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MQ-4 Triton
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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 | $416.0M |
| FY25 | $159.2M |
| FY26 | $133.1M |
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 | $483.2M | $644.5M | $416.0M | ||
| Enacted | – | $654.5M | $416.0M | $159.2M | |
| Request | – | – | $416.0M | $159.2M | $133.1M |
blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.
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 — MQ-4 TRITON
The MQ-4C Triton is a high altitude-long endurance UAS designed to provide Fleet and combatant commanders with persistent maritime Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) of nearly all the world's high-density sea-lanes, littorals, and areas of national interest. The MQ-4C air vehicle, mission control system, specialized sensors, and communications suite play a significant role in achieving the Navy's strategic vision for the 21st century. The Triton system provides persistent ISR and unparalleled situational awareness of the maritime battle space to the supported combatant commander and fleet commander. The system also serves as a Fleet response plan enabler with a persistent, global force offering to provide critical trip wire information for intelligence preparation of the environment. Triton provides the Warfighter with unprecedented levels of battlespace awareness to synchronize actions necessary to maintain maritime Full Spectrum Superiority. Teamed with its manned-capability counterpart, the P-8A, Triton is a key component of the Navy's maritime domain awareness family of systems. MQ-4C Triton leverages Maritime Patrol and Reconnaissance Force manpower, training and maintenance efficiencies. Following successful EOC deployment in 2020, the MQ-4C Triton UAS is currently developing incremental capabilities within the ongoing acquisition program to meet program requirements in support of the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), and to meet EP-3 sundown and the Maritime Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Targeting (MISR&T) transition plan. The full MQ-4C Triton sensor suite will provide near worldwide coverage through a network of orbits inside and outside continental United States, with sufficient air vehicles to remain airborne for 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, out to ranges of 2,000 nautical miles. Onboard sensors will provide detection, classification, tracking and identification of maritime targets and include maritime radar, electro-optical/infra-red and SIGINT systems. Additionally, the MQ-4C communications relay capability will link dispersed forces in the theater of operations and allow Triton to serve as a node in the Navy's networked strategy. Tactical-level data analysis will occur in real-time at shore-based mission control sites connected to the air vehicle via satellite communications. Further intelligence exploitation can be conducted at Fleet shore-based sites or aboard aircraft carriers and other ships. The FY 2026 request provides funding to support production line aircraft through final aircraft delivery in October 2028 (FY 2029), and depot repair capability associated with airframe, avionics, and mission control systems. These activities include funding levels in the Support costs to include peculiar training equipment, peculiar ground support equipment, government and contractor production team, organic and OEM depot capability establishment and fielding of IFC-4 assets in support of OCONUS orbit activations and fleet operations. The program will fund priority sub-system depot maintenance capability and will utilize the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) during the establishment period for depot capability. The MQ-4C Triton UAS is integral to recapitalizing the Navy's Maritime Patrol and Reconnaissance Force. IOC: 4Q FY 2023
Justification
Justification — MQ-4 TRITON
The FY 2026 request supports key elements that include peculiar training equipment, peculiar ground support equipment, organic depot repair capability, and the Government and contractor production team. Production of the MQ-4C aircraft completes with the last aircraft delivery in FY 2029. The FY 2026 request was reduced by $1.616 million for civilian personnel to optimize the workforce in compliance with Executive Order 14210, "Implementing the President's Department of Government Efficiency Workforce Optimization 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aircraft Procurement, Navy | N | FY24 Actuals | $416.0M |
| Aircraft Procurement, Navy | N | FY25 Enacted | $159.2M |
| Aircraft Procurement, Navy | N | FY26 Disc. Request | $133.1M |
| Aircraft Procurement, Navy | N | FY26 Total | $133.1M |
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 | $4.06B | $416.0M | $159.2M | $133.1M | $133.1M |
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.
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? →
Rows marked medium rest on evidence weaker than a program-level match, and of more than one kind. An account-based row, where the award drew from the same appropriation account as this program, is an association, not evidence that this program paid for the contract. Where the evidence is instead an FPDS acquisition-program tag or a subaward description, the program is established but which of its budget lines paid is not. An announcement link a recorded review did not leave standing is medium too. Only high rows rest on the contract naming this program with a recorded review upholding it and no recorded rejection or refutation applying.
| Recipient | PIID | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
| NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION | N0001921C0060 | high |
| NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION | N0001921F0806 | high |
| RAYTHEON COMPANY | N0016417GJQ02 | high |
| RAYTHEON COMPANY | N0016418CJQ37 | high |
| CURTISS-WRIGHT DS, INC. | SPRPA120CK003 | medium |
| L3 TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | SPRPA120FCL0R | medium |
| L3 TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | SPRPA120FCL0S | medium |
| NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION | N0001915C0002 | medium |
| NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION | N0001917C0018 | medium |
| NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION | N0001917F1046 | medium |
| NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION | N0001918C1028 | medium |
| NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION | N0001918F2337 | medium |
| NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION | N0001919C0008 | medium |
| NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION | N0001919C1020 | medium |
| NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION | N0001919F0272 | medium |
| NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION | N0001920F0043 | medium |
| NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION | N0001920F0865 | medium |
| TLD AMERICA CORPORATION | N6833520C0859 | medium |
Contractor concentration
High-confidence award links only, pooled across ingested years. The index uses positive obligations; program obligations are net of deobligations. The figures over every published link, including medium-confidence ones, are in the downloadable warehouse, not on this page — why.
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 MQ-4 Triton. 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 · O340,O341
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 · O341,O342,O343
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 · O342,O344
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.