What project 9999 buys
Wing-in-Ground-effect (WIG) platforms are an emerging alternative maritime transportation capability that will disrupt the adversaries kill chain and result in a cost imposition on enemy targeting. WIG platforms have potential to fill capability gaps in the Marine Corps' family of Littoral-Maritime Transportation & Mobility Systems. WIGs are water borne, inexpensive, maneuverable, platforms offering an alternative mode of high-speed surface transportation in a contested maritime, anti-access/area denial (A2AD) environment. Operating in ground effect provides maximum operational efficiency and allows the vessels to be certified as a maritime platform vice an aircraft, reducing certification and training requirements.
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Project 9999 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 | 9.7 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 72.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 0.0 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 0.0 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 0.0 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 0.0 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 0.0 |