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Fiscal Receipts

Power Projection Applied Research

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What it is
Power Projection Applied Research — a research & development program run by Navy.
What changed
+$6.79M FY25→26
Who gets it
No award linkage at high confidence.

Budget Figures

FY24 Actuals
$23.8M
FY25 Total
$23.8M
FY26 Request
$30.6M
FY25→26 Change
$6.79M

FY2026 award data is a partial year — USASpending awards are reported on a rolling basis and the fiscal year does not close until September 30. why partial FY2026 data? →

Budget Trajectory
FY24: $23.8MFY25: $23.8MFY26: $30.6MFY24FY25FY26
FY24
$23.8M
FY25
$23.8M
FY26
$30.6M
Decade view — each figure cites its own President's Budget edition
FY2015 actuals — PB2017 editionFY2016 actuals — PB2018 editionFY2017 actuals — PB2019 editionFY2018 actuals — PB2020 editionFY2019 actuals — PB2021 editionFY2020 actuals — PB2022 editionFY2021 actuals — PB2023 editionFY2022 actuals — PB2024 editionFY2023 actuals — PB2025 editionFY2024 actuals — PB2026 editionFY2016 enacted — PB2017 editionFY2017 enacted — PB2018 editionFY2018 enacted — PB2019 editionFY2019 enacted — PB2020 editionFY2020 enacted — PB2021 editionFY2021 enacted — PB2022 editionFY2022 enacted — PB2023 editionFY2023 enacted — PB2024 editionFY2024 enacted — PB2025 editionFY2025 enacted — PB2026 editionFY2017 request — PB2017 editionFY2018 request — PB2018 editionFY2019 request — PB2019 editionFY2020 request — PB2020 editionFY2021 request — PB2021 editionFY2022 request — PB2022 editionFY2023 request — PB2023 editionFY2024 request — PB2024 editionFY2025 request — PB2025 editionFY2026 request — PB2026 editionFY15FY26

● actuals (line)  ·  ○ enacted  ·  ◇ request — gaps are editions the program is absent from, never interpolated.

SeriesFY15FY16FY17FY18FY19FY20FY21FY22FY23FY24FY25FY26
Actuals$94.9M$88.9M$70.0M$23.0M$26.9M$27.9M$37.9M$41.8M$30.5M$23.8M
Enacted$87.2M$41.4M$13.6M$27.6M$28.5M$38.7M$43.0M$28.0M$24.0M$23.8M
Request$41.4M$13.6M$14.6M$18.5M$17.8M$23.0M$23.0M$24.0M$23.8M$30.6M

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

Asked vs spent: the PB2017 book requested $41.4M for FY2017; the PB2019 book reports $70.0M actually spent — $28.6M above the request.

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 Power Proj Applied Research

In an Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabled maritime battlespace, the ability to fight at the speed of light will determine the outcome. The effective defense against threats increasingly beyond human speed, will enable U.S. naval forces to outthink, outmaneuver and outfight adversaries. This Program Element (PE) supports both advanced technology research and near to mid-term transition opportunities. The advanced research focus is primarily on Directed Energy, High Speed Weapon Propulsion, Electro-Optic/Infrared (EO/IR) Sensor Technologies, and Naval Precision Strike Decision Tools and Planning. The goal of this research is to develop technologies and capabilities that enable Directed Energy (DE) weapons as well as defense against adversary DE systems; the development of vehicle and propulsion technology for high-speed weapons operating from Mach 3 and beyond; investment in the areas of Electro Optic/Infrared devices and advanced sensors; and technologies that provide the navy of the future the ability to quickly locate, target, and strike critical targets in the maritime environment and ashore.

