the Next Generation (TANG) — one RDT&E project inside PE 0603382N. Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, not on a project.
Project 0303 — Tactical Adv for the Next Generation (TANG) — requests $4.9M in FY2027, 15% of the $32.3M requested for program element 0603382N. It is a new start — no prior-year or current-year money.
Funding trajectory
Project 0303 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 4.9 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 6.7 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 6.8 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 6.8 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 6.9 |
Inside the project
1 accomplishment / planned program
The R-2A exhibit. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan — and they are descriptive: coverage is partial and they do not always add back to the project, so count them, never total them.
TANG Innovative Design and Concept TransitionNEW
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$4.9M
FY2027 planned work - Manage 12-15 unique TANG projects in various stages of the three-phase process covering topics including: enterprise modernization (ex. reimagining organizational structures), physical space efficiency analysis (ex. redesign of the surface bridge utilizing Extended Reality (XR)), or addressing process challenges (ex. improving and streamlining tasks in the design, construction, modernization, and maintenance of Submarines). - Engage stakeholders, end-users, and experts across various Navy platforms, missions, and systems to uncover pain points and opportunities via the Discovery Phase (Phase 1 - Co-Discovering Opportunities). - Facilitate design workshops and conduct analogous research…
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding for the TANG project has moved from PE 0603758N, Project 2918 to PE 0603382N, Project 0303 effective FY 2027. The increase from FY 2026 (in PE 0603758N) to FY 2027 (in PE 0603382N) is required to keep pace with the demand signal from stakeholders across DoW and invest in technologies like Extended Reality (XR) and Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML).
Who's building it
Named performers on project 0303
Performers named in the R-3 exhibit under this project. Share is of the project's whole FY2027 R-3 total — the same denominator the program-element split uses, so the two read on one scale and will not sum to 100% when unnamed or government work is in the mix. Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations.
KMS Solutions
$0.2M · 4.6%
Project detail
What project 0303 buys
Tactical Advancements for the Next Generation (TANG) projects solve mission-focused, human-centered challenges leveraging a divergent-convergent process (e.g., design thinking) via three-phased approach. TANG harnesses the expertise and perspective of the user, subject matter experts, stakeholders, and industry partners, to ideate and create new actionable concepts and transition prototypes and solutions that will impact the DoW. Phase I - Co-Discovering Opportunities: Engage stakeholders, end-users, and experts to uncover pain points and opportunities. Conduct domain research, interviews, and observations to build operational context. The output of Phase I includes a Phase I Primer (project introduction for stakeholders), Insights & Opportunities Document (prioritized problem framing and "How Might We" questions), and a Phase I Alignment Sprint (validates findings and aligns with sponsors on focus areas). Phase II - Co-Creating Concepts: Facilitate Design Workshops with multi-disciplinary participants (users, sponsors, SMEs) to co-create potential solutions. Conduct analogous research (drawing inspiration from other industries) to expand creative thinking. The output of Phase II includes a Concepts Deep Dive (refined concepts and a strategic vision for the future) and a Phase II Alignment Sprint (prioritizes concepts and sets direction for prototyping). Phase III - Co-Developing Solutions: Build low-risk, low-cost prototypes of selected concepts and conduct iterative experimentation cycles with users. Host User Feedback Workshops to gather insights and refine solutions until transition-ready. the output of Phase III is Design Prototypes & Experiments (tested solutions) and a Transition Document (implementation-ready plan with ownership, next steps, and success metrics).
R-3 lines of work
- Product Development
- Management Services
FY2027 Request
$2.0M
No FY2026 funding
FY2026 Enacted
$0.0M
▼ 100% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$2.0M
Prior year
Adv Combat System Technology — one RDT&E project inside PE 0603382N. Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, not on a project.
Project 0324 — Adv Combat System Technology — requests $2.0M in FY2027, 6.1% of the $32.3M requested for program element 0603382N.
Funding trajectory
Project 0324 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 2.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 2.0 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 2.0 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 2.1 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 2.1 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 2.1 |
Inside the project
3 accomplishments / planned programs
The R-2A exhibit. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan — and they are descriptive: coverage is partial and they do not always add back to the project, so count them, never total them.
OSA Prototyping and DemonstrationRESTART
FY2025 actual$0.6M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.3M
FY2027 planned work - Initiate providing systems engineering support and analysis to coordinate the prototyping, demonstration, scaling, and integration of supporting Modular Open Systems Approaches (MOSA) capabilities and standards into the Navy's enterprise digital engineering technologies and digital warfighting systems, with associated software development practices, policy changes, and standards development that enable improved test and evaluation, validation, verification, and certification of naval systems. - Initiate developing prototypes to enable system/program modeling/architecture work/transition to engineering enterprise environments.
