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Practice Bombs
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Budget figures
FY2026 award data is a partial year — USAspending reports awards on a rolling basis, and this corpus runs through 2026-09-04. why partial FY2026 data? →
Budget trajectory
| Fiscal year | Amount |
|---|---|
| FY24 | $44.5M |
| FY25 | $34.0M |
| FY26 | $45.0M |
All series figures: P-1 TOA · PB2026
Decade view
P-1/R-1 workbook TOA basis, shown compact in $B/$M (the workbook records USD thousands); each figure cites its own President's Budget edition
The vertical scale does not start at zero: the baseline sits just below this program’s smallest year, so a low point on this line is not a small amount. Read the shape for direction and the grid below for the figures.
● actuals (line) · ○ enacted · ◇ request — gaps are editions the program is absent from, never interpolated.
| Series | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actuals | $47.8M | $44.5M | $44.5M | ||
| Enacted | – | $44.5M | $52.5M | $34.0M | |
| Request | – | – | $52.5M | $56.7M | $45.0M |
blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.
Asked vs spent: the PB2024 book requested $52.5M for FY2024; the PB2026 book reported $44.5M as actual total obligation authority — $7.96M below the request. 44.5 − 52.5 = -8.0 USD millions — the compact figures above are rounded for reading.
Program lineage
No predecessor/successor lineage was recorded for this program element — no FY-to-FY transfer into or out of this line was stated in the ingested J-books, and none was inferred from the program structure.
Description
Description — Practice Bombs
The purpose of the Practice Bombs budget is to procure a variety of low cost alternative practice bombs to be employed by Navy and Marine Corps Aircraft. Using practice bombs in place of High Explosive (HE) live rounds is a cost effective and practical way to train aircrew, maintenance personnel, and ground attack controllers. Practice bombs also provide increased training opportunity on ranges where HE ordnance is not permitted. The munitions procured through this PE/BLI are procured by the Joint Munitions Command, the Single Manager for Conventional Ammunition, with the exception of the Laser Guided Training Round, which is procured by NAVAIR. Specific Products are, but not limited to the MK-76 and BDU-33 small practice bombs which are low cost 25lb tear dropped shaped practice bombs that simulate a MK-82 low drag configuration used by the Navy and Marine Corps. The CXU-3A/B signal cartridge (daytime operations) spotting charge is used for visual indication of bomb impact. The MK-82 is a 500lb unguided, low-drag practice bomb. Other full-scale inert Practice Bomb variations are the MK-83 1,000lb, MK-84 2,000lb, and BLU-109 2,000lb penetrator. The BLU-137 Inert is a full-scale 2,000lb inert penetrator designed by the USAF to improve survivability of the BLU-109 and may be used as a suitable substitute. Inert General Purpose Bomb cases are filled with an inert material and have the same weight, size, center of gravity and ballistics of the live bomb configurations. The Laser Guided Training Round (LGTR) simulates Laser Guided Weapons and provides a low cost alternative to the use of full scale munitions. The LGTR is capable of replicating the Paveway II laser Guided Bomb and is suitable for deployment from select Navy and Marine Corps aircraft. The round allows the aviator to exercise the coordination between the aircrew and the laser designator and to emulate delivery options and multi-aircraft tactics. The development and retention of this skill set is extensive and the LGTR provides the capability to exercise the system in a cost effective manner. The Practice Bombs budget also funds miscellaneous items including but not limited to low cost items such as M70 series cables, MK-89 adapters, lanyards, lugs, nose plugs, inert fill material, control surfaces, bands, strakes, aero panels, dunnage, packaging and containers required for assembly and shipment of an inert practice bombs. The Product Improvement Program funds efforts to investigate and incorporate design changes to address manufacturing, production and technology insertions that improve practice stores platform integration, system reliability, obsolescence, and producibility. The demand for practice bombs correlates to the Training & Readiness (T&R) requirements for both aviation and ground communities. Each T&R syllabus prescribes a minimum number of "live drops" which can be satisfied with practice ordnance. The release of practice ordnance as part of realistic and tactical training scenarios provides increased safety, readiness, and combat effectiveness for aircrew and ground controllers alike.
