Articles posted over the last month have provided looks at the requests for Advisory and Assistance Services’ (A&AS) funding in the Department of Defense’s (DOD) budget for fiscal year 2027. Here are links to the article on the overall A&AS budget request, the request broken out for the U.S. Army, the request submitted by the Fourth Estate, and the Air Force’s request. Today’s analysis wraps up the series by summarizing the U.S. Navy’s and U.S. Marine Corps’ A&AS request.

Total Funding Requested

The chart below shows the A&AS funding requested by the Navy in its FY 2027 budget. Unlike the Fourth Estate and the Air Force, the Navy did not separate its request into three major budget categories (i.e., Operations & Maintenance (O&M), Procurement, and Research, Development, Test and Evaluation). Instead, the Navy lumped the budgets for A&AS services under its O&M request only.

The Navy’s requested FY 2027 A&AS funding totals $2.1B and is broken out across four types of services: Management and Professional Support Services, Engineering and Technical Services, Training and Leadership Development, and Studies, Analysis, and Evaluations.

• Funding for Management and Professional Support Services totaled $1.9B in FY 2026, so it will be up about $240M in FY 2027.
• Funding for Engineering and Technical Services totaled $574M in FY 2026. Coming in at $592M in FY 2027, this funding rises $18M.
• Concerning Studies, Analysis, and Evaluations, that funding totaled $173M in FY 2026. In FY 2027, the request totals $167M for a net decrease of $6.0M.
• Lastly, funding for Training and Leadership Development totaled $44M in FY 2026. In FY 2027, the request totals $62M.

Another thing worth noting is that the FY 2027 requested budgets for Management and Professional Support Services and Engineering and Technical Services are still down by sizeable amounts compared to FY 2025. By contrast, the requests for Studies, Analysis, and Evaluations and Training and Leadership Development are up compared to FY 2025, just by relatively small amounts compared to other parts of the Navy’s budget.

Turning to the Marine Corps, its FY 2027 A&AS request totals $1.4B with the details shown below.

Like the Navy, the Corps lumped it’s A&AS services request under O&M instead of breaking it into several buckets. The Corps also requested no funding for contractor provided Training and Leadership Development.

• Funding for Management and Professional Support Services totaled $877M in FY 2026, so it will be up $139M in FY 2027.
• Funding for Engineering and Technical Services totaled $233M in FY 2026. Coming in at $366M in FY 2027, this funding rises $133M.
• As for Studies, Analysis, and Evaluations, that funding totaled $39M in FY 2026. In FY 2027, the request totals $40M for a net increase of only $1.0M.

Funding Request Details - Navy

When it comes to explaining why the FY 2027 A&AS budget request shook out as it did, the Navy had the following to say:

Management and Professional Support Services – The increase in this request is “driven by strengthening … efforts in the Indo-Pacific, specifically Taiwan self-defense capabilities. Resources fund the Joint Training Team, Special Operations Task Force, and Joint Task Force Micronesia, covering travel, supplies, training, and equipment for bilateral engagements and integrated command and control.”

Studies, Analysis, and Evaluations – The decrease here is attributed to the completion of contract awards “supporting the Digital Program Objective Memorandum effort executed by the Naval Information Warfare Center, and aligned to the Navy Analytical Office’s Perform to Plan initiative.” To this the Navy added a complaint: “fewer resources are available to sustain prior analytic rigor.”

Engineering and Technical Services – The increase in this category “advances the Pacific Multi-Domain Training and Experimentation Capability and infrastructure/capability upgrades at the Pacific Missile Range Facility. The funding also “supports complex, integrated training, testing, and experimentation across air, surface, subsurface, space, and cyber domains.”

Training and Leadership Development – Concerning these services, the Navy said the “increase advances Career Training Continuum and Career-Long Learning initiatives across Expeditionary, Aviation, Surface, Submarine, and Information Warfare communities. Funds interactive course ware, VR, and gaming-based content; also supports Executive Leadership Dashboard and Performance to Plan analytics tools.”

Funding Request Details – Marine Corps

Turning to the Marine Corps, it explained the changes in its A&AS request in greater detail than the Navy. Here are some of the comments provided under each service type.

Management and Professional Support Services – This “increase reflects essential contracted services that provide specialized ground maintenance and logistics support to the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Marine Aircraft Wings.” In addition, under Maritime Prepositioning, this increase is for “contractor support to manage equipment readiness for continuity of forward-deployed, rapid response capabilities to reduce reaction time and sustain Marine, Naval and Joint Forces for regional exercises and military operations.” Meanwhile, the Cyberspace Activities “decrease reflects a reduction in Microsoft Premier enterprise configuration support.”

Studies, Analysis, and Evaluations – Changes in this service type are attributed to an increase under Operational Forces that “supports advanced analytics, combat simulations, and quick-turn decision-making tools.” As for the increase in Maritime Prepositioning, it “supports associated components, accessories, tools, and manuals for the Amphibious Combat Vehicle.” Lastly, Base Operating Support will see a “decrease that reflects reductions in master plans, real estate maps, and boundary surveys.

Engineering and Technical Services – An increase in Operational Forces support is for “Marine Corps’ Force Design transformation.” An additional increase for Field Logistics “supports sustainment, engineering, and technical support for mobile targeting systems to include 4 Maritime Targeting Cell-Mobile, 2 Fixed Site and 34 Maritime Targeting Node- Vehicle Kits.” Meanwhile, the decreases occur in Cyberspace Activities, reflecting “a reduction in Microsoft Premier engineering configuration support” and a “reduction in engineering contractor support” under Base Operating Support.

Conclusion

Although A&AS budgets are down overall in both the Navy and Marine Corps, there are areas of growth. Contractors might want to pay attention to both the types of services where budgets are sustained or increasing and the programmatic details provided by the Navy and Marines.