Mission Power Proj Applied Research

In an Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabled maritime battlespace, the ability to fight at the speed of light will determine the outcome. The effective defense against threats increasingly beyond human speed, will enable U.S. naval forces to outthink, outmaneuver and outfight adversaries. This Program Element (PE) supports both advanced technology research and near to mid-term transition opportunities. The advanced research focus is primarily on Directed Energy, High Speed Weapon Propulsion, Electro-Optic/Infrared (EO/IR) Sensor Technologies. The goal of this research is to develop technologies and capabilities that enable Directed Energy (DE) weapons as well as defense against adversary DE systems; the development of vehicle and propulsion technology for high-speed weapons operating from Mach 3 and beyond; investment in the areas of Electro Optic/Infrared devices and advanced sensors; and technologies that provide the navy of the future the ability to quickly locate, target, and strike critical targets in the maritime environment and ashore. Today's Sailors and Marines are enabled by naval Science and Technology (S&T). Since 1946, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) has fostered scientific research related to the maintenance of maritime superiority and national defense. ONR manages the Department of the Navy's (DON) portfolio of naval Basic Research, Applied Research, and Advanced Technology Development investments to ensure naval forces can effectively deter conflict, but when called upon, fight, win and come home safe. Current investments hedge against uncertainty, providing solutions to commanders today, and options for the future. The Naval S&T budget supports higher guidance defined by the National Defense Strategy, and responds to requirements identified by the Secretary of the Navy through research priorities set by the Chief of Naval Research, coordinated across the Naval Research Enterprise (NRE), and outlined in the Naval R&D Framework. This Program Element (PE) funds Applied Research, which is the systematic study to understand the means to meet a recognized and specific need. Most of the work in this PE can be classified between Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 2 (technology concept and/or application formulation) and TRL 4 (component and/or breadboard validation in laboratory environments). Due to the number of efforts in this PE, the programs described herein are representative of the work included in this PE.

Justification

Accomplishments & Planned Programs (3)

High Speed Propulsion and Advanced Weapon Technologies

This activity is focused on applied research to support the development of vehicle, propulsion, and energetic material technologies for high-speed and advanced weapons. The goal is to develop computational, experimental and flight testing capabilities along with the workforce needed to support the development of high speed, advanced weapons. Research includes: Objectives: - Prediction and control of hypersonic boundary-layers and shock-wave boundary-layer interactions - Development of hypersonic and advanced weapon technology ground test facilities, instrumentation and nonintrusive diagnostics - Prediction of interactions between materials and the high-speed flight environment such as flight through weather and oxidation of thermal protection systems - Development of improved modeling tools to predict the aerothermal and aerodynamic performance of hypersonic and advanced weapons over a wide range of velocities and altitudes - Development of ultra-high temperature materials, cooling strategies and thermal protection systems that can survive the launch and flight environment - Development high-speed propulsion technologies such as solid fuel ramjets

Directed Energy

The goal of this activity is to develop technologies and capabilities that enable Directed Energy (DE) weapons for naval applications as well as defense against adversary DE systems. The advanced research focus is in Naval Ship Defense, Naval Air Defense, and Naval Precision Strike Operations. The scope of this activity includes systems, subsystems and their associated technologies. These technologies provide naval forces the ability to quickly engage critical and emerging targets, in cost effective means, while minimizing potential collateral damage, as well as the ability to defend against and counter adversarial modes of attack.

Navigation, Electro Optic/Infrared (EO/IR), and Sensor Technologies

This activity describes Navy Science and Technology investments in the areas of Electro Optic/Infrared (EO/IR) devices and advanced sensors and includes investment/performance in the technology areas of EO/IR, Electronic Warfare (EW), Electromagnetic Warfare, and Communications.

Budget Line Items(workbook-cited)

Exhibit R-1

AccountOrgTypeAmount
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, NavyNFY24 Actuals$23.8M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, NavyNFY25 Enacted$23.8M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, NavyNFY25 Total$23.8M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, NavyNFY26 Disc. Request$30.6M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, NavyNFY26 Total$30.6M

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

ProjectAll Prior YearsFY24 ActualsFY25 TotalFY26 BaseFY26 Request
Program Element$0$23.8M$23.8M$30.6M$30.6M
0000: Power Proj Applied Research$0$23.8M$23.8M$30.6M$30.6M

No follow-the-dollar view — this program's awards haven't been crosswalked at high confidence (flows cover 17 of 1741 programs). why coverage is partial? →

Awards

No awards are linked to this program element at high confidence — the budget→award crosswalk only asserts links it can defend, and this line has none yet.

Lobbying Mentions

No Senate LDA lobbying filing in the tracked data mentions this program element by code or alias.

No research dossier for this program — dossiers cover 50 of 1741 programs, the largest fully J-book-detailed lines by FY2026 requested dollars. why no dossier here? →