What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 2223 of PE 0603640M. This is the budget justification's own description of work that has not happened yet — the one thing no other level of the budget carries.
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 factor that upon transition will enable the USMC to conduct Expeditionary Advanced Basing Operations (EABO) while being capable of defeating small unmanned autonomous system (sUAS) swarms and other unmanned systems in littoral regions. - Develop, integrate and field test systems for the precision neutralization of threat explosive hazards, mines, and kill chain components with lethal or non-lethal force from standoff distances to enable in-stride littoral movement and maneuver, designated ground corridors, at forward aviation points, littoral transition points, and in designated areas of interest. - Efforts that will rapidly assess and report the condition of expeditionary sites using the same or similar sensors suites used in the detection of explosive hazards. The efforts will also include development of a common messaging protocol to a control center for assessment sites for both explosive and other related damage. - Advanced technology development in support of expeditionary undersea warfare missions, to include investigation and applied analysis of prototype sensing command and control systems, distributed effects, and shore to sea systems integration. - Integration of enabling components and software onto ultra-long endurance unmanned autonomous systems (UAS) in order to demonstrate persistent surveillance over highly dispersed operational regions. - Research to integrate provided tactical laser and beam director into a tactical vehicle for military utility experiments. Complete: - Prototyping and demonstration of a compact and affordable interceptor, with integrated warhead and seeker package for kinetic force protection, both afloat and ashore. Initiate: - Research to develop a medically informed prototype effort to enhance Marine warfighter protection against emerging threats. - Advanced development to build a prototype nonlinear transmission line high power directed energy system operational assessment.
The decrease of funding from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to the completion of an effort to demonstrate a compact and affordable interceptor, with integrated warhead and seeker package for kinetic force protection, both afloat and ashore.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
- Continue efforts looking at counters to autonomy and sensors/perception. - Continue advanced research that integrates and demonstrates sensors and systems to enable autonomous, multi-domain amphibious operations in mined and obstacle environments. - Continue research effort to provide a solid-state High-Power Microwave prototype in a form factor that upon transition will enable the USMC to conduct Expeditionary Advanced Basing Operations (EABO) while being capable of defeating small unmanned autonomous system (sUAS) swarms and other unmanned systems in littoral regions. - Continue research to develop, integrate and field test systems for the precision neutralization of threat explosive hazards, mines, and kill chain components with lethal or non-lethal force from standoff distances to enable in-stride littoral movement and maneuver, designated ground corridors, at forward aviation points, littoral transition points, and in designated areas of interest. - Continue efforts that will rapidly assess and report the condition of expeditionary sites using the same or similar sensors suites used in the detection of explosive hazards. The efforts will also include development of a common messaging protocol to a control center for assessment sites for both explosive and other related damage. - Continue advanced technology development in support of expeditionary undersea warfare missions, to include investigation and applied analysis of prototype sensing command and control systems, distributed effects, and shore to sea systems integration. - Continue design and prototyping for compact and light weight launcher technologies in support of kinetic force protection, both afloat and ashore. - Continue integration of enabling components and software onto ultra-long endurance unmanned autonomous systems (UAS) in order to demonstrate persistent surveillance over highly dispersed operational regions. - Complete research development of compact rapid analysis and sensing systems to assess expeditionary operational site by detecting battle damage, surface and sub-surface explosive hazards detection and classification. - Initiate research to integrate provided tactical laser and beam director into a tactical vehicle for military utility experiments.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 11.4 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 15.4 |
| FY2027 | Request | 15.2 |
This activity is 13% of project 2223's FY2027 request and 5.3% of PE 0603640M's. In the request year the activities under a project sum to it exactly; in the current year they under-cover it in about 9% of cases, so an activity's delta can legitimately exceed its parent's and the two must not be compared row to row.
8 activities in project 2223
Every R-2A line of this project, largest FY2027 request first. Linked where the activity has enough of its own narrative to carry a page; the rest are shown in full on the project page.