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Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve (RDER)
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 | $0J-book detail · PB2026 |
| FY25 | $0J-book detail · PB2026 |
| FY26 | $99.0KR-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
● actuals (line) · ○ enacted · ◇ request — gaps are editions the program is absent from, never interpolated.
| Series | FY26 |
|---|---|
| Request | $99.0K |
blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.
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 — (U)RAPID DEFENSE EXPERIMENTATION RESERVE (RDER)
This effort is critical for assessing integrated technologies, representative models, and prototype systems within a high-fidelity and realistic operational environment. The objective is to foster comprehensive evaluation, ensuring the efficacy, efficiency, and reliability of all systems involved.
Mission — Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve (RDER)
The Marine Corps component of the Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve (RDER) initiative aligns with this program element (PE). Established in the Defense Planning Guidance for Fiscal Years 2023-2027, this initiative aims to accelerate the modernization of the force by fostering a culture of multi-component experimentation. Through a campaign of learning, the RDER initiative enables participating organizations including services, agencies, and other stakeholders to identify top-tier capabilities derived from Department of Defense (DoD) prototyping programs. Approved projects are executed via large-scale, cross-service experiments designed to validate and refine the Joint Warfighting Concept (JWC). Organizations are encouraged to submit proposals that involve multi-component collaboration with Joint Services, International partners, and other government agencies. Proposals should target one or more of the four key supporting concepts of the Joint Warfighting Concept: Joint Concept for Fires, Joint Concept for Command and Control, Joint Concept for Contested Logistics, and Joint Concept for Information Advantage.
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 | FY26 Disc. Request | $99.0K |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy | N | FY26 Total | $99.0K |
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 | $0 | $0 | $99.0K | $99.0K |
| 2352: Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve (RDER) | $0 | $0 | $0 | $99.0K | $99.0K |
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 Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve (RDER). 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 · P317
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2026_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