# Project 1916 — Surface ASW System Improvement

**Program element:** 0603561N — Advanced Submarine System Development  
**Project:** 1916  
**Component:** U.S. Navy  
**Appropriation:** 1319 — RDT&E, Navy  
**Budget Activity:** 4 — Advanced Component Development & Prototypes  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603561N/1916  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603561N

## Summary

Project 1916 — Surface ASW System Improvement requests $26.3M in FY2027, 20% of the $132.9M requested for program element 0603561N, down 12% on FY2026. 4 R-2A activities decompose the request. Lockheed Martin is the largest named R-3 performer at $9.3M, 35% of the project's FY2027 R-3 total.

## Funding profile

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 29.8 |
| FY2027 | Request | 26.3 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 29.1 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 29.8 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 29.6 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 30.2 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0603561N; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## What project 1916 buys

ASW remains a Navy core competency in a dynamic and uncertain maritime environment. U.S. adversaries continue to develop asymmetric capabilities and capacities to deter, disrupt, or delay the entry of U.S. and allied naval forces, and pose a constant challenge as we implement the Maritime Strategy. Evolving submarine technologies offer enhanced stealth, speed, endurance, weapons, and operational proficiency, foretelling that the adversary submarine of the future will have a significantly larger sphere of influence, while presenting less vulnerability to U.S. forces. The effective offensive engagement range of the adversary submarine of the future will continue to match or outrange individual U.S. and multinational platform sensors and weapons in many tactical environments. Submarines are an increasing threat to all Naval and Allied ships, particularly modern diesel subs and faster torpedoes. Not only can the presence of potential hostile submarines delay naval combatant action until they are located and neutralized, submarines can also disrupt all seaborne logistics supply for any ground campaign as well as maritime commerce. U.S. forces must be effective in all operating environments, ranging from the deep open ocean to the littorals, and are key to countering adversarial anti-access and area denial strategies. The Surface ASW System Improvement project will support essential performance enhancements to the AN/SQQ-89A(V)15 Surface Ship ASW Combat System. This project will improve Measures of Performance (MOP) by enhancing operator interface methods and tools; active and passive detection; tracking, classification, and localization; Torpedo Detection, Classification, and Localization (TDCL); sonobuoy data processing and display capabilities; and increasing acoustic sensor frequency bandwidth (Operational Requirements Document (ORD) #667-76-05 titled 'AN/SQQ-89 Improvement Program' and Test & Evaluation Master Plan (TEMP) 802-2). This project will take advantage of the AN/SQQ-89A(V)15 Surface Ship ASW Combat System Open System Architecture (OSA) and Acoustic Rapid Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Insertion (ARCI) initiatives to integrate TDCL and ASW sonar and combat system capability improvements. The AN/SQQ-89A(V)15 Surface Ship ASW Combat System is planned as a backfit program for CG47 (select CG59-73 Baseline 3 and 4 ships) and all DDG51 class ships.

**R-3 lines of work:** Product Development; Test and Evaluation; Management Services.

## Named R-3 performers

| Performer | $M | Share of this project's FY2027 R-3 total |
|---|---|---|
| Lockheed Martin | 9.3 | 35% |
| VAR | 3.5 | 13% |
| KMS Solutions* | 1.1 | 4.0% |
| SERCO | 1.0 | 3.8% |

> Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations. Shares need not reach 100% — unnamed and government work is in the denominator.

## Activities (R-2A) — 4

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AN/SQQ-89A(V)15 Surface Ship ASW Advanced Capability Build (ACB) Development | 0.0 | 22.4 | 20.1 | −10% | [a0](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603561N/1916/a0) |
| AN/SQQ-89A(V)15 Cyber Security Architecture Upgrade | 0.0 | 4.6 | 4.2 | −9% | — |
| AN/SQQ-89A(V)15 Surface Ship Engineering Measurement Program (SSEMP) | 0.0 | 2.0 | 1.5 | −25% | — |
| AN/SQQ-89A(V)15 Surface Ship ASW Test & Evaluation (T&E) | 0.0 | 0.7 | 0.5 | −33% | — |

> 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.

