What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 2297 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.
Technical Support: - Continue to provide a full range of overarching, lab-wide, engineering, analytical, technical, management, and business services; directly related to live-force experimentation. Focus areas include liaison with Fleet counterparts to identify operational shortfalls and requirements that need to be fulfilled by technology solutions and provide recommendations on technology integration and operational requirements at all levels of security. - Continue security protocol functions. - Continue information systems support. - Initiate efforts to better generate, manage, and leverage information and knowledge to improve internal messaging, external engagement with the Fleet, and support Force Design 2030 initiatives. Collaboration: - Continue to provide a laboratory facility to co-locate experimentation designers/implementers with project teams and technologists to enhance effectiveness of experimentation design, development, implementation, reporting, prototyping, and outreach of results. - Continue to provide a co-located laboratory facility to integrate operational projects and functions in direct support of experimentation goals.
There is no significant change between overall FY 2026 and FY 2027 funding levels.
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.
Technical Support: - Continue to provide a full range of overarching, lab-wide, engineering, analytical, technical, management, and business services; directly related to live-force experimentation. Tasks include Portfolio Analytics; a continued exploration of AI capabilities to streamline data collection and program presentation, facilitating informed rapid decision-making and strategic planning. - Initiate efforts to increase security protocols as a direct result of increased program classifications. Efforts include the latest technologies, methodologies, recommended policies, procedures, and practices for MCWL to utilize in support of Force Design 2030. - Initiate efforts to broaden information systems support within cyber and general service areas to computer systems required to plan, execute, and evaluate experimentation programs. Efforts ensure compliance with Department of War (DoW), Secretary of the Navy (SecNav), and Marine Corps Order (MCO) regulations regarding the maintenance and upkeep of computer systems housing classified information. Collaboration: - Continue to provide a laboratory facility to co-locate experimentation designers/implementers with project teams and technologists to enhance effectiveness of experimentation design, development, implementation, reporting, prototyping, and outreach of results. Effort seeks to facilitate communication, problem solving, risk mitigation, and status reporting in the execution of MCWL's science and technology (S&T) projects at all classification levels. - Establish a co-located laboratory facility to integrate operational projects in direct support of experimentation goals. Strategies include modeling and simulation; analysis and advisory services; concepts and plans activities; and experimentation development, execution, and analysis efforts. Efforts seek to facilitate enhanced inter-MCWL communications, problem solving, risk mitigation, and status reporting at all classification levels.
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 | 22.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 24.2 |
| FY2027 | Request | 23.9 |
This activity is 14% of project 2297's FY2027 request and 8.3% 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.
6 activities in project 2297
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.