What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 2196 of PE 0603563N. This is the budget justification's own description of work that has not happened yet — the one thing no other level of the budget carries.
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 (COLLECT) effort which accelerates the warfighting advantage through the development of the engineering and analytic workforce along with the tools that enable their work. COLLECT continuously executes warfighting analysis and concept design across the surface force to validate warfighting requirements and the platforms that best host them, as opposed to the formerly ad hoc nature of those efforts. This will maintain an experienced workforce ready to execute engineering tasking and developing and sustaining the appropriate toolsets for their trades, including combat systems and mission level analysis, power and energy tools, and naval engineering and susceptibility analysis. The continuous efforts of COLLECT enable the efficient transition of appropriate capabilities into programs of record and validation of resource decision impacts.
Budget increase is for funded NACT activities after prior year zeroing due to reconciliation incongruence.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
FY26 plans were descoped due to reconciliation incongruence.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 8.1 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 15.1 |
This activity is 51% of project 2196's FY2027 request and 4.3% of PE 0603563N's. In the request year the activities under a project sum to it exactly; in the current year they under-cover it in about 9% of cases, so an activity's delta can legitimately exceed its parent's and the two must not be compared row to row.
3 activities in project 2196
Every R-2A line of this project, largest FY2027 request first. Linked where the activity has enough of its own narrative to carry a page; the rest are shown in full on the project page.