# Project 9999 — Congressional Adds

**Program element:** 0603925N — Directed Energy and Electric Weapon System  
**Project:** 9999  
**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/0603925N/9999  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603925N

## Summary

Project 9999 — Congressional Adds requests $0.0M in FY2027, 0.0% of the $94.8M requested for program element 0603925N, down 100% on FY2026.

## Funding profile

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 9.7 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 14.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 0.0 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 0.0 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 0.0 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 0.0 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 0.0 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0603925N; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## What project 9999 buys

Project 9999 (PU C357) - Congressional Add - 100kW Directed Energy Production is a Congressionally directed effort to advance the manufacturing readiness of 'weapon grade' subsystems for 100kW class High Energy Lasers (HELs) including the Main Optical Bench (MOB) for beam combining and beam control. Additionally, these funds will support Navy plans to develop and refine weapon integration processes and system performance qualification and evaluation. In order to expand mass production of weapon grade Laser Fiber Amplifiers (LFAs), manufacturing processes currently utilized need refinement and improvement. This will result in higher production capabilities at a reduced cost per LFA for the United States (US) Government. Project 9999 (PU CA34) - Congressional Add - Enduring-High Energy Laser (E-HEL) supports development, integration and marinization of the E-HEL capability into multi-service Air and Missile Defense networks to demonstrate a capability to defeat Group 1-3 Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs). Project 9999 (PU CA35) - Congressional Add - Directed Energy Production is a Congressionally directed effort to advance the manufacturing readiness of 'weapon grade' subsystems for 100kW class High Energy Lasers (HELs) including the Main Optical Bench (MOB) for beam combining and beam control. Additionally, these funds will support Navy plans to develop and refine weapon integration processes and system performance qualification and evaluation. In order to expand mass production of weapon grade Laser Fiber Amplifiers (LFAs), manufacturing processes currently utilized need refinement and improvement. This will result in higher production capabilities at a reduced cost per LFA for the United States (US) Government.

**R-3 lines of work:** Product Development; Support; Management Services.

## 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/0603925N.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Navy RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0603925N project 9999 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0603925N")`.

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