What project 1355 buys
The Propulsion and Power (P&P) Component Improvement Program (CIP) provides the only source of critical design and development engineering support to resolve safety, reliability and maintainability deficiencies of in-service Navy and Marine Corps aircraft propulsion systems. The highest priority issues P&P CIP addresses concern safety-of-flight deficiencies, which account for approximately 80% of P&P CIP efforts. The program also corrects service-revealed deficiencies, improves Operational Readiness and Reliability and Maintainability, and reduces platform Life Cycle Cost. Budgets are allocated across platform-specific teams and multi-platform product support teams based upon long term strategies to achieve safety and affordable readiness goals; the R-3 exhibit details annual portions of those long-term strategies. P&P CIP tasks have reduced the rate of in-flight aborts, safety incidents, non-mission capable rates, scheduled and unscheduled engine removals, maintenance work hours, and overall cost of ownership. This is accomplished through the maintenance and validation of specification performance, testing to qualify engineering changes, verifying life limits, and improving the inherent reliability of the propulsion and power systems as an integral part of Reliability Centered Maintenance initiatives. Historically, the missions, tactics, and environmental exposure of military aircraft systems change to meet new threats or operational demands, and often result in unforeseen problems, which if not corrected, can cause critical safety/readiness degradation, such as those experienced during OPERATIONS DESERT SHIELD/DESERT STORM, ENDURING FREEDOM, and IRAQI FREEDOM due to sand erosion. In addition, new problems arise through actual fleet deployment and usage of the aircraft. System development programs, while geared to resolve as many problems as possible before deployment, cannot duplicate actual operations or account for the vast array of environmental and usage variables, particularly when aircraft missions vary from those that the aircraft was designed to perform. Therefore, it has been found that P&P CIP can provide an immediate engineering response to these flight-critical problems and accelerated engine testing can avoid potential problems.
- Product Development
- Support
- Test and Evaluation
- Management Services
Project 1355 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 | 106.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 104.8 |
| FY2027 | Request | 89.9 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 110.9 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 111.8 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 108.7 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 110.6 |
16 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. 4 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.
Perform engineering analysis, design and test efforts to address Service Revealed Deficiencies and safety, readiness and cost and reliability drivers on propulsion and power system components of the F135 engine and STOVL lift system in accordance with F-35 Program Instruction 1540.05 F135 CIP Management Guide for the F135 Propulsion…
Read the FY2027 plan →Perform engineering analysis, design and test efforts to address Service Revealed Deficiencies and safety, readiness and cost drivers on propulsion and power system components for the F414 and F404 turbofan engines including the fan, compressor, combustor, turbines, control and diagnostic systems, static structures, gearboxes, bearings…
Read the FY2027 plan →Perform engineering analysis, design and test efforts to address identified deficiencies and safety readiness and cost and reliability drivers on the T408 propulsion and power system components including the compressor, combustor, turbines, control and diagnostic systems, static structures, gearboxes, bearings, seals, drives, fuel and…
Read the FY2027 plan →Continue projects to provide support to multiple platforms to analyze fleet component removal driver and reliability metrics to focus CIP investments to maximize Readiness and return on investment, improve performance analysis, structural integrity modeling and simulation tools, and developmental test and evaluation facilities and…
Read the FY2027 plan →FY2027 planned work Perform engineering analysis, design and test efforts to address Service Revealed Deficiencies and safety, readiness and cost drivers on the T700 propulsion and power system components including the compressor, combustor, turbines, control and diagnostic systems, static structures, gearboxes, bearings, seals, drives, engine fuel and lubrication systems, auxiliary power and electrical power systems, and main and tail rotor drives systems. Perform analysis, design and testing on projects to improve the compression system and static structures tolerance to sand ingestion and engine build optimization. Perform analysis, modeling design and testing on propulsion system to demonstrate damage…
FY2026 plans — current year Perform engineering analysis, design and test efforts to address Service Revealed Deficiencies and safety, readiness and cost drivers on the T700 propulsion and power system components including the compressor, combustor, turbines, control and diagnostic systems, static structures, gearboxes, bearings, seals, drives, engine fuel and lubrication systems, auxiliary power and electrical power systems, and main and tail rotor drives systems. Perform analysis, design and testing on projects to improve the compression system and static structures tolerance to sand ingestion and engine build optimization. Perform analysis, modeling design and testing on propulsion system to demonstrate damage…
FY2027 planned work Continue projects on T56 Series III engine on the analysis, design and qualification of improvements to address Service Revealed Deficiencies and preform repair development on system components. For the T56 Series IV engine perform analysis, design and qualification work related to address Service Revealed Deficiencies and safety, readiness and cost drivers on system components and execute projects on engine performance standardization, hot section reliability, compressor blade durability and analytical condition inspections of Fleet hardware. Develop, design and test improvements to system components including the compressor, combustor, turbine, controls and diagnostic systems, static…
FY2026 to FY2027 change Increase of $0.950M from FY2026 to FY2027 due to engineering support with fielding of Modern Pump Housing.
