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Mine and Expeditionary Warfare Applied Research
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 | $30.0M |
| FY25 | $32.5M |
| FY26 | $29.1M |
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
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 | FY15 | FY16 | FY17 | FY18 | FY19 | FY20 | FY21 | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actuals | $34.3M | $34.6M | $31.3M | $35.4M | $37.4M | $52.3M | $33.2M | $41.0M | $46.7M | $30.0M | ||
| Enacted | $37.4M | $33.9M | $32.7M | $38.2M | $54.1M | $33.1M | $42.2M | $48.6M | $30.4M | $32.5M | ||
| Request | $33.9M | $32.7M | $37.5M | $36.1M | $30.7M | $32.2M | $31.6M | $30.4M | $31.5M | $29.1M |
blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.
Asked vs spent: the PB2020 book requested $36.1M for FY2020; the PB2022 book reported $52.3M as actual total obligation authority — $16.3M above the request. 52.33 − 36.07 = 16.26 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 — Mine and Expeditionary Warfare Applied Research
Sea mines remain a significant threat to ships. In fact, fifteen U.S. Navy ships have been sunk or damaged by mines since World War II, almost four times more than any other weapon. The Mine and Expeditionary Warfare Applied Research Program Element (PE) provides technologies for Naval Mine Countermeasures (MCM), Expeditionary Warfare, U.S. Naval sea mining, Naval Special Warfare (NSW), and Joint Tri-Service Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) as well as continuing support to research vessels of the U.S. Academic Research Fleet for operations and maintenance that enable applied research at sea. This program strongly aligns with the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joint Warfighting Capability Objectives through the development of technologies to achieve military objectives with minimal casualties and collateral damage. This investment will enable Ship-to-Objective Maneuver (STOM) and focus on technologies that will provide the Naval Force with the capability to dominate the battlespace, project power from the sea, and support forces ashore with particular emphasis on rapid MCM operations. These efforts concentrate on the development and transition of technologies for the MCM-related and Urban Asymmetric/Expeditionary Warfare Operations (UAEO)-related Future Naval Capabilities (FNC) Enabling Capabilities (ECs). The Mine and Obstacle Detection and Neutralization efforts include technologies for clandestine and overt minefield reconnaissance, organic ship self-protection, organic mine hunting and neutralization/breaching. The Urban Asymmetric Operation effort includes critical warfighting functions such as Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR), fires, maneuver, sustainment, etc. The Naval Special Warfare and Explosive Ordnance Disposal technology efforts concentrate on the development of technologies for safe near-shore mine detection, diver mobility and survivability, and ordnance disposal operations. The activities described in this PE address future Navy and Marine Corps capabilities needed to maintain maritime superiority and ensure national security. They are based on input from Naval Research Enterprise stakeholders including the Naval enterprises, the combatant commands, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations (OPNAV) and Headquarters Marine Corps and are designed to exploit breakthroughs in science and technology in order to deliver maximum warfighting benefit to our sailors and Marines. These efforts align with shared priorities throughout the whole of RDT&E in order to quickly advance new capabilities from discovery to deployment across the warfighting domains. 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 and 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.
Mission — Mine and Expeditionary Warfare Applied Research
This Project focuses on reducing the time involved in conducting Mine Countermeasure (MCM) operations and increasing safe standoff from minefields. It develops and transitions technologies for MCM-related and UAEO-related Future Naval Capabilities (FNC). The MIW effort includes technologies for clandestine and overt minefield reconnaissance, organic ship self-protection, organic mine-hunting, neutralization/breaching and clearance. The Littoral Warfare effort includes critical warfighting functions such as C4ISR, fires, maneuver, sustainment. The sea mining effort emphasizes technologies for future sea mines. The Naval Special Warfare and Explosive Ordnance technology efforts concentrate on the development of technologies to enhance diver capabilities including: safe near-shore mine sensing, mobility and survivability, and ordnance disposal operations.
Mission — Congressional Adds
Congressional Interest Items not included in other Projects.
