# Project 1396 — Naval Engineering

**Program element:** 0601153N — Defense Research Sciences  
**Project:** 1396  
**Component:** U.S. Navy  
**Appropriation:** 1319 — RDT&E, Navy  
**Budget Activity:** 1 — Basic Research  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601153N/1396  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601153N

## Summary

Project 1396 — Naval Engineering requests $20.2M in FY2027, 3.8% of the $525.4M requested for program element 0601153N, up 29% on FY2026. 5 R-2A activities decompose the request.

## Funding profile

| 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 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0601153N; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## 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.

## Activities (R-2A) — 5

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resilient Naval System Science | 0.0 | 5.6 | 13.5 | +140% | [a3](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601153N/1396/a3) |
| Platform Design and Engineering | 15.8 | 5.0 | 4.8 | −3% | — |
| Integrated Cyber-Physical Systems | 0.0 | 5.0 | 1.8 | −63% | — |
| Sea Warfare and Weapons STEM | 2.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | — |
| Expeditionary Naval Engineering | 2.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | — |

> 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.

### Resilient Naval System Science

- 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…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601153N/1396/a3

### Platform Design and Engineering

**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 systems in complex environments.

**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 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. - Initiate Autonomous Surface Vessel Design Science efforts specifically targeting fundamental sciences for effective multi-fidelity simulations of complex systems in complex environments.

### Integrated Cyber-Physical Systems

**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

## 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/0601153N.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Navy RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0601153N project 1396 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0601153N")`.

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