# Project 0996 — Aircraft Energy Technology

**Program element:** 0603724N — Navy Energy Program  
**Project:** 0996  
**Component:** U.S. Navy  
**Appropriation:** 1319 — RDT&E, Navy  
**Budget Activity:** 4 — Advanced Component Development & Prototypes  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603724N/0996  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603724N

## Summary

Project 0996 — Aircraft Energy Technology requests $19.0M in FY2027, 32% of the $59.6M requested for program element 0603724N, up 12% on FY2026. 1 R-2A activity decomposes the request. NAWCAD is the largest named R-3 performer at $5.7M, 30% of the project's FY2027 R-3 total.

## Funding profile

| 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 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0603724N; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## 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.

**R-3 lines of work:** Product Development; Test and Evaluation; Management Services.

## Named R-3 performers

| Performer | $M | Share of this project's FY2027 R-3 total |
|---|---|---|
| NAWCAD | 5.7 | 30% |
| American Systems | 2.9 | 15% |

> Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations. Shares need not reach 100% — unnamed and government work is in the denominator.

## Activities (R-2A) — 1

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aircraft Operational Energy | 21.0 | 16.9 | 19.0 | +12% | [a0](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603724N/0996/a0) |

> Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan. In the request year they partition this project exactly; in earlier years they can under-cover it.

### Aircraft Operational Energy

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…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603724N/0996/a0

## What is NOT on this page

Congressional marks, the R-2 mission description and acquisition strategy, the industry vs government split of the whole request, and related program elements are recorded at **program-element** grain — an NDAA mark lands on a PE, never on a project. They are at https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603724N.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Navy RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0603724N project 0996 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0603724N")`.

*HitchAI is an independent intelligence service, not affiliated with the U.S. Department of Defense. Budget figures are requests/estimates, not obligations.*