Justification
Accomplishments & Planned Programs (4)
Mine Technology
This activity primarily focuses on developing and demonstrating technologies to support on-demand battlespace shaping through advanced undersea weapons and next generation mining concepts. Efforts include Command & Control to support remote control, advanced sensing technologies, compatibility with options for unmanned delivery, detection & classification, and targeting solutions. Mine technology research supports Fleet demand for capability and prototype development for next generation naval mining concepts.
Mine/Obstacle Detection
This activity focuses on applied research to enable longer detection ranges and precise detection and mine location with fewer false alarms in a variety of challenging environments. It supports Expeditionary Maneuver and Undersea Warfare related Future Naval Capabilities (FNCs). Efforts include novel sonar technologies for longer range detection and classification of mine-like targets or obstacles on or near the seafloor, magnetic gradiometer sensing, electro-optic (EO) technology for buried mine identification, and sensor integration onto Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs). EO sensor research develops algorithms to enable image processing for rapid overt reconnaissance from an Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS). Efforts include the development of processing, classification and data fusion techniques to reduce operator workload, and an expert system used to predict mine burial. Efforts also support development of MCM Mission Modules for Littoral Combat Ships. The program is strongly aligned with the Oceanographer of the Navy and the research topics addressed by this activity reflect the priorities for improved forecasts of the operational environment and the development and use of autonomous systems. These efforts support collection of environmental observations and operations and maintenance of research vessels of the U.S. Academic Research Fleet to enable science at sea. Field research within this activity that using active acoustic transmissions requires modeling of the acoustic effects of sound on marine life in order to meet Navy environmental requirements.
Mine/Obstacle Neutralization
This activity includes applied research to support selected Expeditionary Maneuver and Undersea Warfare-related Future Naval Capabilities (FNC) for the rapid neutralization of mines, targets and obstacles, and sea mine jamming techniques to increase surface ship safe standoff from threat mines. It includes computational tools and models to assess mine and obstacle vulnerability and lethality of novel approaches for neutralization to support various far-term Surf Zone and Beach Zone mine and obstacle breaching system concepts.
Special Warfare/EOD
The goal of this effort is to develop technologies to extend stand-off of special operations and Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) forces in to extend stand off and decrease time on target of special operations and EOD forces in complex environments, clandestine hydrography, mine clearance and port security missions while increasing the range and effectiveness of divers. Advanced technologies are needed to gain access to areas contaminated by area-denial sensors and/or booby traps. Developed technologies will transition to the Naval EOD program, the Naval Special Warfare program, the Joint Service EOD Program, or the DOD Technical Response Group. This activity includes applied research in sensor technology for Naval Special Warfare (NSW) and EOD autonomous and handheld sonar systems to increase detection range and accuracy in harsh environments. Other efforts include such mission support technology improvements as communications, navigation, and manned-unmanned teaming (MUMT) research to support shared missions between UUVs and human divers.
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 | $30.0M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy | N | FY25 Enacted | $32.5M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy | N | FY25 Total | $32.5M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy | N | FY26 Disc. Request | $29.1M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy | N | FY26 Total | $29.1M |
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 | $0 | $30.0M | $32.5M | $29.1M | $29.1M |
| 0000: Mine and Expeditionary Warfare Applied Research | $0 | $30.0M | $31.5M | $29.1M | $29.1M |
| 9999: Congressional Adds | $0 | $0 | $1.00M | $0 | $0 |
Follow the dollar
No follow-the-dollar view — this program's awards haven't been crosswalked at high confidence (flows cover 312 of 1,938 programs). why coverage is partial? →
Awards
No awards are linked to this program element at high or medium 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.
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 Mine and Expeditionary Warfare Applied Research. 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: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J254
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2026_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2017 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J224
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2017_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2018 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J248
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2018_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2019 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J250
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2019_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2020 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J269
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2020_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2021 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J281
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2021_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2022 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J251
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2022_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2023 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J242
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2023_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2024 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J240
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2024_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2025 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J241
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2025_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.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.