What project 3262 buys
The Next Generation Oceanographic Survey Ship (T-AGS Next) will provide the Navy with persistent, globally deployable oceanographic survey capability required to support undersea warfare, mine warfare, seabed warfare, safe navigation, and environmental intelligence. The platform will collect, process, and disseminate high-resolution bathymetric, hydrographic, geophysical, acoustic, and oceanographic data in support of fleet operations and joint force requirements. T-AGS Next will replace aging T-AGS 60 Pathfinder Class oceanographic survey ships reaching the end of their service lives in the 2030s. The new capability will be designed to operate worldwide and will integrate manned and unmanned survey systems to increase survey speed, coverage, and persistence. The ship will function as a mothership for unmanned underwater, surface, and airborne survey vehicles and will support rapid data processing and dissemination to fleet and joint users. The program will emphasize leveraging existing ship designs, commercial shipbuilding practices, and mature mission systems in order to rapidly deliver oceanographic survey capability while minimizing development risk and controlling lifecycle cost. RDT&E funding supports global market research analysis and capability trade studies for the Next Generation Oceanographic Survey Ship (T-AGS Next). This effort will evaluate commercially available ship designs, mature technologies, and existing oceanographic survey platforms in order to identify cost-effective solutions capable of meeting Navy oceanographic survey requirements. Activities will assess the integration of existing sensor suites, unmanned systems, and mission system architectures while aligning design options with cost and schedule constraints. Results of this effort will inform the acquisition strategy and support transition to detail design and construction in the Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy appropriation.
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- Test and Evaluation
Project 3262 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 | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 45.0 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 0.0 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 0.0 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 0.0 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 0.0 |
1 accomplishment / planned program
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. Each 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.
Funding will initiate global market research analysis and capability trade studies for the Next Generation Oceanographic Survey Ship. Efforts will evaluate existing ship designs, commercial shipbuilding approaches, and mature technologies that can support Navy oceanographic survey missions. Activities will assess unmanned system…
Read the FY2027 plan →Named performers on project 3262
Performers named in the R-3 exhibit under this project. Share is of the project's whole FY2027 R-3 total — the same denominator the program-element split uses, so the two read on one scale and will not sum to 100% when unnamed or government work is in the mix. Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations.