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Fiscal Receipts

Marine Aviation Demonstration/Validation

NRDT&EPartial Reconciliation0604295M
What it is
Marine Aviation Demonstration/Validation — a research & development program run by Navy.
What changed
-$16.9M FY25→26
Who gets it
No award linkage at high confidence.

Budget Figures

FY24 Actuals
$0
FY25 Total
$55.8M
FY26 Request
$38.9M
FY25→26 Change
-$16.9M

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
FY25: $55.8MFY26: $38.9MFY25FY26
FY25
$55.8M
FY26
$38.9M
Decade view — each figure cites its own President's Budget edition
FY2025 enacted — PB2026 editionFY2025 request — PB2025 editionFY2026 request — PB2026 editionFY25FY26

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

SeriesFY25FY26
Enacted$55.8M
Request$62.3M$38.9M

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 Vertical Takeoff and Landing Development

USMC VTOL Development portfolio addresses vertical lift capability requirements that are feasible and affordable. This element supports Marine Corps Force Design and Marine Corps Aviation's Project Eagle initiative. This portfolio facilitates developmental and operational prototyping and demonstration of capabilities supporting Logistics/Aviation Sustainment, Future Attack/Strike, Assault Support, and Autonomy. Project activities are closely aligned with the OSD-sponsored vertical lift initiatives and will look to leverage any aspects of Joint Service programs (e.g., Future Long Range Assault Aircraft, unmanned, air launched effects) that may benefit the Marine Corps through accelerated development and/or reduced life cycle costs. The VTOL Development portfolio serves as a force multiplier, supporting development, maturation, experimentation and evaluation of enhanced performance qualities (e.g., agility, endurance, reliability, lift capacity, survivability), technically relevant modular kinetic/non-kinetic payloads, and superior warfighter-machine interface (e.g., autonomy), enhancing warfighter lethality. This project increases the MAGTF's lethality through its long-range fires, Logistics/Aviation Sustainment, Future Attack/Strike, and Assault Support efforts. Specific projects include the Contested Logistics focused Aerial Logistics Connector (ALC). Project activities directly support Force Design and Project Eagle, enable the Stand-in Force (SiF), and facilitate Expeditionary Advanced Basing Operations (EABO), and Littoral Operations in a Contested Environment (LOCE) through the development of manned and unmanned capabilities that enhance warfighter survivability and lethality.

Mission Future Capabilities Transition

The Future Capability Transition (FCT) portfolio implements a capabilities-based acquisition approach focused on lethality, enhancing Marine Corps Aviation's interoperability and effectivity in joint kill webs. FCT accelerates the transition of Science and Technology (S&T) efforts into lethal Warfighter capabilities, which includes OSD R&E Defense Innovation Acceleration (DIA) and OSD R&E Rapid Defense Experiment Reserve (RDER) projects. FCT supports the execution of Force Design by ensuring both legacy and future platforms influence S&T early enough to inform design and acquisition decisions that avoid duplicative design and engineering, reduce life-cycle costs and expedite delivery of enhanced lethality capabilities to Marine Aviation. This PE includes enduring VMX-1 RDT&E support along with support of Fleet evaluations and demonstration.

Mission (U)MARINE AVIATION DEMONSTRATION/VALIDATION

Marine Aviation Demonstration/Validation supports the development of Marine Aviation's future capability concepts as part of Marine Corps Force Design and Marine Corps Aviation's Project Eagle, progressing these concepts through development, demonstration and ultimately transition into fieldable capabilities This Program Element (PE) funds development of United States Marine Corps (USMC) Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) capabilities, including manned and unmanned air vehicles, and associated and requisite capabilities. Through development and prototyping, this PE matures and/or rapidly inserts industry and government technologies into lethality gaps, enabling a cohesive, warfighter-centric approach towards a future lethality-based portfolio for Marine Aviation. JUSTIFICATION FOR BUDGET ACTIVITY: This program is funded under ADVANCED COMPONENT DEVELOPMENT AND PROTOTYPES because it includes all efforts necessary to evaluate integrated technologies, and representative models or prototype systems in a high fidelity and realistic operating environment.

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, NavyNFY25 Enacted$55.8M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, NavyNFY25 Total$55.8M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, NavyNFY26 Disc. Request$38.9M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, NavyNFY26 Total$38.9M

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

ProjectAll Prior YearsFY24 ActualsFY25 TotalFY26 BaseFY26 Request
3752: Future Capabilities Transition$0$0$5.00M$4.98M$4.98M
Program Element$0$0$55.8M$38.9M$38.9M
3751: Vertical Takeoff and Landing Development$0$0$50.8M$33.9M$33.9M

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? →