What project 3751 buys
USMC VTOL Development portfolio addresses vertical lift capability requirements that are feasible and affordable. This element supports Marine Corps Force Design and Marine Corps Aviation's Project Eagle initiative. This portfolio facilitates developmental and operational prototyping and demonstration of capabilities supporting Logistics/Aviation Sustainment, Future Attack/Strike (FASt), Assault Support, and Autonomy. Project activities are closely aligned with the OSW-sponsored vertical lift initiatives and will look to leverage any aspects of Joint Service programs (e.g., Future Long Range Assault Aircraft, unmanned, air launched effects) that may benefit the Marine Corps through accelerated development and/or reduced life cycle costs. The VTOL Development portfolio serves as a force multiplier, supporting development, maturation, experimentation and evaluation of enhanced performance qualities (e.g., agility, endurance, reliability, lift capacity, survivability), technically relevant modular kinetic/non-kinetic payloads, and superior warfighter-machine interface (e.g., autonomy), enhancing warfighter lethality. This project increases the MAGTF's lethality through its long-range fires, Logistics/Aviation Sustainment, FASt, and Assault Support efforts. Specific projects include the Contested Logistics focused Aerial Logistics Connector (ALC). Project activities directly support Force Design and Project Eagle, enable the Stand-in Force (SiF), and facilitate Expeditionary Advanced Basing Operations (EABO), and Littoral Operations in a Contested Environment (LOCE) through the development of manned and unmanned capabilities that enhance warfighter survivability and lethality.
- Product Development
- Support
- Test and Evaluation
- Management Services
Project 3751 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 | 49.2 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 33.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 42.2 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 47.1 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 56.9 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 57.5 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 58.5 |
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.
Continued vendor Mission Systems Integration and development of identified software/hardware autonomy solutions into demonstration aircraft. Air Test and Evaluation Squadron Two Four (UX-24) will continue to conduct prototype evaluations of vendor autonomy suites while MAWTS-1 and Marine Operational Test and Evaluation Squadron One…
Read the FY2027 plan →Named performers on project 3751
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.