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Other Helo Development
Budget figures
No FY2026 R-1/P-1 request line for this program element. The FY2026 President's Budget request workbook carries no FY2026 line for it; its last workbook figure is FY2024. The PB2026 J-book detail below does carry an FY2026 row for this line, recorded as zero. A workbook blank and a documented zero are different records, and this page shows both. An absent line is not by itself an ending — PB2026 renumbered program elements at scale across the services and defense agencies, so this work may continue under a different number. No successor is linked for this line: this site's program-lineage layer holds no keyed edge pointing forward from here. That is an absence in this site's lineage layer, not a finding about the program: if the J-book narrative on this page describes a realignment, it is quoted below in the document's own words, and this note does not restate it.
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 | $53.4MR-1 TOA · PB2026 |
| FY25 | $0J-book detail · PB2026 |
| FY26 | $0J-book 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
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 | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Actuals | $0 | – | $53.4M |
| Enacted | – | $0 | $101.2M |
| Request | – | – | $101.2M |
blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.
Asked vs spent: the PB2024 book requested $101.2M for FY2024; the PB2026 book reported $53.4M as actual total obligation authority — $47.8M below the request. 53.4 − 101.2 = -47.8 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 — Other Helicopter Development
This Program Element includes funding for the development of USMC Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) Family of Systems (FoS) capability. VTOL FoS is a USMC initiative to address vertical lift capability requirements and determine feasible and affordable solutions in support of the Warfighter. This PE will include development and prototype efforts developed to progress high-risk technology areas in support of future Marine capabilities.
Mission — Attack and Utility Replacement Aircraft
USMC Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) Family of Systems (FoS) is a United States Marine Corps (USMC) Future Vertical Lift (FVL) initiative addressing vertical lift capability requirements that are feasible and affordable in support of the USMC Warfighter. This is a supporting element of the USMC's Force Design 2030 guidance. USMC VTOL FoS will facilitate developmental and operational prototyping and demonstration of capabilities in alignment with co-developed mission focused areas supporting Assault/Support, Attack/Strike, and Aviation Sustainment. USMC VTOL FoS will continue the transition of science and technology efforts into meaningful Warfighter capability, which includes OSD Joint Capability Technology Demonstration (JCTD) and Rapid Defense Experiment Reserve (RDER) projects such as Long Range Attack Missile (LRAM) and Penetrating Affordable Autonomous Collaborative Killer- Portfolio (PAACK-P). The USMC VTOL FoS is closely aligned with the OSD-sponsored FVL FoS initiative and will look to leverage any aspects of the Joint Service programs that may benefit the USMC through accelerated development and/or reduced life cycle costs. USMC VTOL FoS will be a force multiplier with superior performance, payload, survivability, agility, endurance, and reliability that enables warfighters to win in a future dynamic battlespace. USMC VTOL FoS will increase the Marine Air Ground Task Force's (MAGTF) capacity for long-range fires, Assault/Support, Attack/Strike, and Aviation Sustainment through the development of capabilities such as a logistics connector. This directly supports and enables Force Design 2030 by enabling the support of the Stand-in Force (SiF), Expeditionary Advanced Basing Operations (EABO), and Littoral Operations in a Contested Environment (LOCE). USMC VTOL FoS will utilize Doctrine, Organization, Training, Material, Leadership and Education, Personnel, and Facilities and Policy (DOTmLPF-P) analyses that will include all facets of a program with particular focus on life-cycle cost reductions through common processes, support equipment, logistic support and component commonality utilizing non-materiel solutions, such as maintenance strategies, training solutions, and infrastructure requirements. Air vehicle capabilities will include primary mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, and structural components such as drivetrain, generators, landing gear, hydraulics, controls, seats, etc. The mission subsystems will include all on and off-board components with embedded control software for those components that provide all mission functionality, cockpit displays, cockpit hardware subsystem controllers and interfaces. The architecture will include the fundamental organization of the complete system, the processing method/component(s), the platform software, the operating environment, and the on-aircraft infrastructure to facilitate integration of all subsystems and platform. JUSTIFICATION FOR BUDGET ACTIVITY: This program element is funded for Advanced Component Development & Prototype activities, including conducting prototyping and system demonstration tasks aimed at validating requirements.
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 | $53.4M |
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 | $53.4M | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| 3406: Attack and Utility Replacement Aircraft | $0 | $53.4M | $0 | $0 | $0 |
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 Other Helo Development. 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 · J351
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2026_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2024 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J330
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 · K333
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