# Logistics

**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/a6  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603640M/2223

## Summary

This activity requests $10.3M in FY2027, 8.9% of project 2223, up 5050% 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: - 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 utility of enhancing combat capability by increasing energy production, storage, distribution, and curbing energy consumption of the individual Marine and other tactical assets with a particular emphasis on supporting distributed operations. Initiate: - Advanced research development for distributes acoustic sensing efforts tailored to unique expeditionary threat detection applications. - Next-generation fuel cell technology to enable record unmanned aerial system flight persistence and increased payload capacity.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** The increase in funding from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to the initiation of (1) advanced research development to distribute acoustic sensing efforts tailored to expeditionary threats and (2) next-generation fuel cell technology to enable record unmanned aerial system flight persistence and payload capacity.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** - Continue to advance the broad range of technologies to demonstrate the military utility of enhancing combat capability by increasing energy production, storage, distribution, and curbing energy consumption of the individual Marine and other tactical assets with a particular emphasis on supporting distributed operations. - Continue development of adaptive morphing materials that allow for tire overall stiffness control in less than three minutes. - Complete a research effort to research and develop solutions for safe and effective integration of Lithium-ion 6T batteries into soon-to-field energy storage platforms. - Complete to design and deliver a full-scale autonomy-ready system consisting of an Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV) capable of towing logistics. The effort will also demonstrate integrated system at-sea in required sea-state conditions. - Complete Navy and US Marine Corps development of class of supply III (fuel) and V (munitions) dynamic calculators into a common data framework. - Initiate testing and demonstration of mission planning tactical logistics predictive and analytic tools at fleet exercises.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 10.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.2 |
| FY2027 | Request | 10.3 |

> 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
- [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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