What project 0000 buys
This project provides the foundational environmental knowledge for undersea, surface and air-based warfighting technologies and effective operations anywhere on the globe, as well as the operation of unattended sensors and unmanned air, surface and underwater vehicles. This project includes the Navy contribution to broader federal research such as the National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP), efforts aimed at understanding and predicting the impacts of underwater sound on Marine species, and efforts to improve extended range environmental prediction through coupled Earth system models. Major efforts of this project are devoted to gaining real-time knowledge of the Battlespace Environment (BSE), understanding the variability between processes in the world's ocean, atmosphere and coastal regions, and providing the on-scene commander with the capability to exploit the environment to tactical, operational, and strategic advantage. Research results are transitioned to the Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center and to the Naval Oceanographic Office where they are used to provide timely information about the natural environment for all fleet operations. Efforts include ocean and atmospheric analysis and prediction for real-time description of the operational environment from near space to the sub-seafloor, shallow water acoustics, sensors for undersea surveillance and weapon systems, and influences of the natural environment on Mine Countermeasures, Naval Mining, Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW), Information Warfare, and Naval Special Warfare systems.
Project 0000 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 | 78.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 81.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 64.7 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 67.9 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 69.6 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 68.6 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 69.4 |
6 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 the development of new decision aids that take weather and extremes into account for improved ship routing, fuel efficiency, and bases and infrastructure protection and optimization. - Continue collection of field observations; quality control and process-oriented analyses; and development of data assimilation and modeling…
Read the FY2027 plan →- Continue Atlantis II modeling and data analysis efforts that focus on improved understanding of the complex relationships amongst a large number of ocean processes and variables that include sound propagation, ambient sound, ocean and atmosphere physical processes, and biological communities. The objectives to achieve include…
Read the FY2027 plan →FY2027 planned work - Continue National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP) to focus topics of interest to multiple federal agencies that share ocean-related missions and are effectively investigated via partnerships. Topics include ocean, atmosphere, and coastal dynamical process studies; development of sensors, communications, and data acquisition approaches and methodologies for ocean research; modernization of ocean research and observation infrastructure; and studies of soundscapes in the ocean related to marine mammal research. - Continue Oceanographic Observations and Modeling studies focused on model verification, constraint of boundary conditions and fluxes of mass, heat and momentum across them…
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding decrease from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due reduced research in hurricane coastal impact forecasting, including space-based remote sensing for multi-dimensional digital elevation models, suitable to initialize and ground-truth forecasts.
FY2026 plans — current year - Continue National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP) to focus topics of interest to multiple federal agencies that share ocean-related missions and are effectively investigated via partnerships. Topics include ocean, atmosphere, and coastal dynamical process studies; development of sensors, communications, and data acquisition approaches and methodologies for ocean research; modernization of ocean research and observation infrastructure; and studies of soundscapes in the ocean related to marine mammal research. - Continue Oceanographic Observations and Modeling studies focused on model verification, constraint of boundary conditions and fluxes of mass, heat and momentum across them…
FY2027 planned work -Continue Satellite Based Sensing to improve the world's global bathymetry map from satellite data. Specific new efforts will utilize ICESAT for shoreline digital elevation models and connect with new investigations and methods extending altimetry-based seabed models up onto the continental shelves. -Continue Satellite Based Sensing to improve the world's global bathymetry map from satellite data. Specific new efforts will utilize ICESAT for shoreline digital elevation models and connect with new investigations and methods extending altimetry-based seabed models up onto the continental shelves. Continue efforts focused on determining bathymetry from satellite based-remote sensing for…
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding decrease from FY 2026 to FY 2027 due to reduced research in inner Shelf Processes studies of non-hydrostatic modeling of inner shelf processes.
FY2026 plans — current year - Continue Satellite Based Sensing to improve the world's global bathymetry map from satellite data. Specific new efforts will utilize ICESAT for shoreline digital elevation models and connect with new investigations and methods extending altimetry-based seabed models up onto the continental shelves. - Continue efforts focused on determining bathymetry from satellite based-remote sensing for shallow muddy and turbid waters. - Continue research into exploiting various geoscience and optical environmental phenomena in the littoral ocean investigate and develop a novel remote sensing technology by exploring advanced machine learning methods for multi- spectral (optical and passive microwave)…
FY2027 planned work - Continue efforts into investigating new techniques and capabilities to improve our ability to handle large amounts of ocean data (including SWOT altimetry data) available in the near future for assimilation into analysis and forecast systems. This includes translating the data assimilation problem to wavelet space in order to accurately correct the model background while largely retaining the realistic fractal dynamics generated by the model physics and the sparsification of covariance matrices. - Continue to model/simulate ocean current variability, including the deep ocean boundary providing improved ocean environmental information for Seabed Warfare. Model / simulate high-resolution…
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding decrease from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to reduced research in Earth System Prediction Models development and Data Assimilation development to coupled modeling approaches including air-ice-wave- ocean-land models.
FY2026 plans — current year - Continue efforts into investigating new techniques and capabilities to improve our ability to handle large amounts of ocean data (including SWOT altimetry data) available in the near future for assimilation into analysis and forecast systems. This includes translating the data assimilation problem to wavelet space in order to accurately correct the model background while largely retaining the realistic fractal dynamics generated by the model physics and the sparsification of covariance matrices. - Continue to model/simulate ocean current variability, including the deep ocean boundary providing improved ocean environmental information for Seabed Warfare. Model / simulate high-resolution…
FY2027 planned work - Continue Sound Effects Modeling research to quantify the behavioral and physiological effects on individual and population- level consequences of sound exposure on marine life. - Complete Marine Mammal research to design equipment and capability to quantify the gas management and kinetics in marine species to elucidate the mechanisms that enable marine animals to dive to deep depths. - Continue Sonar Exposure research into the stress response of marine species to sonar exposure, with an emphasis on quantifying the effects of prolonged exposure effects on immune system suppression, reproductive failure, accelerated aging, and slowed growth. - Continue marine species behavior research on…
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding decrease from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to reduced research in Marine Mammal research to design equipment and capability to quantify the gas management and kinetics in marine species to elucidate the mechanisms that enable marine animals to dive to deep depths.
FY2026 plans — current year - Continue Sound Effects Modeling research to quantify the behavioral and physiological effects on individual and population- level consequences of sound exposure on marine life. - Continue Marine Mammal research to design equipment and capability to quantify the gas management and kinetics in marine mammals to elucidate the mechanisms that enable marine mammals to dive to deep depths. - Continue to conduct research on Sound Reception Mechanisms in whales to advance our understanding of sound reception mechanisms in large whales including the anatomy surrounding the ear and the whole head. - Continue Sonar Exposure research into the stress response of marine mammals to sonar exposure, with…