# Firepower

**R-2A activity** of project 2223 — Marine Corps ATD  
**Program element:** 0603640M — MC Advanced Technology Demo  
**Component:** U.S. Navy · **Budget Activity:** 3  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603640M/2223/a1  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603640M/2223

## Summary

This activity requests $13.6M in FY2027, 12% of project 2223, up 33% on FY2026. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2026–FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2027 planned work.** 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, area effects munitions that combine state of the art seeker and warhead technology while reducing required munition salvo sizes. Complete: - Research to support additional live fire demonstrations and updating fusing for Global Positioning System (GPS) degraded environments. - Research effort that leverages prior USN/USMC investments to develop and demonstrate development of tactical-scale hypersonic missile proving timely fires at extended ranges. Initiate: - Technology demonstration effort for a validated universal architecture that optimized optimizes the operational value of digital signal processors at the tactical edge.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** The increase in funding from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to the initiation of an effort to demonstrate and validate a universal architecture that optimized the operational value of digital signal processors at the tactical edge.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** - 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. - Continue research to support additional live fire demonstrations and updating fusing for Global Positioning System (GPS) degraded environments. - Initiate development of extended range, area effects munitions that combine state of the art seeker and warhead technology while reducing required munition salvo sizes. - Initiate effort that leverages prior USN/USMC investments to develop and demonstrate development of tactical-scale hypersonic missile proving timely fires at extended ranges.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 11.4 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 10.2 |
| FY2027 | Request | 13.6 |

> Prior, current and budget year only — an R-2A activity carries no five-year plan. It sums exactly into its project in the request year and not necessarily in any other.

## Other activities in project 2223

- [USMC Future Naval Capabilities](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603640M/2223/a5) — FY2027 31.0
- [Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR)](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603640M/2223/a4) — FY2027 16.4
- [Force Protection](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603640M/2223/a2) — FY2027 15.2
- [Maneuver](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603640M/2223/a7) — FY2027 11.7
- [Logistics](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603640M/2223/a6) — FY2027 10.3
- [Human Performance, Training and Education](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603640M/2223/a3) — FY2027 10.2
- Command, Control, Communications, Computers (C4) — FY2027 7.9

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Navy RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0603640M project 2223 (PB PB2027). Narrative is the government's own text.
- **No marks, no contractors at this grain** — congressional marks land on the program element and R-3 performers on the project.
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_activity`.

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