The U.S. Navy’s fiscal 2025 budget request for Project Overmatch, its effort to digitally link people, ships, and sensors over vast distances, is classified uncontrolled information, with spending details not disclosed. The Navy sought at least $192 million in FY24 and secured $226 million in FY23.
Project Overmatch is the Navy’s contribution to the Defense Department’s multibillion-dollar connectivity campaign known as Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control. Rear Adm. Ben Reynolds indicated that funding would be applied to software development and hardware for ships and fleets.
At least three carrier strike groups already have Project Overmatch capabilities aboard, with plans to rollout to additional groups and maritime operation centers ahead of an FY25 mandate.
Project Overmatch’s implementation will initially focus on the Indo-Pacific region, with trials already underway with the Carl Vinson carrier strike group.