### AN/SQQ-89A(V)15 Surface Ship ASW Advanced Capability Build (ACB) Development

- Continue updating ACB trunk software infrastructure for operating system obsolescence. - Continue integration of ACB Step 2 developed capabilities via 12-week Agile DevSecOps software releases. - Continue execution of incremental Step 3 land-based testing in support of ACB-27. - Maintain PRWGs of national-level SMEs for Active Sonar…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603561N/1916/a0

### AN/SQQ-89A(V)15 Cyber Security Architecture Upgrade

**FY2027 planned work.** - Continue development and adoption of cybersecurity resilience techniques within combat system architecture and sailor response tools for implementation in ACB-27. - Continue development and implementation of cybersecurity measures across system access vectors, vulnerabilities, and engineering of new combat system capabilities, in particular progress towards: identifying mission-success-focused prioritization of cyber vulnerabilities (next iteration of Cyber Bar Stool); adversary opportunity space, network perimeter security, and software delivery pipeline security; infrastructure integrity; integrity assurance (Hydra); extend developer's toolbox; conduct organic test events; validate hardware-external interface security; implement software supply chain protections at key points of the pipeline; implement integrity assurance for trusted applications; and improve password management. - Initiate conduct of cyber-related testing of ACB-27 software during system development. - Implement cybersecurity and resiliency improvements for ACB-27 software.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** The FY 2026 ($4.624M) to FY 2027 ($4.207M) decrease ($-0.417M) is the result of multiple program and rate adjustments for contractor support services and issues to balance RDT&EN across the DoN and DoW.

**FY2026 plans — current year.** - Continue development and adoption of cybersecurity resilience techniques within combat system architecture and sailor response tools for implementation in ACB-25. - Continue development and implementation of cybersecurity measures across system access vectors, vulnerabilities, and engineering of new combat system capabilities, in particular progress towards: identifying mission-success-focused prioritization of cyber vulnerabilities (next iteration of Cyber Bar Stool); adversary opportunity space, network perimeter security, and software delivery pipeline security; infrastructure integrity; integrity assurance (Hydra); extend developer's toolbox; conduct organic test events; validate hardware-external interface security; implement software supply chain protections at key points of the pipeline; implement integrity assurance for trusted applications; and improve password management. - Initiate conduct of cyber-related testing of ACB-25 software during system development. - Implement cybersecurity and resiliency improvements for ACB-25 software.

### AN/SQQ-89A(V)15 Surface Ship Engineering Measurement Program (SSEMP)

**FY2027 planned work.** - Support conduct of AN/SQQ-89A(V)15 DT/OT data collection. - Continue planning support for ACB-23 OT. - Continue analysis of performance data from real-world cases/exercises. - Deliver analyses on three (3) real-world cases. - Continue data review to identify potential future analysis targets. - Continue to support the development of rapid reconstruction and analysis tools. - Continue support of ONI data reduction of Fleet collections for analysis and advanced development.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** The FY 2026 ($1.975M) to FY 2027 ($1.475M) decrease ($-0.500M) is the result of multiple program and rate adjustments for contractor support services and issues to balance RDT&EN across the DoN and DoW.

**FY2026 plans — current year.** - Conduct ACB-19/Hypervisor Technology-0 (HT0) OT data collection. - Complete analysis of ACB-19/HT0 OT data and results. - Continue planning support for ACB-23 OT. - Initiate planning for ACB-25 OT including Test & Evaluation Master Plan (TEMP) update. - Continue analysis of performance data from real-world SSEMP cases/exercises. - Deliver analyses on three (3) real-world cases. - Continued data review to identify of potential future analysis targets. - Support the development of rapid reconstruction and analysis tools. - Continue support of ONI data reduction of Fleet collections for analysis and advanced development.

### AN/SQQ-89A(V)15 Surface Ship ASW Test & Evaluation (T&E)

**FY2027 planned work.** - Conduct HT0-0.19 OT. - Continue ACB-23 TEMP analysis and resource development. - Continue ACB-25 TEMP analysis and resource development. - Continue planning ACB-23 DT event. - Continue planning for ACB-23 OT event. - Conduct lab-based testing in support of ACB-23 DT. - Initiate planning for ACB-23 Cyber OT. - Initiate planning for ACB-25 Cyber OT.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** The FY 2026 ($0.745M) to FY 2027 ($0.500M) decrease ($-0.245M) is the result of multiple program and rate adjustments for contractor support services and issues to balance RDT&EN across the DoN and DoW.

**FY2026 plans — current year.** - Continue ACB-23 TEMP analysis and resource development. - Conduct ACB-19/Hypervisor Technology-0 (HT0) OT Readiness Review (OTRR). - Conduct ACB-19 HT0 OT event. - Initiate planning for ACB-23 DT event. - Initiate planning for ACB-23 OT event. - Initiate ACB-25 TEMP analysis and resource development.

## 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/0603561N.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Navy RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0603561N project 1916 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0603561N")`.

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