What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 3505 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.
The T-ACS(X) CDD and spec will be completed and presented at Gate 3. Through an industry day and RFP solicitation, industry will be engaged at this time in order to prepare for design and construction. The MPS(X) AoA will be completed and reviewed at a Gate 2. Simultaneously, the CDD and spec will be developed. Industry studies will be awarded towards the end of the fiscal year. The T-AVB(X) ICD is planned to be validated at Gate 1 and the AoA will follow. While the AoA is nearing completion, the CDD will begin development.
The increase of $28.039 million from FY2026 to FY2027 reflects an increase in requirements development, program management support, concept engineering to support multiple AoAs, major vessel conversion technical package development, multiple vessel specification development, multiple industry study contracts, and new construction management contracts. Overall, this PE's budget increase reflects accountability of conducting three concurrent future sealift projects: Crane Ship (T-ACS(X)), Maritime Prepositioning Ship (MPS(X)) and Aviation Maintenance Ship (T-AVB(X)) recapitalizations efforts.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 1.4 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 28.0 |
This activity is 100% of project 3505's FY2027 request and 7.9% 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.
1 activity in project 3505
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.