# Ship Design Tools and Workforce Development

**R-2A activity** of project 2196 — Design, Tools, Plans and Concepts  
**Program element:** 0603563N — Ship Concept Advanced Design  
**Component:** U.S. Navy · **Budget Activity:** 4  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603563N/2196/a2  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603563N/2196

> **RESTART.** Funded in FY2025 ($8.1M), zeroed in FY2026, $15.1M requested again in FY2027.

## Summary

This activity requests $15.1M in FY2027, 51% of project 2196 — a restart, funded in FY2025 and zeroed in FY2026. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2026–FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2027 planned work.** 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.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Budget increase is for funded NACT activities after prior year zeroing due to reconciliation incongruence.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** FY26 plans were descoped due to reconciliation incongruence.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 8.1 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 15.1 |

> Prior, current and budget year only — an R-2A activity carries no five-year plan. It sums exactly into its project in the request year and not necessarily in any other.

## Other activities in project 2196

- Future Surface Combatant Force (FSCF) Analysis — FY2027 9.1
- Naval Capability Integration Process (NCIP) - From the Sea (FTS) — FY2027 5.5

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Navy RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0603563N project 2196 (PB PB2027). Narrative is the government's own text.
- **No marks, no contractors at this grain** — congressional marks land on the program element and R-3 performers on the project.
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_activity`.

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