# Marine Corps IT Dev/Mod — Program Element 0605013M

**Program element:** 0605013M  
**Component:** U.S. Navy  
**Appropriation:** 1319 — RDT&E, Navy  
**Budget Activity:** 5 — System Development & Demonstration  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605013M

## Summary

U.S. Navy requests $14.4M in FY2027 (down from a FY2026 peak). In the FY2027 defense authorization, the House funded it in full; the Senate funded it in full; House appropriators funded it in full. NIWC Lant leads the industry work.

## Funding profile

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 14.6 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 16.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 14.4 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 11.6 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 11.9 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 11.8 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 12.1 |

> Estimate types are not summed — the profile mixes actuals, enacted law, the request, and outyear projections.

## Congressional marks (FY2027)

| Stage | Marked ($M) | Change ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| Request | 14.4 | — |
| House NDAA (HASC) | 14.4 | +0.0 |
| Senate NDAA (SASC) | 14.4 | +0.0 |
| House Approps (HAC-D) | 14.4 | +0.0 |

> FY2027 NDAA authorization marks, as of 2026-07-27. Not appropriations or final law.

## Projects (1)

| Project | Title | FY2025 actual | FY2026 enacted | FY2027 request | Move |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2906 | Marine Corps IT | 14.6 | 16.0 | 14.4 | −10% |

> Projects are the summable leaves: the program element total is their sum, never added to it.

### Project 2906 — Marine Corps IT

Marine Corps Recruiting Information Support System (MCRISS) is an enterprise level system to automate administrative procedures for the recruiting station operations. This customized automated System, centered on procedures in the Guidebook for Recruiters, Volume I, dramatically improves efficiency and effectiveness in Marine Corps recruiting. Furthermore, Military Entrance Processing Command requires Marine Corps recruiting to provide information in electronic format only. MCRISS is the Marine Corps Recruiting Command's program to manage applicant processing from commitment to accession/commission into the Marine Corps and Marine Corps Reserve. This enterprise approach allows for efficient sharing of information about potential recruits and recruiter screening efforts, yielding a more cost-effective process. The current system requires modernization of the systematic recruiting components to provide efficiency for the Recruiting force from the Headquarters element down to the Recruiter and requires numerous updates in order to become fully compliant with Cyber Security and Center for Naval Analysis (CNA) policies and mandates to protect PII/PHI data captured and stored in the system. The Modernization effort will involve a competitive evaluation of several prototype systems, leading to a selection of a viable platform and the complete replacement of the current MCRISS system with modern and secure technology. Strategic Management Decision Support (SMDS): The SMDS program will provide a set of materiel and non-materiel solutions to facilitate data-driven and analytically sound decision support for Marine Corps strategic-level business processes, in order to optimize force development outcomes and improve institutional readiness. Supported business processes include global force management, readiness assessment, war gaming, planning, programming, budgeting, and capability solution development. SMDS will provide Marine Corps senior leaders, across all functional areas, adequate tools and data to make force development and readiness decisions with sufficient responsiveness to meet force management and planning, programming, budgeting, and execution (PPBE) process timelines. SMDS will enable Marine Corps data to be readily available, visible, accessible, and integrate multiple classification domains through a DISA Cross Domain Enterprise Solution.

**Named R-3 performers** (share of this project's FY2027 R-3 total, so they need not reach 100%)**:** NIWC Lant (11.5, 80%), NIWC LANT (1.6, 11%), CACI (1.3, 9.1%).

| Activity (R-2A) | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT DECISION SUPPORT (SMDS) | 2.6 | 2.4 | 1.6 |
| MANPOWER OPERATIONS SYSTEMS (MOS) | 9.0 | 11.2 | 11.5 |
| COMMAND INDIVIDUAL RISK AND RESILIENCY ASSESSMENT SYSTEM (CIRRAS) | 3.1 | 1.4 | 0.6 |
| TOTAL FORCE STRUCTURE MANGEMENT SYSTEM (TFSMS) | 0.0 | 1.1 | 0.7 |

> R-2A activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan. Coverage is partial, so count them, never total them.

## Where the FY2027 request goes

| Category | Share | $M |
|---|---|---|
| Industry primes | 100% | 14.4 |

**Top named industry performers:** NIWC Lant ($11.5M, 80%), NIWC LANT ($1.6M, 11%), CACI ($1.3M, 9.1%).

> R-3 exhibit contract funding, not USAspending obligations.

## Mission & acquisition strategy

Marine Corps Recruiting Information Support System (MCRISS) is an enterprise level system to automate administrative procedures for the recruiting station operations. This customized automated System, centered on procedures in the Guidebook for Recruiters, Volume I, dramatically improves efficiency and effectiveness in Marine Corps recruiting. Furthermore, Military Entrance Processing Command requires Marine Corps recruiting to provide information in electronic format only. MCRISS is the Marine Corps Recruiting Command's program to manage applicant processing from commitment to accession/commission into the Marine Corps and Marine Corps Reserve.

Manpower Operations Systems (MOS) will utilize the modernization of the HRDP defense business systems to follow a Functional Area Manager (FAM)-prioritized, iterative approach that leverages modern technology (i.e., commercial cloud service tiers; Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning; automation; data analytics and visualization, etc.) and IT service delivery methodologies. The Marine Corps will operate a multi-cloud, hybrid environment structured to expose and democratize data in order to capitalize on data analytics to optimize outcomes in accession and recruitment, talent and career management, assignments and retention, training, integrated pay and personnel systems.

## Related program elements

- [0605233A — Accessions Information Environment (AIE)](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605233A) (Army)
- [0607210D8Z — Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment Support](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0607210D8Z) (Defense-Wide)
- [0207448F — E-7](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0207448F) (Air Force)
- [0601103A — University Research Initiatives](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601103A) (Army)

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Navy RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-3, PE 0605013M (PB PB2027); FY2027 NDAA committee marks (as of 2026-07-27).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0605013M")`.

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