# Project 1558 — Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle

**Program element:** 0603635M — Marine Corps Grnd Cmbt/Supt Sys  
**Project:** 1558  
**Component:** U.S. Navy  
**Appropriation:** 1319 — RDT&E, Navy  
**Budget Activity:** 4 — Advanced Component Development & Prototypes  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603635M/1558  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603635M

## Summary

Project 1558 — Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle requests $506.6M in FY2027, 97% of the $522.0M requested for program element 0603635M, up 174% on FY2026. 1 R-2A activity decomposes the request. General Dynamics is the largest named R-3 performer at $452.0M, 89% of the project's FY2027 R-3 total.

## Funding profile

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 51.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 184.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 506.6 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 263.9 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 232.9 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 200.3 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 148.4 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0603635M; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## What project 1558 buys

The Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle (ARV) program is designed to fill a pressing operational need with the Marine Corps portfolio of reconnaissance, surveillance, and target acquisition systems. The ARV will be a purpose-built combat system, highly mobile on land and water, that can sense, communicate, and fight in the performance of reconnaissance and battlespace shaping activities. Equipped with modern command, control, communications, and surveillance systems the ARV will transform the ability of Fleet Marine Forces to sense and communicate within the littoral operating environment by providing a persistent and mobile systems of systems to augment and sustain effective sensor webs and kill chains. The base program will consist of the following mission role variants (MRV): ARV-30mm (ARV-30), ARV-Command, Control, Communications and Computers/Unmanned Aerial Systems (C4UAS) and ARV-Logistics (LOG). The complete family of systems capability is planned to consist of 3 additional mission role variants with initiation in FY 2028: ARV-Recovery (R), ARV-Precision Fires (PF) and ARV-Counter Unmanned Aerial System (CUAS).

**R-3 lines of work:** Product Development; Support; Test and Evaluation; Management Services.

## Named R-3 performers

| Performer | $M | Share of this project's FY2027 R-3 total |
|---|---|---|
| General Dynamics | 452.0 | 89% |
| TACOM | 7.2 | 1.4% |

> Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations. Shares need not reach 100% — unnamed and government work is in the denominator.

## Activities (R-2A) — 1

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle | 51.3 | 184.9 | 506.6 | +174% | [a0](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603635M/1558/a0) |

> 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.

### Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle

-Incrementally fund 2 PPD agreements to Textron and GDLS for 16 systems each for a total of 32 systems -Continue to procure and deliver GFP (radios, satcom, turrets, guns, ammunition, etc.) -Begin sub-system level testing -Complete Critical Design Review (CDR) and approve design -Begin execution of provisioning conferences -Begin design…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603635M/1558/a0

## 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/0603635M.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Navy RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0603635M project 1558 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0603635M")`.

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