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High Energy Laser Advanced Component Development & Prototype
Budget figures
$5.59M discretionary + $22.0M one-time reconciliation. Discretionary change vs FY2025 enacted: +90.7%.
Two official figures, one label— reconciled below
Fiscal Receipts uses P-1/R-1 workbook total obligation authority (TOA) as the headline figure sitewide. The workbook TOA includes budget rows that the R-2/P-40 J-book program line excludes — advance procurement in an ordinary year, and in FY2026 the one-time reconciliation appropriation as well. Each row below names the one it is. How the two bases relate →
FY26 Request · $27.6M TOA − $5.59M J-book line = 22.0M (27.6 − 5.6 = 22.0) — $22.0M of one-time FY2026 reconciliation money accounts for this gap — not advance procurement
Figures in the sentence are rounded for reading; the parenthesised arithmetic is the same subtraction in USD millions, at the precision where it closes.
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 | $2.93MR-1 TOA · PB2026 |
| FY26 | $27.6MR-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
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 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|
| Enacted | $2.93M | |
| Request | $2.93M | $27.6M |
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 — High Energy Laser Advanced Component Development & Prototype
This program is executed via the Joint Directed Energy Transition Office (JDETO) in alignment with the Department of Defense Directed Energy Roadmap, as well as other strategic guidance. Section 219 of the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act designated a senior official for directed energy and redesignated a legacy office as the JDETO with reporting to the senior official. Currently, the Principal Director for Directed Energy serves as this senior official and updates the Department of Defense Directed Energy Roadmap on an annual basis. The goal of this program, in turn, is to support the Department’s initiatives in directed energy to build a sustainable and long-term advantage, in addition to a resilient joint force and defense ecosystem. This program funds advanced component development and prototypes in directed energy aimed at reducing the technology risk, engineering integration, and life-cycle costs associated with directed energy weapon systems. These efforts inform requirements to develop functional and allocated baselines of end-item system configurations. In practice, directed energy weapon systems have many potential advantages, including speed-of-light time-to-target, high precision, low incremental cost per kill, and a magazine that is recharged through on-board, fuel-based power and thermal management systems that reduce logistics requirements in contrast to stocks of munitions or warheads. As a result, directed energy weapon systems have the potential to perform a wide variety of military missions. Activities conducted under this program will ultimately enable the demonstration of military utility for mission areas across the Department of Defense.
Mission — High Energy Tech Maturation
This project is part of an overall Department of Defense strategy in Joint directed energy technology maturation and utility. Efforts within this project will focus on enabling next-generation directed energy weapons that engage threats at longer ranges with shorter engagement timelines in adverse environments with improved size, weight, and power requirements. These efforts complement, and will be closely coordinated with, other Department efforts directed at specific Service and Agency missions. This project builds upon other investments in directed energy technology maturation and utility by the Services and Agencies to harmonize Department efforts and eliminate duplication. As a result, efforts in this project will transition directed-energy technology to the Services and Agencies at a high enough technical readiness level for direct insertion into directed energy weapon systems. This project is executed via a rebranded technical program, a new technical program, and a new initiative within the JDETO. The rebranded technical program is the Directed Energy Tech Maturation Program, which enables (1) advanced prototypes in support of demonstrating mission-driven lethality and survivability and (2) test and evaluation in a relevant field environment with Joint-international participation. The new technical program is the Directed Energy Tech Utility Program, which enables (3) studies, analyses, and evaluations in mission-driven lethality and survivability that supports directed energy military utility assessments and (4) experimentation in an operationally relevant environment with Joint-international participation. Note that (1)-(4) are in alignment with the near-, mid-, and long-term goals of Department of Defense Directed Energy Roadmap and enable transition. The new initiative is the Joint Laser Weapon System Initiative. This initiative is also in alignment with the near-, mid-, and long-term goals of the Department of Defense Directed Energy Roadmap. Both the Directed Energy Tech Utility Program and the Joint Laser Weapon System Initiative are the result of mandatory funding in FY 2026.
Justification
Accomplishments & Planned Programs (3)
Directed Energy Advanced Component Development & Prototypes (FY 2025) to Directed Energy Tech Maturation Program (Starting FY 2026)
The Directed Energy Tech Maturation Program enables (1) advanced prototypes in support of demonstrating mission-driven lethality and survivability and (2) test and evaluation in a relevant field environment with Joint-international participation. Note that (1) and (2) are in alignment with the near-, mid-, and long-term goals of Department of Defense Directed Energy Roadmap.
Directed Energy Tech Utility Program
The Directed Energy Tech Utility Program enables (1) studies, analyses, and evaluations in mission-driven lethality and survivability that supports directed energy military utility assessments and (2) experimentation in an operationally relevant environment with Joint-international participation. Note that (1) and (2) are in alignment with the near-, mid-, and long-term goals of Department of Defense Directed Energy Roadmap.
Joint Laser Weapon System Initiative
The Joint Laser Weapon System is being developed by the Army and Navy in support of counter cruise missile missions. The JDETO is executing an initiative in support of this Joint program. The initiative enables Joint oversight and is in alignment with the near-, mid-, and long-term goals of Department of Defense Directed Energy Roadmap.
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, Defense-Wide | OSD | FY25 Enacted | $2.93M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide | OSD | FY25 Total | $2.93M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide | OSD | FY26 Disc. Request | $5.59M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide | OSD | FY26 Reconciliation | $22.0M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide | OSD | FY26 Total | $27.6M |
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 | $2.93M | $5.59M | $5.59M |
| 921: High Energy Tech Maturation | $0 | $0 | $2.93M | $5.59M | $5.59M |
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
7 mentions from the Senate LDA disclosure database.
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2026 (HR 4016/S 2572); provisions regarding R&D - Navy, Air Force, Space…
Issues related to energy appropriations, including fossil, nuclear, renewables, grid, and other energy-related items.…
Fiscal Year 2024 Department of Defense Authorization bill, Issues related to the implemenation of TRANSCOM's GHC…
Fiscal Year 2024 Department of Defense Authorization bill, Issues related to the implemenation of TRANSCOM's GHC…
Fiscal Year 2024 Department of Defense Authorization bill, Issues related to the implemenation of TRANSCOM's GHC…
Fiscal Year 2024 Department of Defense Authorization bill, Issues related to the implemenation of TRANSCOM's GHC…
S (not yet introduced)/HR 8774 - Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2025 including issues related to aircraft…
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 High Energy Laser Advanced Component Development & Prototype. 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 · M979
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2026_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2025 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · L955
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.