Advanced Tactical Unmanned Aircraft… (PE 0304240M) · Navy

What it is

Advanced Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System (0304240M) is a Navy research & development line funded in the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy account. Its J-book detail breaks the line into 2 projects.

What changed

-$682.0K FY25→26 R-1 TOA · PB2026

Who gets it

No single contractor is published as this line's leader. 1 linked award record is listed below. 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. Why the crosswalk is partial.

Budget figures

FY24 Actuals

$10.5MR-1 TOA · PB2026

FY25 Total

$3.50MR-1 TOA · PB2026

FY26 Request

$2.82MR-1 TOA · PB2026

FY25→26 Change

-$682.0KR-1 TOA · PB2026

Data coverage

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

The program's 3 summary figures for FY24 to FY26, plotted in fiscal-year order: this line ends lower than it starts. The points are the summary cards above, not a separate derivation; the table beside the chart carries each figure with its own citation.

Budget trajectory: one row per fiscal year, carrying the summary figure the sparkline plots. Every figure opens its own citation.
Fiscal year	Amount
FY24	$10.5M
FY25	$3.50M
FY26	$2.82M

All series figures: R-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

11 fiscal years of this program as published (FY2016–FY2026): a line through the actuals (filled dots), with the enacted (hollow circles) and request (diamonds) markers each edition reported. Read it for direction, not for precision — this program's actuals line rises across the span. The grid below is the same data as text, one cited figure per cell.

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.

Decade series values by fiscal year and President's Budget edition: one row per series (actuals, enacted, request), one column per fiscal year. Every figure opens its own citation.
Series	FY16	FY17	FY18	FY19	FY20	FY21	FY22	FY23	FY24	FY25	FY26
Actuals	$0	$0	$5.20M	$17.6M	$45.4M	$28.1M	$31.2M	$11.7M	$10.5M
Enacted	–	$0	$7.98M	$17.6M	$45.4M	$28.1M	$31.2M	$11.7M	$539.0K	$3.50M
Request		–	$7.98M	$25.3M	$21.2M	$22.6M	$16.2M	$1.74M	$539.0K	$3.50M	$2.82M

blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.

Asked vs spent: the PB2020 book requested $21.2M for FY2020; the PB2022 book reported $45.4M as actual total obligation authority — $24.3M above the request. 45.41 − 21.16 = 24.25 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

Mission — Advanced Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System

Project 3135 - The Marine Air Ground Task Force (MAGTF) Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Expeditionary (MUX) Family of Systems (FoS) project provides funding to address requirements identified in the October 2016 MUX Initial Capabilities Document (ICD) and April 2020 MUX Requirements Clarification document. This PE supports development, testing, experimentation, prototyping, concept refinement and risk reduction of advanced payloads, system architectures, mission control capabilities, ground control stations, advanced and interoperable networking and communications systems and infrastructure, and new unmanned aircraft systems Additionally this PE will develop CONOPS to integrate the MUX FoS into joint programs and operating concepts to mitigate technical risk through model-based systems engineering, analysis, simulation, test and evaluation, and partnership with industry. The MUX FoS provides Advanced Tactical UAS in support of Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations (EABO), Littoral Operations in Contested Environments (LOCE), and Distributed Maritime Operations (DMO) to provide advanced, unmanned, multi-mission capability for the MAGTF and Marine Littoral Regiment (MLR).

Mission — USMC MUX

Project 3135 - The Marine Air Ground Task Force (MAGTF) Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Expeditionary (MUX) Family of Systems (FoS) project provides funding to address requirements identified in the October 2016 MUX Initial Capabilities Document (ICD) and April 2020 MUX Requirements Clarification document. This PE supports development, testing, experimentation, prototyping, concept refinement and risk reduction of advanced payloads, system architectures, mission control capabilities, ground control stations, advanced and interoperable networking and communications systems and infrastructure, and new unmanned aircraft systems Additionally this PE will develop CONOPS to integrate the MUX FoS into joint programs and operating concepts to mitigate technical risk through model-based systems engineering, analysis, simulation, test and evaluation, and partnership with industry. The MUX FoS provides Advanced Tactical UAS in support of Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations (EABO), Littoral Operations in Contested Environments (LOCE), and Distributed Maritime Operations (DMO) to provide advanced, unmanned, multi-mission capability for the MAGTF and Marine Littoral Regiment (MLR). MUX FoS within this Program Element will continue Mission System Payload development and assessment efforts for future system within and external to MALE program. Future Mission System Payloads will support Mission Sensors and other critical technologies that support future planned FoS capability.

