What project 2196 buys
Project 2196 - This project provides the analytical foundation for making informed force structure, capability and affordability decisions in the development of all future surface ship platforms, weapons, sensors and combat systems. It achieves this through total ship system engineering, technology integration, cost estimation, mission effectiveness analysis, force architecture synthesis, and force-level effectiveness analysis, as well as continuous development of the people, tools and processes required to efficiently accomplish these efforts efficiently. This includes early-stage concept development studies for all potential future surface ships. It includes quantitative mission and force-level analysis to identify future capability gaps and requirements related to advances in threat capabilities, and evaluation of the effectiveness and affordability of potential future technology and concept of operations (CONOP) solutions. Results from this project are used to inform senior Navy leadership in support of budgetary decisions, Capability Evolution Plans (CEP), and requirements related to surface ship force structure, platforms and major combat system elements.
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Project 2196 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 | 20.2 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 29.7 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 29.3 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 29.9 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 30.0 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 30.4 |
3 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.
Increase development of ship design and analysis tools to improve efficiency and fidelity. Support mentorship, knowledge creation, capture, and transfer, foundational training, and career development opportunities to develop the next generation naval engineering workforce. Establish the Collaborative, Enduring, Concepts and Tools…
Read the FY2027 plan →FY2027 planned work Re-baseline analysis to capture key acquisition, technology, CONOPs and threat developments.
FY2026 to FY2027 change Budget increase is for funded NACT activities after prior year zeroing due to reconciliation incongruence.
FY2026 plans — current year FY26 plans were descoped based on reconciliation incongruence.
FY2027 planned work Conduct mission and force-level effectiveness analysis via the annual NCIP-FTS process. Evaluate the ability of current, programmed and non-programmed near-term capabilities to address capability requirements and gaps within integrated effects chains relative to future stressing threats and approved Presidential Budgets. Execute NCIP-FTS systems of systems analysis against the projected threat and provide quantitative analytical data to support Navy Leadership Program Objective Memorandum warfighting capability decisions.
FY2026 to FY2027 change Budget increase is for the return of funded NCIP activities to full support after prior year zeroing due to reconciliation incongruence.
FY2026 plans — current year FY26 plans were descoped due to reconciliation incongruence.
Named performers on project 2196
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.