# Project 2196 — Design, Tools, Plans and Concepts

**Program element:** 0603563N — Ship Concept Advanced Design  
**Project:** 2196  
**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/0603563N/2196  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603563N

## Summary

Project 2196 — Design, Tools, Plans and Concepts requests $29.7M in FY2027, 8.4% of the $353.9M requested for program element 0603563N — a restart: funded in FY2025, zeroed in FY2026, funded again now. 3 R-2A activities decompose the request, 3 restarted this cycle. NCIP NSMA is the largest named R-3 performer at $1.5M, 5.1% of the project's FY2027 R-3 total.

## Funding profile

| 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 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0603563N; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## 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.

**R-3 lines of work:** Product Development.

## Named R-3 performers

| Performer | $M | Share of this project's FY2027 R-3 total |
|---|---|---|
| NCIP NSMA | 1.5 | 5.1% |
| Tools & Workforce Development | 1.5 | 5.1% |

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

## Activities (R-2A) — 3

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ship Design Tools and Workforce Development | 8.1 | 0.0 | 15.1 | restart | [a2](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603563N/2196/a2) |
| Future Surface Combatant Force (FSCF) Analysis | 7.6 | 0.0 | 9.1 | restart | — |
| Naval Capability Integration Process (NCIP) - From the Sea (FTS) | 4.6 | 0.0 | 5.5 | restart | — |

> 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.

### Ship Design Tools and Workforce Development — RESTART

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…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603563N/2196/a2

### Future Surface Combatant Force (FSCF) Analysis — RESTART

**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.

### Naval Capability Integration Process (NCIP) - From the Sea (FTS) — RESTART

**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.

## 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/0603563N.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Navy RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0603563N project 2196 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0603563N")`.

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