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Fiscal Receipts

Multi-mission Maritime Aircraft (MMA)

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What it is
Multi-mission Maritime Aircraft (MMA) — a research & development program run by Navy.
What changed
+$7.03M FY25→26
Who gets it
No award linkage at high confidence.

Budget Figures

FY24 Actuals
$35.2M
FY25 Total
$34.1M
FY26 Request
$41.1M
FY25→26 Change
$7.03M

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
FY24: $35.2MFY25: $34.1MFY26: $41.1MFY24FY25FY26
FY24
$35.2M
FY25
$34.1M
FY26
$41.1M
Decade view — each figure cites its own President's Budget edition
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 editionFY2024 enacted — PB2025 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 editionFY2025 request — PB2025 editionFY2026 request — PB2026 editionFY15FY26

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

SeriesFY15FY16FY17FY18FY19FY20FY21FY22FY23FY24FY25FY26
Actuals$297.4M$151.5M$62.0M$11.4M$33.0M$20.6M$23.3M$28.8M$43.9M$35.2M
Enacted$156.3M$59.1M$11.8M$34.2M$21.5M$24.1M$27.3M$37.9M$36.0M$34.1M
Request$59.1M$11.8M$37.3M$21.5M$24.4M$27.3M$37.9M$36.0M$39.1M$41.1M

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

Asked vs spent: the PB2023 book requested $37.9M for FY2023; the PB2025 book reports $43.9M actually spent — $5.97M above the request.

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 P-8 Improvements

The P-8A MMA program's Assured Maritime Dominance Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW), Anti-Surface Warfare (ASuW), and Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) activities include a sequence of Rapid Capability Insertions (RCI) and rapid development efforts to respond to evolving threats and adversary capabilities, which will retain cost effectiveness for winning major combat operations. In order to pace the threat, these efforts will incorporate incremental software and/or hardware improvements that increase/exceed the current performance envelope, to include reliability/maintainability improvements, obsolescence, periodic technology insertion, urgent operational needs, correction of deficiencies and flight safety issues to existing sensor capabilities, communications systems, mission systems, airframe and engine component systems, weapons capabilities, training systems and Tactical Operations Center (TOC) /Tacmobile support to build on the P-8A capability baseline. These planned and emergent requirements will be prioritized through either the Navy Integration and interoperability (I&I) aligned Capability Prioritization Process (CPP), P-8A Capability Roadmap and/or through Fleet identification of an Urgent Operational Need. The CPP process is supported by detailed analysis and the maturations of developing technologies. Assured Maritime Dominance activities include principal mission lethality, survivability against kinetic and non-kinetic threats, and capability persistence in high-level threat environments. Rapid Development efforts increase lethality through optimization of kill-chain software systems, employment of LRASM, and other weapon systems and Airborne Weapon Simulator capabilities. RCI4 capabilities include kill-chain/gap analysis, ASW Enhancements, common weapons synchronization, and Airborne Weapon Simulator continuation. RCI5 capabilities increase P-8A survivability through Radio Frequency Counter Measure (RFCM) Self Protection Pod/Advanced Survivability Pod (ASP) Certification, P-8A Survivability Assurance and distributed sensor network improvements.

Mission Multi-Mission Maritime Aircraft (MMA) (P-8A)

The P-8A Multi-mission Maritime Aircraft (MMA) program was initiated in response to the Joint Requirements Oversight Council (JROC) validated Mission Needs Statement, "Broad Area Maritime and Littoral Armed Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance" and the requirements for the program are defined in the P-8A Capability Production Document #791-88-09, validated and approved on 22 June 2009. A successful Critical Design Review was completed in June 2007. In August 2007 the Design Readiness Review was conducted and resulted in approval to obligate funding for the fabrication of the Stage II flight test aircraft. The first flight of P-8A occurred on 25 Apr 2009. Milestone C was successfully completed on 11 August 2010. The program completed Initial Operational Test and Evaluation (IOT&E) in March 2013 and achieved Initial Operational Capability (IOC) in November 2013. The Acquisition Decision Memorandum approved entry into Full Rate Production on January 3, 2014. During the initial Systems Development and Demonstration (SDD) phase (PE 0605500N PU 2696), which completed in 2020, the program performed the system detailed design, developed and produced Systems Integration Labs, developed and built ground and flight test articles, and conducted ground and flight tests to successfully achieve program milestones. Ground testing included the conduct of static testing, fatigue testing and Live Fire Test and Evaluation. Additionally, six (6) flight test aircraft were built, and grouped into two stages based on which phase of the test program the aircraft supported. SDD Stage I flight test aircraft (FY06/Qty-3) supported Integrated Test and Evaluation (IT&E). SDD Stage II flight test aircraft (FY09/Qty-3) supported the completion of IT&E and IOT&E after being updated to the production configuration. The SDD contract also included the development and initial building of training devices to support IOT&E, all activities necessary to facilitate an efficient transition of the fleet to achieve the P-8A IOC in CY13, and the engineering and verification of corrected deficiencies identified in testing and Fleet operational use. P-8A entered Production and Deployment phase in the 4th quarter of FY10 and entered Full Rate Production in 2nd quarter of FY14. P-8A MMA program follow-on SDD activities (PU 3368) include Assured Maritime Dominance Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW), Anti-Surface Warfare (ASuW), and Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) activities implemented as a sequence of Rapid Capability Insertions (RCI) and rapid development efforts to respond to evolving threats and adversary capabilities, which will retain cost effectiveness for winning major combat operations. In order to pace the threat, these efforts will incorporate incremental software and/or hardware improvements that increase/exceed the current performance envelope, to include reliability/maintainability improvements, obsolescence, periodic technology insertion, urgent operational needs, correction of deficiencies and flight safety issues to existing sensor capabilities, communications systems, mission systems, airframe and engine component systems, weapons capabilities, training systems and Tactical Operations Center (TOC) /Tacmobile support to build on the initial P-8A SDD (PU 2696) capability baseline. These planned and emergent requirements will be prioritized through either the Navy Integration and interoperability (I&I) aligned Capability Prioritization Process (CPP), P-8A Tier 3 Capability Roadmap and/or through Fleet identification of an Urgent Operational Need. The CPP process is supported by detailed analysis and the maturations of developing technologies. Budget Activity 5. JUSTIFICATION FOR BUDGET ACTIVITY: This program is funded under SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT AND DEMONSTRATION because it includes those projects that have passed Milestone B approval and are conducting engineering and manufacturing development tasks aimed at meeting validated requirement prior to full-rate production decision.

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, NavyNFY24 Actuals$35.2M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, NavyNFY25 Enacted$34.1M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, NavyNFY25 Total$34.1M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, NavyNFY26 Disc. Request$41.1M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, NavyNFY26 Total$41.1M

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

ProjectAll Prior YearsFY24 ActualsFY25 TotalFY26 BaseFY26 Request
3368: P-8 Improvements$148.6M$35.2M$34.1M$41.1M$41.1M
Program Element$148.6M$35.2M$34.1M$41.1M$41.1M

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? →