Project 2297
$166.3MFY2027 request ▼ 24%Futures Directorate
FY2025 actual$131.5M
FY2026 enacted$218.2M
FY2027 request$166.3M
FY2027 Request
$287.9M
▼ 36% vs FY2026
House mark
$292.9M
▼ $5.0M vs request
FY2026 Enacted
$448.0M
In law
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 $287.9M for MC Advanced Technology Demo under RDT&E program element 0603640M, down 36% from FY2026. In the FY2027 defense authorization, House moved to raise it to $292.9M.
Funding trajectory
Funding profile, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 287.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 448.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 287.9 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 241.3 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 254.3 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 257.5 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 261.5 |
Where it sits
Acquisition lifecycle
This program is funded in RDT&E Budget Activity 3 — Advanced Technology Development.
Complete
Research
BA 1–2
Current
Advanced Technology
BA 3
Later
Prototyping
BA 4
Later
Development & Fielding
BA 5–7
Inside the program element
4 projects roll up into PE 0603640M
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 -36% overall, which can hide much larger swings below.
Project 2223
$116.3MFY2027 request ▲ 35%Marine Corps ATD
FY2025 actual$99.5M
FY2026 enacted$86.3M
FY2027 request$116.3M
Project 2958
$5.3MFY2027 request ▲ 2%Cyberspace Activities
FY2025 actual$4.9M
FY2026 enacted$5.2M
FY2027 request$5.3M
Project 9999
$0.0MFY2027 request ▼ 100%Congressional Adds
FY2025 actual$51.1M
FY2026 enacted$138.2M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Congressional action
The request is contested
Committee marks on the FY2027 request. Adds and cuts are reconciled in conference before they become law.
RequestPresident's Budget
$287.9M
House NDAA (HASC)HASC
$292.9M +$5.0M · +1.7%
Senate NDAA (SASC)SASC
$327.9M +$40.0M · +14%
House Approps (HAC-D)HAC_D
$324.4M +$36.5M · +13%
▲ $35.0M chamber gap — unresolved as of 2026-07-27. These are FY2027 authorization marks (NDAA); appropriations and the conference agreement may differ.
Program detail
Mission & acquisition strategy
The United States Navy/Marine Corps team is the most potent naval fighting force in the world. Fundamental to their success are the technologies necessary for effective Distributed Maritime Operations (DMO), Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations (EABO), Littoral Operations in Contested Environments (LOCE), Joint Warfighting Concepts, Stand-In Forces, and Reconnaissance / Counter-Reconnaissance. The Office of Naval Research (ONR) combines knowledge of the naval mission with researchers to select and explore solutions critical to expeditionary warfighting needs.
Project 2297, 2223, 2958, 9999 — Futures Directorate
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FY2027 Department of the Navy RDT&E Budget Justification · Exhibits R-2 / R-3 · PE 0603640M (President's Budget PB2027) — and FY2027 NDAA committee marks, as tracked 2026-07-27.
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/programs/0603640M.md · MCP mcp.hitchintel.com → budget_get_program_element, budget_get_cong_marksFY2027 Request
$166.3M
▼ 24% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$218.2M
▲ 66% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$131.5M
Prior year
Futures Directorate — one RDT&E project inside PE 0603640M. Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, not on a project.
Project 2297 — Futures Directorate — requests $166.3M in FY2027, 58% of the $287.9M requested for program element 0603640M. Year over year it falls 24% against FY2026.
Funding trajectory
Project 2297 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 131.5 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 218.2 |
| FY2027 | Request | 166.3 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 125.2 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 124.8 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 126.1 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 127.9 |
Inside the project
6 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. Opening lines only here — the full year-by-year narrative is on the project page.
