# Naval Warfare Experimentation

**R-2A activity** of project 2950 — Experiments and Demonstration Transition  
**Program element:** 0603758N — Navy Warfighting Exp & Demo  
**Component:** U.S. Navy · **Budget Activity:** 3  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603758N/2950/a0  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603758N/2950

> **NEW START.** $22.5M requested in FY2027 with no prior-year and no current-year funding.

## Summary

This activity requests $22.5M in FY2027, 58% of project 2950 — a new start with no prior-year and no current-year money. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2027 planned work.** Initiate: - ONR experimentation plan in alignment with the 30 Year S&T Strategy to guide multiyear S&T investment in response to emerging concepts and doctrine. - Operational experimentation to determine best of breed technologies from industry and government labs and document results to inform early S&T product development, ensure operational relevancy and fit, accelerate technology maturation, and address additional warfighter needs while working to mitigate capability delivery risk. - Technology operational experimentation events (TOEE) that will address operational problems identified by Fleet/Force inputs. - Execute three TOEEs aligned to stakeholder needs across the requirements, science and technology, and operational communities. These investments consist of focused experiments such as limited technology assessments, limited objective experiments, and advanced capability experiments to provide objective quality evidence and actionable insights to catalyze capability development and inform future S&T investment, divestment, or transition. - Participate in large scale service-level experimentation and international experimentation to assess early Technology Readiness Level concept investigations with Fleet/Force input. The outcomes will inform NRE, and where applicable Allies and International Partner, investment decisions as well as enabling the accelerated transition of S&T to the Fleet/Force.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Funding increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to funding realignment from Proj 2918 to Proj 2950 within the same Program Element.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 22.5 |

> 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 2950

- [TechSolutions](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603758N/2950/a2) — FY2027 11.1
- Operations Analysis — FY2027 4.1
- Technology Bridges — FY2027 1.0

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Navy RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0603758N project 2950 (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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