Despite the U.S. federal government not having yet passed a full-year defense appropriation for fiscal year 2024, the Navy has ironed out its request for FY 2025, including a sizable amount for its contribution to the Department of Defense’s Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control initiative, DefenseScoop reports.
The service branch wants nearly $140 million for 2025 activities of its Project Overmatch program and $717 million for the next five years, through the future years defense program, or FYDP.
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CJADC2 is an overarching mission to unify and standardize communications throughout all DOD components and with allied forces. Through an interconnected mesh of sensors, shooters, platforms and personnel, the Pentagon hopes to maintain a joint tactical network.
Overmatch, the Navy’s slice of the CJADC2 pie, is primarily software-focused. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti described how the “modern software pipelines” erected through the project are designed to open up a range of inputs and outputs to disseminate data.
“This initiative is an effort to transmit any data over any network and is the connective tissue between today’s fleet and tomorrow’s emerging hybrid fleet” of manned and unmanned systems, Franchetti remarked at a recent conference.
Reportedly, the Navy has recently completed software updates and reconfigurations on ships through digital means. Navy leaders say this capability took a lot of sweat and effort and has only really come through in the last year and a half, when Carrier Strike Group 1, including flagship USS Carl Vinson, served as guinea pigs. Carrier Strike Group 4 and Group 15 are up next, with sights set on the entire rest of the fleet.
Fiscal year 2023 saw $226 million spent on Project Overmatch. The $192 million request for FY 2024 is still technically pending.
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