FY2026 plans — current year Continue projects on T56 Series III engine on the analysis, design and qualification of improvements to address Service Revealed Deficiencies and preform repair development on system components. For the T56 Series IV engine perform analysis, design and qualification work related to address Service Revealed Deficiencies and safety, readiness and cost drivers on system components and execute projects on engine performance standardization, hot section reliability, compressor blade durability and analytical condition inspections of Fleet hardware. Develop, design and test improvements to system components including the compressor, combustor, turbine, controls and diagnostic systems, static…
FY2027 planned work Perform engineering analysis, design and test efforts to address Service Revealed Deficiencies and safety, readiness and cost and reliability drivers on propulsion and power system components of the CFM56 system including the fan, compressor, combustors, turbines, control and diagnostic systems, static structures, gearboxes, bearings, seals, drives, fuel and lubrication systems, auxiliary power and electrical power systems to improve safety, reliability, maintainability, affordability, and durability.
FY2026 to FY2027 change Increase of $3.650M from FY2026 to FY2027 due to increased planned projects for P-8A.
FY2026 plans — current year Perform engineering analysis, design and test efforts to address Service Revealed Deficiencies and safety, readiness and cost and reliability drivers on propulsion and power system components of the CFM56 system including the fan, compressor, combustors, turbines, control and diagnostic systems, static structures, gearboxes, bearings, seals, drives, fuel and lubrication systems, auxiliary power and electrical power systems to improve safety, reliability, maintainability, affordability, and durability.
FY2027 planned work Perform engineering analysis, design and test efforts to address Service Revealed Deficiencies and Readiness and cost drivers on the J85 and F100 propulsion and power system components including the fan, compressor, combustor, turbines, control and diagnostic systems, static structures, gearboxes, bearings, seals, drives, fuel and lubrication systems, auxiliary power and electrical power systems, augmenter and exhaust systems to improve safety, reliability, maintainability, affordability, durability. Continue joint projects with the USAF to perform analysis, design and testing on projects to validate the life assessment of J85 critical rotating hardware, address parts obsolescence issues…
FY2026 to FY2027 change Increase of $0.450M from FY2026 to FY2027 due to increased amount of planned J85 projects.
FY2026 plans — current year Perform engineering analysis, design and test efforts to address Service Revealed Deficiencies and Readiness and cost drivers on the J85 and F100 propulsion and power system components including the fan, compressor, combustor, turbines, control and diagnostic systems, static structures, gearboxes, bearings, seals, drives, fuel and lubrication systems, auxiliary power and electrical power systems, augmenter and exhaust systems to improve safety, reliability, maintainability, affordability, durability. Continue joint projects with the USAF to perform analysis, design and testing on projects to validate the life assessment of J85 critical rotating hardware, address parts obsolescence issues…
FY2027 planned work Perform engineering analysis, design and test efforts to address Service Revealed Deficiencies and safety, readiness and cost drivers on the AE1107C propulsion and power system components the compressor, combustor, turbines, control and diagnostic systems, static structures, gearboxes, bearings, seals, drives, fuel and lubrication systems, auxiliary power and electrical power systems and prop rotor drive systems to improve safety, reliability, maintainability, affordability, durability and Readiness. Perform analysis, design and testing on projects to mitigate rapid power loss and engine surge, and improve engine durability and operability, perform testing and rig testing and analysis to…
FY2026 to FY2027 change Decrease of $2.979M from FY2026 to FY2027 due to reduced planned projects for V-22.
