What project 1427 buys
The Department's submission reflects the results of a deep dive into Fleet Training Wholeness (FTW) and how to provide a means for Strike Group Training in a contested environment, in accordance with Chief of Naval Operations guidance. This analysis determined the most cost-effective means to provide this training is via a combination of Live, Virtual, Constructive (LVC) capabilities, which are essential for building a force that has overmatch. LVC capabilities leverage combat system product line architecture components and engineering best practices for iterative development. The deep dive identified that there is no other cost-effective way to train our ready warfighters for a contested environment. The foundation for LVC has already been established and will continue to execute the investment strategy to provide initial underway LVC capability to train Strike Group(s) in an environment that they expect to fight in, ensuring they are fit to fight and win. The development, integration and testing of LVC's, along with ensuring interoperability with surface and air communities, will be accomplished across Integrated Warfare Systems (IWS), and Navy Continuous Training Environment (NCTE). Surface Tactical Team Trainer (STTT) develops modifications during sustainment of Battle Force Tactical Training (BFTT) system and modernization into the Advanced Training Domain (ATD). Both BFTT and ATD are the core systems that are used to integrate weapon system elements, and combat system components to create the Total Ship Training Capability (TSTC). BFTT and ATD continue to integrate and update, as new tactical capabilities are being introduced, to enable crew operator proficiency training for basic and sustainment level training events, through distributed strike group certification fleet synthetic training (FST) events and including Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMPTUEX) FST underway LVC events. Continued development is required to integrate new capabilities and interfaces to provide training for AEGIS and Ships Self Defense System (SSDS) combat system capability upgrades, and to address the Fleet's LVC FTW initiative.
- Product Development
- Test and Evaluation
- Management Services
Project 1427 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 71.1 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 77.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 40.2 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 51.6 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 44.8 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 30.6 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 31.2 |
3 accomplishments / planned programs
The R-2A exhibit — the only level of the budget that describes work that has not happened yet. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only, no five-year plan. 2 of them describe FY2027 work in enough detail to have their own page; the rest are shown here in full. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
Continue to conduct systems engineering and development activities to integrate Surface Training Program (STP) (formerly Surface Training Advanced Virtual Environment (STAVE)) high fidelity simulations and the Advanced Training Domain (ATD) Live, Virtual and Constructive (LVC) Training Capability within the Integrated Combat System (ICS)…
Read the FY2027 plan →Continue development of updates to integrated combat system data collection and After-Action review/Debrief also known as Data Collection and Debrief (DCD) products also known as Data Collection and Debrief (DCD) for Aegis Baseline 9 and follow that are aligned to tactical improvements that will provide an effective means for instructors…
Read the FY2027 plan →FY2027 planned work Continue development, integration and testing ATD with AEGIS and SSDS to continue alignment with evolving combat system builds. Continue development and integration of ATD to incorporate training capabilities to support AEGIS and SSDS tactical capability updates. Continue development and delivering threat database updates to enable ships crews to train to relevant near-peer threats.
FY2026 to FY2027 change The decrease of $1.594M from FY26 to FY27 due to legacy ATD builds begin moving from active development into sustainment.
FY2026 plans — current year Continue development, integration and testing ATD with AEGIS and SSDS to continue alignment with evolving combat system builds. Continue development and integration of ATD to incorporate training capabilities to support AEGIS and SSDS tactical capability updates. Continue development and delivering threat database updates to enable ships crews to train to relevant near-peer threats. Complete the development of Surface LVC Position Reporting (SLPR) capability for BFTT.
Named performers on project 1427
Performers named in the R-3 exhibit under this project. Share is of the project's whole FY2027 R-3 total — the same denominator the program-element split uses, so the two read on one scale and will not sum to 100% when unnamed or government work is in the mix. Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations.