What project 1850 buys
This is a FY2027 new start. Coalition Heterogenous Affordable Offensive Strike (CHAOS) will introduce a new modular, affordable weapon system to fulfill U.S. Security Objectives in the 2025 US Interim National Defense Strategy. The CHAOS mission expands industry participation, increases vendor options, and addresses global demand. The Navy program will leverage from the initial CHAOS ground launch development completed by other Foreign Military Sales partners to rapidly develop an air launched weapon system with the flexibility to pivot to surface and air-launched variants, fostering innovation and transitioning to the next generation of weapons. CHAOS will provide an alternative munition from industry that will allow for new vendors to enter into the market space. With today's industrial capacity investments into the same existing weapons, CHAOS would grow the list of potential options. CHAOS is intended to bring the mass into the "Affordable for the Masses" arena via a worldwide need for a 500-lb class warhead weapon system with future growth options.
- Product Development
- Support
- Test and Evaluation
- Management Services
Project 1850 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 | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 63.0 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 188.9 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 0.0 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 0.0 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 0.0 |
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. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
FY2027 planned work The Navy will initiate the development of CHAOS for air launched capability. The program will start Air Worthiness, Aircraft Integration, Carrier Qualifications Suitability and weapon qualification activities.
FY2026 to FY2027 change Increase in FY 2027 by $63.010M to support Air Launch development activities and Test & Evaluation efforts planned for FY 2027.
Named performers on project 1850
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.