What project 3319 buys
The Fleet Experimentation (FLEX) program examines materiel and non-materiel initiatives in development to address the fleet's most critical warfighting priorities and gaps. Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe/Africa, Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet, and Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command (CUSFFC) are the FLEX Program Owners. Per the current FLEX Instruction (3900.1E), they provide program oversight, Commanders' FLEX guidance with experimentation priorities, funding oversight, and advocacy for the most viable recommended solutions to fleet priority capability gaps. CUSFFC manages FLEX program funding. Director, Navy Warfare Development Center (NWDC) serves as the Executive Agent (EA) and is responsible for FLEX campaign design and management, experiment planning and execution, analysis, final reporting, and post-experiment actions. FLEX results drive action across three structured return on investment (ROI) categories: capability development, investment, and delivery.
Project 3319 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 | 11.9 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 12.6 |
| FY2027 | Request | 13.1 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 15.7 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 19.8 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 19.8 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 20.1 |
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.
The FY27 iteration ($13.1M) of the FLEX Campaign is in development. Topics will include unmanned systems, artificial intelligence, resilient communications, long range fires, counterintelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, contested logistics, and maritime homeland defense.
Read the FY2027 plan →