What project 3376 buys
Project 3376 - Strategic Sealift Research and Development - Develops new concepts and technologies which can be applied to or will enable future strategic sealift, and Seabasing systems. The technologies include ship configuration concepts, equipment to increase cargo handling and cargo loading/unloading rates (including commercial and merchant ship systems), improved man/machine interfaces, improved structural configurations and materials, and Logistics-Over-the-Shore (LOTS) equipment and system improvements. Prior Years include: FY2016 and prior years (FY2014 and earlier) efforts financed under the National Defense Sealift Fund (NDSF) BA 04 Project 3116 Strategic Sealift Research and Development; FY2015, FY2017, FY2019 thru FY2024 efforts financed under this program element, RDT&E,N BA04, Project 3376 (Strategic Sealift); and FY2018 efforts financed under RDT&E,N BA 04 Project 9999/C403 (Congressional Adds). The FY2026 budget for Strategic Sealift Research and Development included $0 thousand of discretionary (zeroed out as part of the Congressional Mark for Reconciliation Funding Incongruence) and $42,200 thousand of mandatory (reconciliation) for a total of $42,200 thousand. The mandatory funds supported the T-AKE Expeditionary Reload Equipment. The FY2027 request for Strategic Sealift includes $184,191 thousand of discretionary funding.
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Project 3376 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 13.1 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 184.2 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 6.4 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 6.1 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 2.8 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 2.8 |
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.
Continue investigation and demonstration of shipboard crane/cargo system improvements including T-AKE Expeditionary Reload and MK 41 Strike Up/Strike Down System. Initiate Naval Strike Missile and MK 48 torpedo reloading system improvements efforts. Complete fabrication, installation, and demonstration of At-Sea Reload of VLS (ASRV)…
Read the FY2027 plan →FY2027 planned work Continue support and testing of installed Environmental and Ship Motion Forecasting System on board ESD and EPF class vessels. Complete installation of system on two T-AKE class vessels.
FY2026 to FY2027 change Increase of $4.149 million reflects efforts related to installations aboard two T-AKE vessels and improvements to the existing ESD installation.
FY2026 plans — current year Continue support and testing of installed Environmental and Ship Motion Forecasting System on board ESD and EPF class vessels. Complete installation of system on one T-AKE class vessel. Note: Efforts will be completed utilizing FY2025 Mandatory Reconciliation Funding.
FY2027 planned work Continue Sealift Research and Technology development and program guidance, continue investigation of improved sealift vessel survivability and resume Inter-Theater Munitions Transport concept development (formerly identified as Lighter/ HSV Seabase to Shore Cargo Transfer).
FY2026 to FY2027 change Increase of $2.305 million reflects increased scope of survivability and intra-theater munitions transport concept development projects.
FY2026 plans — current year Continue Sealift Research and Technology development and program guidance, continue investigation of improved sealift vessel survivability and resume Inter-Theater Munitions Transport concept development (formerly identified as Lighter/ HSV Seabase to Shore Cargo Transfer). Note: Efforts will be completed utilizing FY2025 Mandatory Reconciliation Funding.