# Fleet Experimentation (FLEX)

**R-2A activity** of project 3319 — Fleet Experimentation  
**Program element:** 0606355N — Warfare Innovation Management  
**Component:** U.S. Navy · **Budget Activity:** 6  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0606355N/3319/a0  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0606355N/3319

## Summary

This activity requests $13.1M in FY2027, 100% of project 3319, up 4.2% on FY2026. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2026–FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2027 planned work.** 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.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** OPNAV N94's planned increase ($528K) of the FLEX budget to $13.1M in FY27 will enable NWDC to examine 2-3 additional FLEX initiatives and improve the quality of FLEX products, particularly data analytics and visualization. This increase will expand FLEX's ROI to the fleet by enhancing outcomes across maritime capability development, investment, and delivery.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** The FY26 iteration ($12.6M) of the FLEX Campaign includes 16 initiatives (initiative details are classified). Topics include unmanned systems, artificial intelligence, resilient communications, long-range fires, C-C5ISRT, contested logistics, and maritime homeland defense. Based on discussions with OPNAV N94, FLEX will emphasize examination and development of warfare center technologies, thus enabling continued refinement via the USFF Fleet Battle Problem series and the PACFLT Integrated Battle Problem series. Descriptions of FY26 FLEX initiatives are readily available at higher classification. In FY26 to date, NWDC has provided 7 FLEX Campaign Highlights to the Fleet Commanders and 1 quarterly highlight summary to the Navy experimentation community, with more expected as the year progresses. Details are readily available at higher classifications.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 11.9 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 12.6 |
| FY2027 | Request | 13.1 |

> Prior, current and budget year only — an R-2A activity carries no five-year plan. It sums exactly into its project in the request year and not necessarily in any other.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Navy RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0606355N project 3319 (PB PB2027). Narrative is the government's own text.
- **No marks, no contractors at this grain** — congressional marks land on the program element and R-3 performers on the project.
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_activity`.

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