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.
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.
| 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 |
8 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. 7 of them describe FY2027 work in enough detail to have their own page; the rest are shown here in full. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →FY2027 planned work 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 capabilities to create realistic scenarios, simulate social dynamics, adjudication capabilities, together with models and algorithms to support realistic, interactive information warfare exercises. - Force-on-force unscripted experimentation of AI-augmented Command and Control (C2) systems for "one versus many" swarm control in small unit (company and below)…
FY2026 to FY2027 change The increase in funding from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to the initiation of efforts (1) to implement propagation environment aware signature management and communication planning over land for small, forward-deployed units under the Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations (EABO) (2) demonstrate strategic counter-gray Grey Z tools and techniques that anticipate and counter destabilizing threats.
FY2026 plans — current year - Continue research and development of 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. - Continue development and advancement of new capabilities to create realistic scenarios, simulate social dynamics, adjudication capabilities, together with models and algorithms to support realistic, interactive information warfare exercises. - Complete new low-profile and reduced weight and power aperture with simultaneous transmit and receive signals compatible with…