What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 3783 of PE 0605873M. This is the budget justification's own description of work that has not happened yet — the one thing no other level of the budget carries.
Information War Room (IWR) Division - Initiate development and integration of software and hardware prototypes to fuse Information Operations (IO), Electronic Warfare (EW), Command and Control (C2), and Cyber capabilities into a unified warfighter-focused toolset. -Conduct technical feasibility studies and systems engineering efforts to define the architecture for a converged information warfare system. - Procure and deliver Project DYNAMIS Mission Command Package (MCP) kits to Marine Corps Tactical Systems Support Activity (MCTSSA) and designated operational units for technical assessment and Field User Evaluations (FUEs). -Analyze FUE results to inform design modifications and finalize the technical data package for follow-on development. - Complete the final development and integration of the Maven Smart System (MSS) AI/ML capability for deployment to operational test units. - Conduct developmental testing on the MSS to validate performance against technical specifications. - Deliver MSS prototypes to designated operational units for FUEs to assess military utility in processing intelligence data and identifying threats. - Develop and integrate a prototype Joint Fires Network (JFN) Tactical Edge Node designed for employment by distributed stand-in forces. - Conduct rigorous FUEs in a simulated INDOPACOM environment to validate the prototype's ability to connect to the joint fires network and pass targeting data. - Evaluate the technical performance and suitability of the prototype to support long-range precision fires and kill chain closure. Service Data Office (SDO) - Develop simulated data environments to support the test and evaluation of emerging data management and Artificial Intelligence concepts and solutions -Test data architectures, serverless infrastructure, and infrastructure-as-code. - Assess agentic Ais potential for automating data-centric workflows and business processes. - Develop and evaluate serverless infrastructure and "infrastructure as code" capabilities for agile and scalable data environments.
Increase reflects the acceleration of the Marine Corps' contribution to CJADC2, in partnership with the Navy's Project Overmatch. This increase will enable the identification and integration of advanced commercial technologies and AI/ML capabilities to address critical warfighting gaps in assured C2 and battlespace awareness, as well as enhance data management technologies, develop serverless cloud infrastructure, and apply AI to automate critical workflows.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
Information War Room (IWR) Division - Continued to conduct innovation activities across the information domain to develop user centered capabilities for the future operating environment. - Continued to focus on the Information Warfare capabilities within the Deputy Commandant for Information portfolio. This includes Information Operations, Electronic Warfare, Tactical Command and Control, and Cyber Operations. - Continued rapid development of capabilities to address problems supporting Information Operations. The Marine Corps Information Environment Enterprise (MCIEE) Information Modernization team will develop and transition software and hardware solutions to Programs of Record. - This funding also supports MCIEE efforts that align to Joint priorities for the Marine Corps, and the CMC's Force Design 2030. - Trained and conducted Field User Evaluation (FUEs) for the MAGTF C2 Prototype (MCP) capability kits for Project DYNAMIS, the USMC contribution to Navy Overmatch and Combined Joint All Domain Command and Control (CJADC2)
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 4.2 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 4.4 |
| FY2027 | Request | 48.5 |
This activity is 100% of project 3783's FY2027 request and 69% of PE 0605873M's. In the request year the activities under a project sum to it exactly; in the current year they under-cover it in about 9% of cases, so an activity's delta can legitimately exceed its parent's and the two must not be compared row to row.
1 activity in project 3783
Every R-2A line of this project, largest FY2027 request first. Linked where the activity has enough of its own narrative to carry a page; the rest are shown in full on the project page.