What project 1396 buys
This Focus Area (FA) addresses the design, fabrication, integration, and operation of ground and sea naval warfare platforms, sensors, weapons, networks, and countermeasures to maximize their operational availability and effectiveness. Research efforts regarding all aspects of platform performance, platform survivability in support of future platform-building programs, platform autonomy, autonomous systems, and control for naval systems are included in this R-2 Activity.
Project 1396 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 | 20.8 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 15.6 |
| FY2027 | Request | 20.2 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 21.4 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 23.6 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 23.0 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 22.4 |
5 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. 1 of them describes FY2027 work in enough detail to have its own page; the rest are shown here in full. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
- Complete research efforts related to Submarine Detectability - Continue efforts in Engineered Materials (morphing structures, composite structures and Metamaterials) for control of wave propagation in materials and fluid structure interactions - Continue Novel Propulsion Physics efforts investigating next generation all-domain…
Read the FY2027 plan →FY2027 planned work - Continue research related to Digital Engineering, Naval Engineering (a National Naval Responsibility area) and Platform Design to include effects of hydromechanics, propulsion, and fluid-structure interactions on system performance - Continue research in Platform Signature Modeling Sciences to include Structural Acoustics, Underwater Electromagnetic Signatures, Electromagnetic Signatures, Submarine Detectability, and Undersea Platform Susceptibility. - Continue research efforts in the Digital Decision Metrics for Naval Platform Design. - Continue Uncrewed Surface Vessel Design Science efforts specifically targeting fundamental sciences for effective multi-fidelity simulations of complex…
FY2026 to FY2027 change No significant changes.
FY2026 plans — current year - Complete efforts in Adaptive Controls - Complete research in Wave Transport in Complex Media - Complete research efforts associated with Digital Data Science in Conditions Based Maintenance, Digital Threads, and Digital Twins. - Complete research in Non-Acoustic Signatures Science for Advanced Naval Platforms. - Complete research efforts related to System Complexity and Resilience for Naval Platforms and Systems focusing on morphing structures, composite structures and engineered materials (metamaterials). - Continue research related to Digital Engineering, Naval Engineering (a National Naval Responsibility area) and Platform Design to include effects of hydromechanics, propulsion, and…
FY2027 planned work - Continue efforts in Vessel Systems Autonomy performing scientific research to support the unique challenges of uncrewed surface platforms in complex hostile future seas. - Continue efforts in Artificial Intelligent Large Language Model systems trained with Naval Engineering domain specific knowledge. - Continue efforts in Dynamic Bonding for dynamic and controllable naval architectures - Initiate efforts in Chiplet Ecosystem Co-Design for advanced autonomous system
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding decrease from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to reduced efforts in Vessel Systems Autonomy performing scientific research to support the unique challenges of uncrewed surface platforms in complex hostile future seas.
FY2026 plans — current year - Complete efforts in basic research supporting Adaptive Systems controls aimed at providing advanced automation to crewed platform Hull, Mechanical, and Electrical systems. - Continue efforts in Vessel Systems Autonomy performing scientific research to support the unique challenges of uncrewed surface platforms in complex hostile future seas. - Continue efforts in Artificial Intelligent Large Language Model systems trained with Naval Engineering domain specific knowledge. - Initiate efforts in Dynamic Bonding for dynamic and controllable naval architectures