Justification
Justification — Practice Bombs
FY 2026 baseline funding is provided for training munitions requirements that are based on the needs of the Fleet Aviation Training and Tactical Squadrons and are updated with actual expenditures on an annual basis. The munitions are essential in training and retaining weapons delivery proficiency. This budget supports critical Navy Title 10 war reserve/operational, training, and test requirements as identified within the DoD Instruction 3000.04 (Munitions Requirements Process) and OPNAV INST 8011.9 (Navy Munitions Requirements Process). Practice Bomb procurements provide the Fleet subscale and/or inert stores in lieu of significantly more expensive full scale and/or high explosive stores procured with General Purpose Bombs funding; thereby reducing the overall cost in achieving fleet training readiness levels. The annual disbursement of training munitions is done via a Non-Combat Expenditure Allocation (NCEA) and provides the individual units with an allocation under which they plan their annual training syllabuses. Additionally, training/inert munitions support the development, fielding, safety, and quality assurance of Navy munitions and equipment throughout their life cycle. These munitions support the individual and collective training of Active and Reserve Component forces. The annual expenditures of practice stores prepares Naval Aviation units for deployment and is the largest driver of current and future munitions procurement. Procurements are primarily designed to replenish the practice bombs weapons used each year to achieve required readiness levels. Unlike procurement of capital assets, a large percentage of weapons are consumed in annual fleet training expenditures; thereby reducing the ability to simply slide procurements a year in response to budget reductions. Barring a reduction in fleet training expenditures and the correlating readiness degradation, any reductions in practice bomb procurements in a given year will be addressed through increased procurements in the out years to restore inventory to a level adequate to support NCEA and fleet readiness. The FY 2026 request was reduced by $0.035 million for Advisory and Assistance Services to promote efficiencies and advance the policies of the Administration in alignment with Executive Order 14222, "Implementing the President's Department of Government Efficiency Cost Efficiency Initiative."
Budget line items(workbook-cited)
P-1/R-1 workbook Total Obligation Authority basis (USD thousands) · PB2026.
Exhibit P-1
| Account | Org | Type | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Procurement of Ammunition, Navy and Marine Corps | N | FY24 Actuals | $44.5M |
| Procurement of Ammunition, Navy and Marine Corps | N | FY25 Enacted | $34.0M |
| Procurement of Ammunition, Navy and Marine Corps | N | FY26 Disc. Request | $45.0M |
| Procurement of Ammunition, Navy and Marine Corps | N | FY26 Total | $45.0M |
Budget Details(R-2/P-40 facts)
J-book detail basis (R-2/P-40, USD millions) · PB2026 — a different accounting basis from the P-1/R-1 workbook TOA above; where the two disagree, the reconciliation strip under Budget figures shows both.
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| Project | All Prior Years | FY24 Actuals | FY25 Total | FY26 Base | FY26 Request |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Program Element | $1.22B | $44.5M | $34.0M | $45.0M | $45.0M |
Follow the dollar
Appropriation → program element → top high-confidence awards → recipient families → congressional districts.
Follow-the-dollar covers 312 of 1,938 programs — only high-confidence budget→award links are shown. why coverage is partial? →
The diagram illustrates the cited table below — amounts shown in the diagram are transaction sums per award (no citation chips); the per-district obligations in the table cite USAspending queries.
| District | Program obligations |
|---|---|
| PA-08 | $207.9M |
Related awards
Award linkage is shown for 32 of 200 profiled companies — high- and medium-confidence USAspending matches, each row labeled; medium is the weaker evidence. why partial award coverage? →
| Recipient | PIID | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
| LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP | N0001914D0008 | high |
| LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP | N0001917C0022 | high |
| LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP | N0001924C0004 | high |
| LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION | N0001923F2574 | high |
Contractor concentration
No concentration index is published for this line. This line's high-confidence links do not clear the floor for a published concentration index — at least 3 awards across 2 contractor families holding positive obligations, with positive net linked dollars. An index below that floor is a fact about the sample, not about the market. Whatever further links this line carries are medium-confidence, and what each medium evidence path does and does not establish is set out in the methodology. Both bases are in the downloadable warehouse.
Lobbying mentions
No Senate LDA lobbying filing in the tracked data mentions this program element by code or alias.
Oversight
Department-level designation (not specific to this program)
GAO lists 5 high-risk areas for DOD as a whole. That designation covers the department, not Practice Bombs. No program-specific GAO finding for this line is in the ingested data. See the DOD oversight record.
Program dossier
No research dossier for this program — dossiers cover 50 of 1,938 programs, the largest fully J-book-detailed lines by FY2026 requested dollars. why no dossier here? →
Primary sources
Open any budget figure for its exact receipt. Verified line items lead with the highlighted government PDF; original spreadsheets download with their budget edition and exhibit in the filename.
Budget totals · TOA sources
FY2026 Department of Defense Budget: Procurement Programs (P-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit P-1 · O457
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2026_DoD_P-1_Procurement.xlsx.
FY2024 Department of Defense Budget: Procurement Programs (P-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit P-1 · O456
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2024_DoD_P-1_Procurement.xlsx.
FY2025 Department of Defense Budget: Procurement Programs (P-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit P-1 · O467
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2025_DoD_P-1_Procurement.xlsx.
Detailed budget justification
The related TOA spreadsheets above use a different accounting basis from R-2/P-40 detail. Their amounts are not assumed to match these detailed sources.