FY2026 plans — current year Perform engineering analysis, design and test efforts to address Service Revealed Deficiencies and safety, readiness and cost drivers on the AE1107C propulsion and power system components the compressor, combustor, turbines, control and diagnostic systems, static structures, gearboxes, bearings, seals, drives, fuel and lubrication systems, auxiliary power and electrical power systems and prop rotor drive systems to improve safety, reliability, maintainability, affordability, durability and Readiness. Perform analysis, design and testing on projects to mitigate rapid power loss and engine surge, and improve engine durability and operability, perform testing and rig testing and analysis to…
FY2027 planned work Perform engineering analysis, design and test efforts to address Service Revealed Deficiencies and safety, readiness and cost drivers on system components for the 54H60, R391 and NP2000 propeller systems. Develop, design and test 54H60, R391 and NP2000 Propeller system improvements to the control, pitch actuation and hydraulic systems, blades, pumps, housings, seals and static structure to improve safety, reliability, maintainability, affordability, durability and Readiness. Execute efforts on repair and reliability engineering, universal closed loop bench testing, bond joint delamination and perform analysis, design and testing on components to improve Readiness.
FY2026 to FY2027 change Decrease of $1.800M from FY2026 to FY2027 due to reduced amount on planned Props projects.
FY2026 plans — current year Perform engineering analysis, design and test efforts to address Service Revealed Deficiencies and safety, readiness and cost drivers on system components for the 54H60, R391 and NP2000 propeller systems. Develop, design and test 54H60, R391 and NP2000 Propeller system improvements to the control, pitch actuation and hydraulic systems, blades, pumps, housings, seals and static structure to improve safety, reliability, maintainability, affordability, durability and Readiness. Execute efforts on repair and reliability engineering, universal closed loop bench testing, bond joint delamination and perform analysis, design and testing on components to improve Readiness.
FY2027 planned work Perform engineering analysis, design and test efforts to address Service Revealed Deficiencies, safety, readiness and cost drivers on the F405 propulsion and power system components including fan, compressor, combustor, turbines, control and diagnostic systems, static structures, gearboxes, bearings, seals, drives, fuel and lubrication systems, auxiliary power and electrical power systems to improve safety, reliability, maintainability, affordability, durability and Readiness. Perform analysis, design and testing on projects to update rotating engine part lives and mitigation approaches to address propulsion and power system component obsolescence issues and engine performance degradation.
FY2026 to FY2027 change Decrease of $1.200M from FY2026 to FY2027 due to reduced number of planned T-45 projects.
FY2026 plans — current year Perform engineering analysis, design and test efforts to address Service Revealed Deficiencies, safety, readiness and cost drivers on the F405 propulsion and power system components including fan, compressor, combustor, turbines, control and diagnostic systems, static structures, gearboxes, bearings, seals, drives, fuel and lubrication systems, auxiliary power and electrical power systems to improve safety, reliability, maintainability, affordability, durability and Readiness. Perform analysis, design and testing on projects to update rotating engine part lives and mitigation approaches to address propulsion and power system component obsolescence issues and engine performance degradation.
FY2027 planned work Perform engineering analysis, design and test efforts to address Service Revealed Deficiencies and safety, readiness and cost and reliability drivers on the propulsion and power systems for small and medium size Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs) including the RQ-21 Small Tactical Unmanned Aerial System (STUAS) and the MQ-8B and MQ-8C Fire Scout variants. Develop, design and test improvements to system components including the engine components, control and diagnostic systems, static structures, bearings, seals, drives, fuel and lubrication systems, ignition and electrical power systems, exhaust system and the propeller to improve safety, reliability, maintainability, affordability, and…
FY2026 plans — current year Perform engineering analysis, design and test efforts to address Service Revealed Deficiencies and safety, readiness and cost and reliability drivers on the propulsion and power systems for small and medium size Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs) including the RQ-21 Small Tactical Unmanned Aerial System (STUAS) and the MQ-8B and MQ-8C Fire Scout variants. Develop, design and test improvements to system components including the engine components, control and diagnostic systems, static structures, bearings, seals, drives, fuel and lubrication systems, ignition and electrical power systems, exhaust system and the propeller to improve safety, reliability, maintainability, affordability, and…
FY2027 planned work Perform engineering analysis, design and test efforts to address Service Revealed Deficiencies and safety, readiness and cost and reliability drivers on the AE3007 propulsion and power system components including the fan, compressor, combustor, turbines, control and diagnostic systems, static structures, gearboxes, bearings, seals, drives, fuel and lubrication systems, auxiliary power and electrical power systems to improve safety, reliability, maintainability, affordability, and durability.
