# Maneuver

**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/a7  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603640M/2223

## Summary

This activity requests $11.7M in FY2027, 10% of project 2223, up 85% 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: - Develop advanced intelligent mobility technologies for ground and amphibious platforms to improve mobility and maneuverability across littoral and inland terrain. Demonstration platforms will continue to be utilized to assess potential future capabilities. - Develop unmanned swarming ground and amphibious platforms and formations with enhanced autonomy capabilities and utilization and demonstration of advanced payloads for future operations. Conduct experimentation to understand feasibility and utility for military applications. - Development of advanced drivetrain technologies, system designs, and platforms to assess capability of future military tactical truck systems to improve fuel efficiency, extend range, reduce greenhouse gases, and provide onboard auxiliary power and energy. - Research effort to conduct a series of operational analysis and experiments to rapidly advance technologies in select focus areas related to littoral maneuver into the hands of Marines to evaluate military utility. - Integrate field testing of AI-enabled autonomy Command and Control. - Conduct research on new small unmanned aerial systems capable of maneuvering and directly supporting maneuvering ground forces.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** The increase in funding from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to increased investments in research to (1) Develop advanced intelligent mobility technologies for amphibious platforms to improve mobility and maneuverability across littoral and inland terrain, (2) integrate field testing of AI-enabled autonomy Command and Control and (3) conduct research on new small unmanned aerial systems capable of maneuvering and directly supporting maneuvering ground forces.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** - Continue development of advanced intelligent mobility technologies for ground and amphibious platforms to improve mobility and maneuverability across littoral and inland terrain. Demonstration platforms will continue to be utilized to assess potential future capabilities. - Continue to expand on efforts related to the development of unmanned swarming ground and amphibious platforms and formations with enhanced autonomy capabilities and utilization and demonstration of advanced payloads for future operations. Conduct experimentation to understand feasibility and utility for military applications. - Continue the development of advanced drivetrain technologies, system designs, and platforms to assess capability of future military tactical truck systems to improve fuel efficiency, extend range, reduce greenhouse gases, and provide onboard auxiliary power and energy. - Continue research effort to conduct a series of operational analysis and experiments to rapidly advance technologies in select focus areas related to littoral maneuver into the hands of Marines to evaluate military utility. - Continue the integration and field testing of AI-enabled autonomy Command and Control - Continue research into new small unmanned aerial systems capable of maneuvering and directly supporting maneuvering ground forces. - Complete research info a high reliability and high efficiency electronic architecture for small, expeditionary unmanned vessels to meet extended endurance goals with limited maintenance demands.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 9.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 6.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 11.7 |

> 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
- [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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