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PILOT FISH
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 | $877.0M |
| FY25 | $982.3M |
| FY26 | $1.22B |
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 | $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 reported $189.1M as actual total obligation authority — $102.0M below the request. 189.1 − 291.1 = -102.0 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 — 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)
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 | $877.0M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy | N | FY25 Enacted | $982.3M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy | N | FY25 Total | $982.3M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy | N | FY26 Disc. Request | $1.22B |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy | N | FY26 Total | $1.22B |
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 | $877.0M | $982.3M | $1.22B | $1.22B |
| 0428: Pilot Fish | $0 | $877.0M | $982.3M | $1.22B | $1.22B |
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 PILOT FISH. No program-specific GAO finding for this line is in the ingested data. See the DOD oversight record.
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 1,938 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.
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 · J279
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 · J247
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 · J274
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 · J276
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 · J292
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 · J305
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 · J276
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 · J267
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 · J265
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 · J266
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.
RDTEN BA1-3 Book · www.secnav.navy.mil