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Fiscal Receipts

Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve (RDER)

NRDT&EPartial Reconciliation0604025M
What it is
Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve (RDER) — a research & development program run by Navy.
What changed
No FY25→26 comparison — trajectory data incomplete for this line.
Who gets it
No award linkage at high confidence.

Budget Figures

FY24 Actuals
$0
FY25 Total
FY26 Request
$99.0K
FY25→26 Change

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

Insufficient trajectory data for sparkline (only FY26 available).

Decade view — each figure cites its own President's Budget edition
FY2026 request — PB2026 editionFY26FY26

● actuals (line)  ·  ○ enacted  ·  ◇ request — gaps are editions the program is absent from, never interpolated.

SeriesFY26
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 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.

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.

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, NavyNFY26 Disc. Request$99.0K
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, NavyNFY26 Total$99.0K

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

ProjectAll Prior YearsFY24 ActualsFY25 TotalFY26 BaseFY26 Request
2352: Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve (RDER)$0$0$0$99.0K$99.0K
Program Element$0$0$0$99.0K$99.0K

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? →