Mission — Congressional Adds

Project C365 - The Mobile Unmanned/Manned Distributed Lethality Airborne Network (MUDLAN) project provides development, testing, fleet experimentation, concept refinement and risk reduction of high-bandwidth, adaptable, resilient, and protected communications systems in support of future sensors and communications. These capabilities are needed for unmanned and manned operations in a distributed maritime operational environment, connecting and distributing data across multiple users and multiple domains in a common network architecture which enhances tactical edge situational awareness with a single user interface.

Justification

Accomplishments & Planned Programs (2)

Mission System Development

Funding supports the development and integration of mission system payloads, software, and system upgrades and modifications supporting MUX Family of Systems (FoS) concepts identified within the MUX Initial Capabilities Document (ICD). Funding also supports studies, experimentation, demonstration and development of future MUX FoS systems.

MUX Program Support

Funding supports the development and integration of mission system payloads supporting MUX Family of Systems (FoS) concepts identified within the MUX Initial Capabilities Document (ICD). Funding support studies, experimentation, demonstration and development of future MUX FoS systems.

Budget line items(workbook-cited)

P-1/R-1 workbook Total Obligation Authority basis (USD thousands) · PB2026.

Exhibit R-1

Account	Org	Type	Amount
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy	N	FY24 Actuals	$10.5M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy	N	FY25 Enacted	$3.50M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy	N	FY25 Total	$3.50M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy	N	FY26 Disc. Request	$2.82M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy	N	FY26 Total	$2.82M

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.

Wider than this screen — swipe the table sideways for the remaining fiscal-year columns.

Project	All Prior Years	FY24 Actuals	FY25 Total	FY26 Base	FY26 Request
Program Element	$134.2M	$10.5M	$3.50M	$2.82M	$2.82M
3135: USMC MUX	$58.2M	$539.0K	$3.50M	$2.82M	$2.82M
9999: Congressional Adds	$76.0M	$10.0M	$0	$0	$0

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 program's money traced left to right: the N appropriation, program element 0304240M (Advanced Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System), its 2 largest high-confidence awards, the 1 recipient family behind them, and the 2 congressional districts the work is recorded in. Read it for concentration — how few families and districts the awards run through. Amounts inside the diagram are illustrative per-award transaction sums; the table below carries the cited per-district obligations.

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.

The diagram as text: one row per congressional district in the diagram, the recipient families shown there, and that district's cited program obligations.
District	Recipients in diagram	Program obligations
VA-11	GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY	$109.8M
VA-08	GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY	$8.91M

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
GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY	FA875020C0555	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

Showing 25 of 101 from the Senate LDA disclosure database.

AEROSPACE INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INCUnmanned|Aircraft2026matched 2+ title words

House and Senate FAA legislation as it pertains to aviation safety, unmanned aircraft systems, advanced air mobility…

Advanced Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System

Budget figures

Budget trajectory

Decade view

Program lineage

Description

Mission — Advanced Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System source

Mission — USMC MUX source

Mission — Congressional Adds source

Justification

Accomplishments & Planned Programs (2)

Budget line items(workbook-cited)

Budget Details(R-2/P-40 facts)

Follow the dollar

Related awards

Contractor concentration

Lobbying mentions

Oversight

Program dossier

Primary sources

Budget totals · TOA sources

Detailed budget justification

Mission — Advanced Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System

Mission — USMC MUX

Mission — Congressional Adds