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Fiscal Receipts

PILOT FISH

NRDT&EPartial Reconciliation0603525N
What it is
PILOT FISH — a research & development program run by Navy.
What changed
+$236.2M FY25→26
Who gets it
No award linkage at high confidence.

Budget Figures

FY24 Actuals
$877.0M
FY25 Total
$982.3M
FY26 Request
$1.22B
FY25→26 Change
$236.2M

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: $877.0MFY25: $982.3MFY26: $1.22BFY24FY25FY26
FY24
$877.0M
FY25
$982.3M
FY26
$1.22B
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$140.8M$124.2M$137.4M$111.3M$140.4M$189.1M$308.6M$391.7M$641.7M$877.0M
Enacted$122.9M$132.1M$132.1M$136.5M$196.6M$328.8M$405.9M$671.0M$916.2M$982.3M
Request$132.1M$132.1M$162.2M$291.1M$358.8M$408.1M$672.5M$916.2M$1.01B$1.22B

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

Asked vs spent: the PB2020 book requested $291.1M for FY2020; the PB2022 book reports $189.1M actually spent — $102.0M below 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 Pilot Fish

The details of this budget justification are classified, per Executive Order 13526, Sec 1.4 (a) and are submitted annually to Congress in the classified budget justification book.

Mission PILOT FISH

The details of this budget justification are classified, per Executive Order 13526, Sec 1.4 (a) and are submitted annually to Congress in the classified budget justification book.

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$877.0M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, NavyNFY25 Enacted$982.3M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, NavyNFY25 Total$982.3M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, NavyNFY26 Disc. Request$1.22B
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, NavyNFY26 Total$1.22B

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

ProjectAll Prior YearsFY24 ActualsFY25 TotalFY26 BaseFY26 Request
Program Element$0$877.0M$982.3M$1.22B$1.22B
0428: Pilot Fish$0$877.0M$982.3M$1.22B$1.22B

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.

Program dossier

Every sentence below carries its citation — warehouse figures open the citation panel, news claims link the cached source.

Research dossiers exist for 50 of 1741 programs — the 50 largest fully J-book-detailed programs by FY2026 request. why no dossier here? →

What it is

  • PILOT FISH (program element 0603525N) is a U.S. Navy research-and-development program funded in the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy account.
  • The program is classified: its budget justification states that the details are classified per Executive Order 13526, Sec. 1.4(a), and are submitted annually to Congress in the classified budget justification book.
  • Because the justification is classified, no public description of the program's specific mission, projects, or deliverables is available in the unclassified budget exhibits.

Why it matters

  • The program's total funding rises from $982,324 thousand (about $982 million) in FY2025 to $1,218,486 thousand (about $1.22 billion) requested for FY2026.
  • That is a year-over-year increase of $236,162 thousand (about $236 million) from FY2025 to FY2026.
  • In FY2024 the program recorded actual spending of $877,003 thousand (about $877 million), so funding has grown steadily across the three years despite the classified nature of the work.
  • The entire FY2026 request of $1,218,486 thousand is discretionary funding; the program element carries no reconciliation (mandatory) request for FY2026.

Key players

  • The program is run by the U.S. Navy, with funding drawn from the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy appropriation.
  • No external players, offices, or partners are named in the unclassified record because the program's justification is classified per Executive Order 13526.