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding increase from FY2026 to FY2027 is due to initiation of systems engineering analysis of capabilities and standards into the Navy's enterprise digital engineering technologies and digital warfighting systems.
OSA Scaling, Integration, and AlignmentRESTART
FY2025 actual$1.1M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.9M
FY2027 planned work - Initiate providing systems engineering support and analysis to coordinate the prototyping, demonstration, scaling, and integration of supporting OSA capabilities and standards into the Navy's enterprise digital engineering technologies and digital warfighting systems, with associated software development practices, policy changes, and standards development that enable improved test and evaluation, validation, verification, and certification of naval systems. - Initiate developing modeling and architecture guidelines to support scaling and integration. - Initiate developing advanced security schemas and cyber security testing capabilities. - Initiate enhancements and integration of the…
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding increase from FY2026 to FY2027 is due to development of modeling and architecture guidelines to support scaling and integration, development of advanced security schemas and cyber security testing, and enhancements of the Naval Digital Engineering Body of Knowledge.
OSA Systems Engineering and AnalysisRESTART
FY2025 actual$0.3M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.8M
FY2027 planned work - Initiate providing systems engineering support and analysis to coordinate the prototyping, demonstration, and integration of supporting MOSA capabilities and standards into the Navy's enterprise digital engineering technologies and digital warfighting systems, with associated software development practices, policy changes, and standards development that enable improved test and evaluation, validation, verification, and certification of naval systems. - Initiate the use of MBSE in conjunction with additional modeling environments to accurately capture design changes required for SoS integration and employ existing capabilities in new advanced combat system capabilities, evaluate mission…
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding increase from FY2026 to FY2027 is due to systems engineering support and analysis to Modular Open Systems Approaches (MOSA) capabilities into the Navy's enterprise digital engineering technologies and digital warfighting systems and the use of MBSE and modeling environments.
Who's building it
Named performers on project 0324
Performers named in the R-3 exhibit under this project. Share is of the project's whole FY2027 R-3 total — the same denominator the program-element split uses, so the two read on one scale and will not sum to 100% when unnamed or government work is in the mix. Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations.
WFCs
$0.3M · 16%
Project detail
What project 0324 buys
This funding supports the implementation of the Naval Open Systems Architecture (OSA) Strategy. The Navy's implementation of OSA and similar constructs like Modular Open Systems Approaches (MOSA). The OSA transformation effort will be applied to programs of record. Those elements include ensuring that naval systems, families of systems, programs, and prototypes move to MOSA in accordance with DoW Memo 7 Nov 2025, Joint Memo 17 Dec 2024, 10 USC 4402 5 Nov 2025, and SECNAV Instruction 5000.2G (Department of the Navy Implementation of the Defense Acquisition System, 08 April 2022) which mandates that all DoW programs utilize MOSA to field affordable and interoperable systems. This project facilitates a strategic shift to digitally engineered modular systems deployment. This improves innovation and economies of scale throughout the Navy and Marine Corps. This project includes identification of use cases and cost avoidance the benefits as a result of moving the Navy towards an open systems approach, supported by the development of open systems technologies and integrated best operational and technical practices for open systems development within Naval acquisition. Naval MOSA ensures system architectures become extensible and scalable in function, capacity, and workload to meet Service and Joint warfighting requirements. This also includes the identification and development of common software components, functions, reuse methodologies, and extensible product lines. Open architectures set the standard for technology fields to promote interoperability. The Advanced Combat System Technology line advances the principles of modular design and design disclosure, reusable application software, interoperability and secure information exchange, lifecycle affordability and encouraging standardization.
R-3 lines of work
- Product Development
- Management Services
FY2027 Request
$0.0M
▼ 100% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$19.3M
▲ 300% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$4.8M
Prior year
Congressional Adds — one RDT&E project inside PE 0603382N. Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, not on a project.
Project 9999 — Congressional Adds — requests $0.0M in FY2027, 0.0% of the $32.3M requested for program element 0603382N. Year over year it falls 100% against FY2026.
Funding trajectory
Project 9999 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 4.8 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 19.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 0.0 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 0.0 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 0.0 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 0.0 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 0.0 |
Project detail
What project 9999 buys
Congressional add projects not included in other efforts.
R-3 lines of work
- Product Development
- Support