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Fiscal Receipts

Advanced Combat Systems Technology

NRDT&EPartial Reconciliation0603382N
What it is
Advanced Combat Systems Technology — a research & development program run by Navy.
What changed
-$4.97M FY25→26
Who gets it
No award linkage at high confidence.

Budget Figures

FY24 Actuals
$27.1M
FY25 Total
$7.05M
FY26 Request
$2.08M
FY25→26 Change
-$4.97M

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: $27.1MFY25: $7.05MFY26: $2.08MFY24FY25FY26
FY24
$27.1M
FY25
$7.05M
FY26
$2.08M
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$1.58M$1.57M$3.58M$4.45M$38.7M$56.5M$55.4M$40.9M$83.3M$27.1M
Enacted$1.63M$57.0M$61.4M$39.2M$57.9M$52.4M$35.3M$73.1M$6.22M$7.05M
Request$57.0M$61.4M$59.7M$64.7M$70.2M$32.3M$18.6M$6.22M$2.05M$2.08M

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

Asked vs spent: the PB2023 book requested $18.6M for FY2023; the PB2025 book reports $83.3M actually spent — $64.6M 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 Congressional Adds

Congressional add projects not included in other efforts.

Mission Innovative Naval Prototype (INP) Transition (6.4)

This project addresses the advanced component development and prototype demonstration associated with ONR's Innovative Naval Prototypes (INP) Program and the Leap Ahead Technology (LA-Tech) investments. INP and LA-Tech investments represent game changing technologies with the potential to revolutionize operational concepts. They are disruptive in nature as they would dramatically change the way naval forces fight. INPs and LA-Techs push the imagination of our nation's technical talent to deliver transformational warfighting capabilities. Investments may include such mission areas as Unmanned and Autonomous Systems, Directed Energy / Electric Weapons, Electromagnetic Maneuver Warfare, Cyber Warfare, and Undersea Warfare.

Mission Adv Combat System Technology

This funding supports the implementation of the Naval Open Systems Architecture (OSA) strategy. The implementation of this strategy provides the tools and leadership for assisting programs and the Naval Research and Development Establishment (NR&DE) through the technical, business, and cultural transition to OSA. The primary tools and assistance will be established through an enterprise reference architecture that transforms and standardizes the Navy's technical and interoperable baseline. This will be executed through the application of related enterprise engineering technologies with consistent contract language guidance, Intellectual Property strategies, and improvements in transparency of design disclosure and information exchange on past and current investments to support portfolio management and cross-program reuse. The OSA transformation effort is designed to be applied to CNO priority capability deliveries. Those elements include ensuring that naval systems, families of systems, modeling and simulation, digital engineering transformation programs and prototypes move collectively to modular OSA in accordance with SECNAV Instruction 5000.2G (Department of the Navy Implementation of the Defense Acquisition System and The Adaptive Acquisition Framework, 08 April 2022) which mandates that all DoD programs utilize modular OSA to field affordable and interoperable systems. This project supports the Naval strategic shift in technical and business methods to establish cooperation and cross-domain/community of interest business relationships. This improves innovation and economies of scale throughout the Navy and Marine Corps. This project includes identification of use cases and cost avoidance as a result of moving the Navy towards an open systems approach, supported by the development of open systems technologies and integrated best operational and technical practices for open systems development within Naval acquisition. This project also supports systems engineering and acquisition services to deliver capabilities through acquisition, development, integration, production, test, deployment and sustainment of interoperable command, control, communication, computers, intelligence, surveillance reconnaissance, cyber, and information technology capabilities. Naval OSA ensures system architectures become extensible and scalable in function, capacity, and workload to meet Service and Joint warfighting requirements. This also includes the identification and development of common software components, functions, reuse methodologies, and extensible product lines.