FY2025 actual$47.8M
FY2026 enacted$35.3M
FY2027 request$43.9M
Unmanned Logistics and Defense: - Continue development and experimentation with highly autonomous and synchronous logistics capabilities. Focus areas include development, testing, and experimentation with a semi-submersible craft designed to support a payload of 8 to 10 tons. - Continue to assess execution of high tempo unmanned…
Read the FY2027 plan →Fires, Targeting, and Maneuver▼ 95%
FY2025 actual$4.8M
FY2026 enacted$120.9M
FY2027 request$6.4M
Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV): - Continue to provide a multi-purposed UGV, with modular payload architectures. - Continue to integrate POR and non-POR payloads for the UGV platform that enhance dismounted units across the warfighting functions. - Continue to perform tests, demonstrations, and assessments prior to dedicated live-force…
Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF) Command, Control, Communications, and Computers (C4)▲ 87%
FY2025 actual$8.0M
FY2026 enacted$2.9M
FY2027 request$5.4M
Integrated C2: - Continue experimentation with an expeditionary transportable communications platform. Focus areas include providing disadvantaged units with an organic, persistent capability to receive, process, and disseminate digital information from organic sensors which provide connectivity to relevant/actionable target information…
FY2025 actual$16.5M
FY2026 enacted$13.9M
FY2027 request$28.8M
Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs): - Continue to explore, expand mission sets, and exploit the tactical potential of small UASs across multiple Marine Corps domains. Focus areas include lethality development. - Continue to explore Group 2 fixed wing and VTOL payload development. - Continue efforts to provide a highly automated/autonomously…
Read the FY2027 plan →FY2025 actual$22.3M
FY2026 enacted$24.2M
FY2027 request$23.9M
Technical Support: - Continue to provide a full range of overarching, lab-wide, engineering, analytical, technical, management, and business services; directly related to live-force experimentation. Focus areas include liaison with Fleet counterparts to identify operational shortfalls and requirements that need to be fulfilled by…
Read the FY2027 plan →Warfighting Excellence▲ 175%
FY2025 actual$32.1M
FY2026 enacted$21.0M
FY2027 request$57.8M
Wargaming: - Continue to sustain the WarNet stand-alone network to maintain the ability to conduct classified wargames "on the road". - Complete transition of principal wargaming functions to the sponsorship of the Marine Corps' Robert B. Neller Center for Wargaming and Analysis. This includes overall wargaming planning, coordination…
Read the FY2027 plan →Project detail
What project 2297 buys
The mission of the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory / Futures Directorate (MCWL/FD) is to examine future operating environments to generate threat-informed operating concepts and capabilities and, through experimentation, provide analytically supported recommendations to inform future force design and development activities. The Deputy Commandant, Combat Development and Integration (DC, CD&I) is the United States Marine Corps (USMC) advocate for Science and Technology (S&T). MCWL's Commanding General (CG) is the proponent of USMC S&T and serves as the USMC Executive Agent for Marine Corps S&T. The MCWL/FD also serves as the Marine Corps' liaison to the Joint Staff for Joint Concept Development and Experimentation; thereby, facilitating service-specific experiments as well as participation in joint service experimentation. As reflected in strategic guidance, expeditionary forces will provide an ever-ready quick strike force to protect United States (US) interests. MCWL/FD pursues concepts, capabilities, and solutions to ensure that Marines of the future force will be effectively organized, trained, and equipped to win across the range of military operations in an uncertain and complex environment. Prioritized investments in S&T are necessary to enable the future Marine Corps and maintain a technological advantage over our adversaries. This project is organized into 6 activities, the core of which are represented by the Warfighting Capability Areas of the Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF). The project emphasizes development and demonstration of advanced technology capability concepts, and the examination of their operational application and military utility in the context of formal wargames, Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis (MS&A), and live-force field experimentation with Marines. This operational experimentation directly supports Marine Corps combat development to inform future capability requirements and optimize the acquisition process.
FY2027 Request
$116.3M
▲ 35% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$86.3M
▼ 13% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$99.5M
Prior year
Marine Corps ATD — one RDT&E project inside PE 0603640M. Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, not on a project.
Project 2223 — Marine Corps ATD — requests $116.3M in FY2027, 40% of the $287.9M requested for program element 0603640M. Year over year it grows 35% against FY2026.
Funding trajectory
Project 2223 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 99.5 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 86.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 116.3 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 110.7 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 124.0 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 125.8 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 127.9 |
Inside the project
8 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. Opening lines only here — the full year-by-year narrative is on the project page.
Command, Control, Communications, Computers (C4)▲ 365%
FY2025 actual$11.4M
FY2026 enacted$1.7M
FY2027 request$7.9M
Continue: - Develop Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) functionality for Marine Corps platforms, command and control systems including combat identification, threat evaluation, engageability and effector management in a multi-platform Live Virtual & Constructive (LVC) experiment. - Development and advancement of new…
Firepower▲ 33%
FY2025 actual$11.4M
FY2026 enacted$10.2M
FY2027 request$13.6M
Continue: - Advanced development of integrated technologies for low-cost, extended range, precision guided munitions which will improve lethality and special effects payloads against various types of stationary and moving targets on land and water, as well as in satellite and network denied environments. - Development of extended range…
Read the FY2027 plan →Force Protection▼ 1%
FY2025 actual$11.4M
FY2026 enacted$15.4M
FY2027 request$15.2M
Continue: - Research effort looking at counters to autonomy and sensors/perception. - Advanced research that integrates and demonstrates sensors and systems to enable autonomous, multi-domain amphibious operations in mined and obstacle environments. - Research effort to provide a solid-state High-Power Microwave prototype in a form…
