What project 0996 buys
Naval aviation must operate independently worldwide often with limited logistics support. Additionally, legacy and emerging aircraft continually add capabilities to enhance their lethality and survivability. Improving an aircraft's utilization and management of energy has a direct relationship to enhanced combat capability to meet the challenges of emerging threats. This program engages technical experts from across Naval aviation, industry, and academia to identify best practices and technologies for development, testing and validation to determine technical viability and assess benefit to mission capability.
- Product Development
- Test and Evaluation
- Management Services
Project 0996 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 21.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 16.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 19.0 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 30.7 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 29.0 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 23.6 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 20.4 |
1 accomplishment / planned program
The R-2A exhibit — the only level of the budget that describes work that has not happened yet. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only, no five-year plan. Each describes FY2027 work in enough detail to have its own page; the rest are shown here in full. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
Continue identification, testing and assessment of Aircraft Energy Technologies to enhance Naval Aviation operational capability. Implement VR and AI technologies to optimize pilot training and scheduling. Mature and demonstrate more efficient flight planning technologies. Assess and mature air vehicle efficiency technologies. Assess and…
Read the FY2027 plan →Named performers on project 0996
Performers named in the R-3 exhibit under this project. Share is of the project's whole FY2027 R-3 total — the same denominator the program-element split uses, so the two read on one scale and will not sum to 100% when unnamed or government work is in the mix. Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations.