What project 2576 buys
USMC Unique efforts include USMC Operational Testing and government engineering support, as well USMC systems engineering efforts and other emerging USMC requirements to include Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning (AI/ML) supply chain optimization. Continuing efforts include: Non-recurring engineering and procurement of a test article to evaluate service life of F-35B STOVL Aircraft; USMC F-35 Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) integration, F-35 AI/ML informed maintenance and supply tools, M-31 mobile arresting gear testing, Narrow Runway risk reduction efforts, USMC F-35 contested logistics environment solutions, Lab Based Security Assessment (LBSA) testing for Interim Full Motion Video (iFMV) Cross Domain Solution (CDS) improvements introduced to fulfill NSA requirements for cybersecurity.
- Product Development
- Test and Evaluation
Project 2576 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 | 17.2 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 29.1 |
| FY2027 | Request | 22.7 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 25.5 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 25.3 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 24.0 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 24.5 |
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.
FY2027 plans include capability development in collaborative combat aircraft (CCA) paired with F-35. This is critical for the integration and control architecture, which will allow for the procurement of CCA systems to achieve operational capability. The program will continue test planning and F-35B STOVL durability test article build to…
Read the FY2027 plan →Named performers on project 2576
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.