Read the FY2027 plan →FY2025 actual$7.8M
FY2026 enacted$7.1M
FY2027 request$10.2M
Continue: - Research developing and delivering scalable software applications and plug-and-play hardware components that enable customizable human performance collection, assessment, monitoring, and management to improve lethality and readiness. - Research and development in extended reality, synthetic agent(s), and training feedback…
Read the FY2027 plan →FY2025 actual$9.6M
FY2026 enacted$15.8M
FY2027 request$16.4M
Continue: - Develop a recommendation engine prototype to adapt strategies based on adversary actions. - Advanced technology development to evaluate operational utility of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) algorithms to improve decision making; and develop, demonstrate, and experiment with decision aids operating on…
Read the FY2027 plan →FY2025 actual$28.1M
FY2026 enacted$29.6M
FY2027 request$31.0M
Visual Integrated Tactical Logistics Battle Management Aid (VITL-BMA) (formerly named Dreamcatcher) - Complete transition and deployment of tactical logistics planner in USMC Marine Air Ground Task Forces Command and Control Android Tactical Assault Kit (ATAK) for Regiment and below users. - Complete the merge and enhancement of…
Read the FY2027 plan →Logistics▲ 5050%
FY2025 actual$10.3M
FY2026 enacted$0.2M
FY2027 request$10.3M
Continue: - Development of adaptive morphing materials that allow for tire overall stiffness control in less than three minutes. - Testing and demonstration of mission planning tactical logistics predictive and analytic tools at fleet exercises. Complete: - Research to advance the broad range of technologies to demonstrate the military…
Read the FY2027 plan →Maneuver▲ 85%
FY2025 actual$9.3M
FY2026 enacted$6.3M
FY2027 request$11.7M
Continue: - Develop advanced intelligent mobility technologies for ground and amphibious platforms to improve mobility and maneuverability across littoral and inland terrain. Demonstration platforms will continue to be utilized to assess potential future capabilities. - Develop unmanned swarming ground and amphibious platforms and…
Read the FY2027 plan →Project detail
What project 2223 buys
This project funds technology demonstration, experimentation, and prototyping; and more technologically mature projects within the Future Naval Capability (FNC) process as means to inform, enhance, enable, and invent future concepts and capabilities with new Science and Technology (S&T). This project is organized into ten activities, the core of which is represented by the eight Expeditionary Warfighting Capability Areas. Emphasized within this project are increased efforts to actively demonstrate advanced technologies and system concepts. These demonstrations and experiments focus on the specific technologies, not necessarily their operational application, and vary based on the technical maturity of the project. This early technology exposure gives Marines a view into the future and enables them to use their imagination and innovation to envision novel employment of the technology and inform the acquisition process.
FY2027 Request
$5.3M
▲ 1.8% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$5.2M
▲ 5.2% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$4.9M
Prior year
Cyberspace Activities — one RDT&E project inside PE 0603640M. Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, not on a project.
Project 2958 — Cyberspace Activities — requests $5.3M in FY2027, 1.8% of the $287.9M requested for program element 0603640M. Year over year it grows 1.8% against FY2026.
Funding trajectory
Project 2958 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 4.9 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 5.2 |
| FY2027 | Request | 5.3 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 5.4 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 5.5 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 5.6 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 5.7 |
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.
Expeditionary Cyber▲ 2%
FY2025 actual$4.9M
FY2026 enacted$5.2M
FY2027 request$5.3M
FY2027 planned work Continue: - Cyber related research into mitigation techniques related to United States Marine Corps (USMC) systems. - Advanced research to better identify key cyber terrain at the physical, logical, and cyber persona layers that can be visualized at small unit level. - Develop Radio Frequency (RF) enabled Electronic Warfare (EW)/cyber networking that will deliver actions at scale through the integration of secure orchestration, cyber secure sensors, and resilient networking technologies. - Develop non-traditional platform integration of Cyber-EW capabilities. - Research into novel techniques for the exploitation of information technology devices for warfighting utilization by distributed…
FY2026 to FY2027 change There is no significant funding change from FY 2026 to FY 2027.
FY2026 plans — current year - Continue cyber related research into mitigation techniques related to United States Marine Corps (USMC) systems. - Continue advanced research to better identify key cyber terrain at the physical, logical, and cyber persona layers that can be visualized at small unit level. - Continue research to develop of Radio Frequency (RF) enabled Electronic Warfare (EW)/cyber networking that will deliver actions at scale through the integration of secure orchestration, cyber secure sensors, and resilient networking technologies. - Continue research to develop non-traditional platform integration of Cyber-EW capabilities. - Continue research into novel techniques for the exploitation of information…
Project detail
What project 2958 buys
This Project activity provides freedom of maneuver and influence in the cyber-electronic warfare domain while simultaneously denying the same to the adversary and protecting critical command systems. Technologies are being developed using a multi-disciplinary approach that combines Radio Frequency electronics, digital signal processing, computer engineering, software engineering, machine learning and data science to support Naval Expeditionary warfighters operating with size, weight and power constrained equipment in Disrupted, Intermittent, Limited environments. Areas of applied research include distributed precision time, predictive software defined radio architectures, coordinated Cyber and Spectrum maneuver to mitigate detection and exploitation, tactical Cyber visualization, discovering and mapping networks in dense urban environments, contextual awareness and blind channel characterization.
FY2027 Request
$0.0M
▼ 100% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$138.2M
▲ 171% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$51.1M
Prior year
Congressional Adds — one RDT&E project inside PE 0603640M. 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 $287.9M requested for program element 0603640M. Year over year it falls 100% against FY2026.
Funding trajectory
Project 9999 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 51.1 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 138.2 |
| 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.