FY2026 to FY2027 change Decrease of $0.500M from FY2026 to FY2027 due to reduced amount of planned MQ-4C projects.
FY2026 plans — current year Perform engineering analysis, design and test efforts to address Service Revealed Deficiencies and safety, readiness and cost and reliability drivers on the AE3007 propulsion and power system components including the fan, compressor, combustor, turbines, control and diagnostic systems, static structures, gearboxes, bearings, seals, drives, fuel and lubrication systems, auxiliary power and electrical power systems to improve safety, reliability, maintainability, affordability, and durability.
FY2027 planned work Perform engineering analysis, design and test efforts to address Service Revealed Deficiencies and safety, readiness and cost drivers on the F402 propulsion and power system components including the fan, compressor, combustor, turbines, control and diagnostic systems, static structures, gearboxes, bearings, seals, drives, engine fuel and lubrication systems, auxiliary power, electrical power and FOD detection systems. Continue working on risk management plan of supplying critical parts and refinement of life limit determinations and identification of critical parts constraints to improve safety, reliability, maintainability, affordability, durability and Readiness.
FY2026 to FY2027 change Decrease of $2.751M from FY2026 to FY2027 due to F402 engine Program sundown plan
FY2026 plans — current year Perform engineering analysis, design and test efforts to address Service Revealed Deficiencies and safety, readiness and cost drivers on the F402 propulsion and power system components including the fan, compressor, combustor, turbines, control and diagnostic systems, static structures, gearboxes, bearings, seals, drives, engine fuel and lubrication systems, auxiliary power, electrical power and FOD detection systems. Continue working on risk management plan of supplying critical parts and refinement of life limit determinations and identification of critical parts constraints to improve safety, reliability, maintainability, affordability, durability and Readiness.
FY2027 planned work Perform engineering analysis, design and test efforts to address Service Revealed Deficiencies and safety, readiness and cost drivers on the T64 propulsion and power system components including the compressor, combustor, turbines, control and diagnostic systems, static structures, gearboxes, bearings, seals, drives, fuel and lubrication systems, auxiliary power and electrical power systems and air vehicle drive system components to improve safety, reliability, maintainability, affordability, durability and Readiness. Perform analysis, design and testing to develop inspection and repair criteria, optimized depot-level engine build specification procedures, and data reduction program…
FY2026 to FY2027 change Decrease of $2.122M from FY2026 to FY2027 due to T64 engine program sundown plan.
FY2026 plans — current year Perform engineering analysis, design and test efforts to address Service Revealed Deficiencies and safety, readiness and cost drivers on the T64 propulsion and power system components including the compressor, combustor, turbines, control and diagnostic systems, static structures, gearboxes, bearings, seals, drives, fuel and lubrication systems, auxiliary power and electrical power systems and air vehicle drive system components to improve safety, reliability, maintainability, affordability, durability and Readiness. Perform analysis, design and testing to develop inspection and repair criteria, optimized depot-level engine build specification procedures, and data reduction program…
FY2027 planned work Perform engineering analysis, design and test efforts to address Service Revealed Deficiencies and safety, readiness and cost drivers on the T700 propulsion and power system components including the compressor, combustor, turbines, controls, diagnostics, static structures, gearboxes, bearings, seals, drives, fuel and lubrication systems, auxiliary power, electrical power systems and main and tail rotor drives systems. Continue program to demonstrate drive system corrosion prevention coating development and demonstration.
FY2026 plans — current year Perform engineering analysis, design and test efforts to address Service Revealed Deficiencies and safety, readiness and cost drivers on the T700 propulsion and power system components including the compressor, combustor, turbines, controls, diagnostics, static structures, gearboxes, bearings, seals, drives, fuel and lubrication systems, auxiliary power, electrical power systems and main and tail rotor drives systems. Continue program to demonstrate drive system corrosion prevention coating development and demonstration.
Named performers on project 1355
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.