# Project 0344 — Deployable Surveillance Systems

**Program element:** 0204311N — Integrated Surveillance System  
**Project:** 0344  
**Component:** U.S. Navy  
**Appropriation:** 1319 — RDT&E, Navy  
**Budget Activity:** 7 — Operational System Development  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0204311N/0344  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0204311N

## Summary

Project 0344 — Deployable Surveillance Systems requests $14.5M in FY2027, 20% of the $71.9M requested for program element 0204311N, up 17% on FY2026. 1 R-2A activity decomposes the request. BAH is the largest named R-3 performer at $0.8M, 5.5% of the project's FY2027 R-3 total.

## Funding profile

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 16.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 12.4 |
| FY2027 | Request | 14.5 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 14.3 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 13.6 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 13.7 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 14.0 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0204311N; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## What project 0344 buys

The Deployable Surveillance Systems (DSS) project (0344), complementing the Fixed Surveillance System (FSS) and Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System (SURTASS), provides flexible and responsive wide area surveillance to the Theater Undersea Warfare (TUSW) commanders worldwide. DSS will operate as adjunct systems to meet the established FSS and SURTASS missions and to meet additional missions as articulated in the OPNAV Top Level Requirements documents and follow-on Course of Action Analysis (COAA) and as dictated by TUSW commanders evolving and emergent operational requirements. DSS is comprised of the following systems: Deep Water Passive (DWP) and Deep Water Active (DWA). Informed by TUSW Offset operations and the tailored requirements process, the DSS Middle Tier Acquisition (MTA) Rapid Fielding Program focused initially on the DWP increment and associated spiral development updates. Spiral developments to meet the evolving submarine threat will leverage on-going Navy, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and small business research efforts including processing and sensor technology. The follow-on increment is on DWA where FY23-26 includes funds that will provide a rapidly deployable sustained surveillance capability in response to emergent Fleet Undersea Warfare (USW) coverage gaps to include mitigating array outages or platform shortages. FY27 includes funds for DWA that will provide a rapidly deployable sustained surveillance capability in response to emergent Fleet Undersea Warfare (USW) coverage gaps to include mitigating array outages or platform shortages. The FY 2027 cost of the DSS Middle Tier of Acquisition effort is $15.120 million, including RDT&E and procurement of prototype units.

**R-3 lines of work:** Product Development; Support; Test and Evaluation; Management Services.

## Named R-3 performers

| Performer | $M | Share of this project's FY2027 R-3 total |
|---|---|---|
| BAH | 0.8 | 5.5% |
| NIWC PAC | 0.3 | 2.2% |
| OPTEVFOR | 0.2 | 1.2% |

> Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations. Shares need not reach 100% — unnamed and government work is in the denominator.

## Activities (R-2A) — 1

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deployable Surveillance Systems (DSS) Deep Water Active (DWA) | 16.3 | 12.4 | 14.5 | +17% | — |

> Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan. In the request year they partition this project exactly; in earlier years they can under-cover it.

### Deployable Surveillance Systems (DSS) Deep Water Active (DWA)

**FY2027 planned work.** - Design and Fabricate EDM cluster - Commence and Complete Engineering Development Model (EDM) Developmental Testing (DT)

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Increase of $2.135M is the result of increased costs for purchase of Engineering Developemnt Model (EDM) in FY27.

**FY2026 plans — current year.** - Refurbish one (1) EDM cluster - Commence and Complete EDM DT

## What is NOT on this page

Congressional marks, the R-2 mission description and acquisition strategy, the industry vs government split of the whole request, and related program elements are recorded at **program-element** grain — an NDAA mark lands on a PE, never on a project. They are at https://hitchintel.com/programs/0204311N.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Navy RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0204311N project 0344 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0204311N")`.

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