Fiscal Receipts

Technology Maturation Initiatives

MDARDT&EPartial Reconciliation0604115C
What it is
Technology Maturation Initiatives (0604115C) is a MDA research & development line funded in the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide account. Its J-book detail breaks the line into 1 project.
What changed
No FY25→26 comparison — endpoints unavailable or on different bases.
Who gets it
No award linkage at high confidence.

Budget Figures

FY24 Actuals
$10.0MR-1 TOA · PB2026
FY25 Total
$2.50MR-1 TOA · PB2026
FY26 Request
$0P-40 detail · PB2026
FY25→26 Change
No comparison: endpoints unavailable or on different bases

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
The program's 3 summary figures for FY24 to FY26, plotted in fiscal-year order so the direction of travel is readable at a glance: this line ends lower than it starts. The points are the summary cards above, not a separate derivation; the table beside the chart carries each figure with its own citation.
The program's 3 summary figures for FY24 to FY26, plotted in fiscal-year order so the direction of travel is readable at a glance: this line ends lower than it starts. The points are the summary cards above, not a separate derivation; the table beside the chart carries each figure with its own citation.FY24: $10.0MFY25: $2.50MFY26: $0FY24FY25FY26
Budget trajectory: one row per fiscal year, carrying the summary figure the sparkline plots. Every figure opens its own citation.
Fiscal yearAmount
FY24$10.0MR-1 TOA · PB2026
FY25$2.50MR-1 TOA · PB2026
FY26$0P-40 detail · 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
11 fiscal years of this program as published (FY2015–FY2025): a line through the actuals (filled dots), with the enacted (hollow circles) and request (diamonds) markers each edition reported. Read it for direction, not for precision — this program's actuals line rises across the span. The grid below is the same data as text, one cited figure per cell.
11 fiscal years of this program as published (FY2015–FY2025): a line through the actuals (filled dots), with the enacted (hollow circles) and request (diamonds) markers each edition reported. Read it for direction, not for precision — this program's actuals line rises across the span. The grid below is the same data as text, one cited figure per cell.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 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 editionFY15FY17FY19FY21FY23FY25

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.

Decade series values by fiscal year and President's Budget edition: one row per series (actuals, enacted, request), one column per fiscal year. Every figure opens its own citation.
SeriesFY15FY16FY17FY18FY19FY20FY21FY22FY23FY24FY25
Actuals$0$24.7M$84.5M$163.9M$312.1M$259.5M$105.9M$39.2M$16.0M$10.0M
Enacted$27.2M$99.4M$128.4M$316.8M$264.5M$107.4M$39.2M$16.0M–$2.50M
Request$90.3M$128.4M$148.8M$303.5M$67.4M$0$0$0–

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

Asked vs spent: the PB2019 book requested $148.8M for FY2019; the PB2021 book reported $312.1M as actual total obligation authority — $163.3M above the request. 312.1 − 148.8 = 163.3 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 — Technology Maturation Initiatives

Technology Maturation Initiatives (TMI) demonstrates the utility of directed energy for missile defense. The Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) directed energy plan incrementally demonstrates and improves the constituent components required to execute a directed energy acquisition, tracking, and lethality kill chain. The directed energy effort advances the technology readiness levels of emerging and developing technologies, while simultaneously assessing the performance and contributions to the Missile Defense System architecture. TMI included analysis, development, demonstration, systems engineering and test efforts to examine, develop, and improve directed energy systems, disruptive directed energy concepts, sensors, and future missile defense technologies. Directed Energy Demonstrator Development addressed technology risk reduction and maturation for high powered strategic lasers, beam control, lethality, and related technologies. The efforts remain tightly coupled with Office of the Undersecretary of Defense Research and Engineering (OUSD(R&E)) High Energy Laser Development Road Map, and are essential to mature strategic laser technology. MDA collaborates with the Combatant Commands, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Department of Energy, Joint Directed Energy Transition Office, Military Departments, National Laboratories and OUSD(R&E) in a systems engineering based strategy to research, analyze, develop and test directed energy weapons technology. MDA continues to participate in the Department's Directed Energy Reviews.

Mission — Directed Energy Demonstrator Development

The Directed Energy Demonstrator Development (DEDD) project develops, integrates, and tests the component technologies required to scale electric lasers to hundreds of kilowatts. Laser scaling focused on maturing laser capability to levels sufficient to enter into the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense Research and Engineering High Energy Laser Road Map efforts. The DEDD project provided the necessary technology, test data, and operations familiarity to successfully transition to a higher power directed energy weapon. MDA continues to participate in the Department's Directed Energy Reviews.

Justification

Accomplishments & Planned Programs (1)

Directed Energy Demonstrator Development

Laser scaling develops, integrates, and tests the component technologies required for scaling electric lasers while maintaining optimal size, weight, and power metrics and near diffraction limited beam quality.

Budget Line Items(workbook-cited)

P-1/R-1 workbook Total Obligation Authority basis (USD thousands) · PB2026.

Exhibit R-1

AccountOrgTypeAmount
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-WideMDAFY24 Actuals$10.0M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-WideMDAFY25 Enacted$2.50M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-WideMDAFY25 Total$2.50M

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.

ProjectAll Prior YearsFY24 ActualsFY25 TotalFY26 BaseFY26 Request
Program Element$503.8M$10.0M$2.50M$0$0
MD98: Directed Energy Demonstrator Development$503.8M$10.0M$2.50M$0$0

No follow-the-dollar view — this program's awards haven't been crosswalked at high confidence (flows cover 17 of 1,741 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.

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 Technology Maturation Initiatives — no program-specific GAO finding for this line is in the ingested data. See the DOD oversight record.

No research dossier for this program — dossiers cover 50 of 1,741 programs, the largest fully J-book-detailed lines by FY2026 requested dollars. why no dossier here? →

Primary Sources