What project 1130 buys
The Expeditionary Loitering Munitions Portfolio consists of a family of Navy loitering munition programs (air and surface) designed to meet an urgent Geographic Combatant Command Requirement. Air and Surface Expeditionary Loitering Munitions will leverage and continue prior development efforts including an Office of Naval Research (ONR) Innovative Naval Prototype (INP). The Navy is pursuing commercial-off-the-shelf solutions with autonomous government-provided software and auxiliary systems. The systems will be expeditionary and deployable by small teams to support operations in various environments. The air system has transitioned from Low-Rate Initial Production to Full-Rate Production with the initial vendor solutions and is now expanding the industrial base for this capability by integrating government-owned technology with other vendor platform solutions. The surface system has transitioned from the ONR INP and is now in Low-Rate Initial Production. The FY 2026 budget for Expeditionary Loitering Munitions included $731,000 thousand of discretionary funding and $37,300,000 thousand of mandatory funding for a total of $38,031,000 thousand. The mandatory funds support program management and technical oversight for the air system, which included hardware and software qualification, Spiral 2 software test planning and execution, safety certification, and contract execution. This oversight will be extended to a maximum of four additional vendors to aid in the integration of Government-owned Technical Data Packages (TDPs) into their respective platforms.
- Product Development
- Test and Evaluation
- Management Services
Project 1130 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 83.7 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 60.9 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 28.4 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 20.0 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 7.7 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 7.9 |
3 accomplishments / planned programs
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. 1 of them 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 engineering change development, testing and implementation for the Spiral 1 air system program. Continue the vendor-based expansion effort by completing design phase and producing prototypes air systems. Complete air system Spiral 2 software fielding.
Read the FY2027 plan →FY2027 planned work Conduct air system vendor-based expansion prototype design and conduct flight and environmental testing. Complete air system Spiral 2 software development testing and safety certification for fielding.
FY2026 to FY2027 change Increase in FY 2027 is due to the initiation of flight and environmental testing for the vendor-based expansion effort for the air system program.
FY2026 plans — current year The FY 2026 request for (PROJ: 1130) Expeditionary Loitering Munitions Capability Development with $731 thousands of discretionary and $37,300 thousands of mandatory (reconciliation) for a total of $38,031 thousand. Further information for this reconciliation request is provided in the Reconciliation Exhibit.
FY2027 planned work Provide air system program management and technical oversight for hardware and software qualification efforts, Spiral 2 software fielding, and contract execution. Provide air system program management and technical oversight for up to 4 additional vendors to integrate Government-owned TDPs into their platforms, manufacture prototype systems, and conduct initial design verification testing of these systems.
FY2026 to FY2027 change Increase in FY 2027 is due to management required to support accelerating vendor-based expansion efforts for the air system program.
FY2026 plans — current year Provide air system program management and technical oversight for hardware and software qualification efforts, Spiral 2 software test planning and execution, safety certification, and contract execution. The FY 2026 request for (PROJ: 1130) Expeditionary Loitering Munitions Capability Development with $731 thousands of discretionary and $37,300 thousands of mandatory (reconciliation) for a total of $38,031 thousand. Further information for this reconciliation request is provided in the Reconciliation Exhibit.
Named performers on project 1130
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.