# Project 2223 — Marine Corps ATD **Program element:** 0603640M — MC Advanced Technology Demo **Project:** 2223 **Component:** U.S. Navy **Appropriation:** 1319 — RDT&E, Navy **Budget Activity:** 3 — Advanced Technology Development **Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027 **Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603640M/2223 **Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603640M ## Summary Project 2223 — Marine Corps ATD requests $116.3M in FY2027, 40% of the $287.9M requested for program element 0603640M, up 35% on FY2026. 8 R-2A activities decompose the request. ## Funding profile | Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($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 | > Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0603640M; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them. ## 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. ## Activities (R-2A) — 8 | Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | USMC Future Naval Capabilities | 28.1 | 29.6 | 31.0 | +5% | [a5](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603640M/2223/a5) | | Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) | 9.6 | 15.8 | 16.4 | +4% | [a4](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603640M/2223/a4) | | Force Protection | 11.4 | 15.4 | 15.2 | −1% | [a2](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603640M/2223/a2) | | Firepower | 11.4 | 10.2 | 13.6 | +33% | [a1](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603640M/2223/a1) | | Maneuver | 9.3 | 6.3 | 11.7 | +85% | [a7](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603640M/2223/a7) | | Logistics | 10.3 | 0.2 | 10.3 | +5050% | [a6](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603640M/2223/a6) | | Human Performance, Training and Education | 7.8 | 7.1 | 10.2 | +44% | [a3](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603640M/2223/a3) | | Command, Control, Communications, Computers (C4) | 11.4 | 1.7 | 7.9 | +365% | — | > 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. ### USMC Future Naval Capabilities 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… Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603640M/2223/a5 ### Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) 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… Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603640M/2223/a4 ### Force Protection 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… Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603640M/2223/a2 ### Firepower 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… Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603640M/2223/a1 ### Maneuver 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… Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603640M/2223/a7 ### Logistics 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… Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603640M/2223/a6 ### Human Performance, Training and Education 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… Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603640M/2223/a3 ### Command, Control, Communications, Computers (C4) **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) simulated combat scenarios. - Experimentation of AI-enabled tactical advisors that analyze sparse data to provide small unit commanders with sound tactical recommendations in Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations (EABO) support scenarios. - Multi-modal simulation of operations in the information environment to develop realistic data for information warfare. Initiate: - Advanced development to implement propagation environment aware signature management and communication planning over land for small, forward-deployed units under the Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations (EABO) construct to include weather effects, terrain, land use/cover, and spectrum clutter. - Development of electromagnetic spectrum operation tools optimized for contested electromagnetic environments. - Marine Corps component commander technology demonstrations with strategic counter-Grey Z tools and techniques that anticipate and counter destabilizing threats. **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 multiple satellite constellations. - Initiate 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) simulated combat scenarios. - Initiate experimentation of AI-enabled tactical advisors that analyze sparse data to provide small unit commanders with sound tactical recommendations in Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations (EABO) support scenarios. - Initiate multi-modal simulation of operations in the information environment to develop realistic data for information warfare. ## 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/0603640M. ## Source & machine access - **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Navy RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0603640M project 2223 (PB PB2027). - **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0603640M")`. *HitchAI is an independent intelligence service, not affiliated with the U.S. Department of Defense. Budget figures are requests/estimates, not obligations.*