# Human Performance, Training and Education

**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/a3  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603640M/2223

## Summary

This activity requests $10.2M in FY2027, 8.8% of project 2223, up 44% 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: - 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.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** 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.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** - 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.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 7.8 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 7.1 |
| FY2027 | Request | 10.2 |

> 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
- [Firepower](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603640M/2223/a1) — FY2027 13.6
- [Maneuver](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603640M/2223/a7) — FY2027 11.7
- [Logistics](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603640M/2223/a6) — FY2027 10.3
- 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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