# Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory / Futures Directorate (MCWL/FD) Technical, Engineering, and Management Support

**R-2A activity** of project 2297 — Futures Directorate  
**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/2297/a4  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603640M/2297

## Summary

This activity requests $23.9M in FY2027, 14% of project 2297, down 1.2% 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.** 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.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** There is no significant change between overall FY 2026 and FY 2027 funding levels.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** 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.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 22.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 24.2 |
| FY2027 | Request | 23.9 |

> 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 2297

- [Warfighting Excellence](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603640M/2297/a5) — FY2027 57.8
- [Combat Service Support (CSS) and Force Protection](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603640M/2297/a0) — FY2027 43.9
- [Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF) Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR)](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603640M/2297/a3) — FY2027 28.8
- Fires, Targeting, and Maneuver — FY2027 6.4
- Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF) Command, Control, Communications, and Computers (C4) — FY2027 5.4

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Navy RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0603640M project 2297 (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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