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 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 technologies that integrate with future fires and kill-web systems to provide realistic synthetic enemies and effects and greatly enhance Marine Corps training effectiveness. - Develop and experiment with Augmented Reality (AR) technologies to improve target identification, classification, and situational awareness for ground force / infantry fires applications. - Research development and experimentation with technologies and methodologies to improve small unit decision-making training and operational capabilities through the use of human-machine teaming, multi-modal interactions, and after-action review and trend analysis. - Development on prototype and experimentation with portable Live, Virtual, and Constructive (LVC) kits that enable standalone, integrated training within a contested littoral or maritime operating environment for forward deployed units.
The increase in funding from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to increased investments in research to (1) develop and experiment with Augmented Reality (AR) technologies to improve target identification, classification, and situational awareness for ground force / infantry fires applications and (2) extended reality, synthetic agent(s), and training feedback technologies that integrate with future fires and kill-web systems to provide realistic synthetic enemies and effects and greatly enhance Marine Corps training effectiveness.
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 research developing and delivering scalable software applications and plug-and-play hardware components that enable customizable human performance collection, assessment, monitoring, and management. - Continue research and development in extended reality, synthetic agent(s), and training feedback technologies that integrate with future fires and kill-web systems to provide realistic synthetic enemies and greatly enhance Marine Corps training effectiveness. - Continue to develop and test mixed reality technologies that will improve target identification, classification, and situational awareness for fires applications. - Continue research and development of methodologies to improve small unit decision-making training and operational capabilities through the use of human-machine teaming, multi-modal interactions, and after-action review and trend analysis. - Complete development and assessment of new marksmanship training approaches, analysis, and visualizations to improve marksmanship and extend the lethality measurement approach to low-visibility operations, indirect fires lethality assessments, and other complex scenarios. - Complete development of infrastructure to incorporate wearable physiological monitoring devices, predictive algorithms, health tracking capability, and related technologies that can be operated by Marine Corps organizations and end users that will increase physical readiness and reduce potential injuries. - Complete development of adaptive and experiential training applications and assessments to address requirements stated in Training and Education 2030. - Complete development of marksmanship data collection tools that provides analysis and actionable feedback based on Marine Corps established parameters and doctrine. - Initiate effort to develop portable Live, Virtual, and Constructive (LVC) kits that enable standalone, integrated training within a contested littoral or maritime operating environment for forward deployed units.
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 | 7.8 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 7.1 |
| FY2027 | Request | 10.2 |
This activity is 8.8% of project 2223's FY2027 request and 3.5% 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.