Mission Advanced Combat Systems Tech

Open architecture sets standards for technology fields to promote interoperability. For defense systems, standards enable interconnectivity across services and in coalition operations at machine-to-machine speeds. Reducing barriers associated with proprietary software speeds development and delivery of warfighting advantage. The Advanced Combat System Technology line is to evolve the technical and business practices for programs to change to an open architecture construct. The program was constructed to mature both technical and business model integration for C5I systems programs of record in an open architecture environment. The priority was incorporating the principles of modular design and design disclosure, reusable application software, interoperability and secure information exchange, lifecycle affordability and encouraging competition and collaboration. Project Unit 0324: This funding supports the implementation of the Naval Open Systems Architecture (OSA) Strategy. The primary tools and assistance will be established through the implementation of an enterprise reference architecture that transforms and standardizes the Navy technical and interoperability baseline and through related enterprise engineering technologies with consistent contract language guidance, Intellectual Property strategies and improvements in transparency of design disclosure and information exchange on past and current investments; support portfolio management and cross-program reuse. Applicable technologies will also be leveraged to facilitate the Navy's implementation of OSA and similar constructs like Modular Open Systems Approaches (MOSA). The OSA transformation effort will be applied to programs of record. Those elements include ensuring that naval systems, families of systems, programs, and prototypes move to modular OSA in accordance with SECNAV Instruction 5000.2G (Department of the Navy Implementation of the Defense Acquisition System and The Adaptive Acquisition Framework, 08 April 2022) which mandates that all DoD programs utilize Modular OSA to field affordable and interoperable systems. This project facilitates a strategic shift in the technical and business methods to establish cooperation and cross-domain/community of interest (COI) business relationships. This improves innovation and economies of scale throughout the Navy and Marine Corps. This project includes identification of use cases and cost avoidance as a result of moving the Navy towards an open systems approach, supported by the development of open systems technologies and integrated best operational and technical practices for open systems development within Naval acquisition. This project also supports systems engineering and acquisition services to deliver capabilities through acquisition, development, integration, production, test, deployment and sustainment of interoperable command, control, communication, computers, intelligence, surveillance reconnaissance, cyber, and information technology capabilities. Naval OSA ensures system architectures become extensible and scalable in function, capacity, and workload to meet Service and Joint warfighting requirements. This also includes the identification and development of common software components, functions, reuse methodologies, and extensible product lines. Project 3438: This activity addresses the advanced component development and prototype demonstration associated with ONR's Innovative Naval Prototypes (INP) Program and the Leap Ahead Technology (LA-Tech) investments. INP and LA-Tech investments represent game changing technologies with the potential to revolutionize operational concepts. They are disruptive in nature as they would dramatically change the way naval forces fight. INPs and LA-Techs push the imagination of our nation's technical talent to deliver transformational warfighting capabilities. Investments may include such mission areas as Unmanned and Autonomous Systems, Directed Energy / Electric Weapons, Electromagnetic Maneuver Warfare, Cyber Warfare, and Undersea Warfare. Advanced Component Development and Prototypes (ACD&P) efforts necessary to evaluate integrated technologies, representative modes or prototype systems in a high fidelity and realistic operating environment are funded in this PE. Most of the work in this PE can be classified between Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 6 (system/subsystem model or prototype demonstration in a relevant environment) and TRL 7 (system prototype demonstration in an operational environment).

Justification

No accomplishments or planned-program narratives in this line's J-book detail — some exhibits carry figures without per-project prose.

Budget Line Items(workbook-cited)

Exhibit R-1

AccountOrgTypeAmount
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, NavyNFY24 Actuals$27.1M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, NavyNFY25 Enacted$7.05M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, NavyNFY25 Total$7.05M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, NavyNFY26 Disc. Request$2.08M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, NavyNFY26 Total$2.08M

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

ProjectAll Prior YearsFY24 ActualsFY25 TotalFY26 BaseFY26 Request
9999: Congressional Adds$0$18.3M$5.00M$0$0
3438: Innovative Naval Prototype (INP) Transition (6.4)$0$6.65M$0$0$0
Program Element$14.5M$27.1M$7.05M$2.08M$2.08M
0324: Adv Combat System Technology$14.5M$2.15M$2.05M$2.08M$2.08M

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? →