# Project 3262 — T-AGS Design & Total Ship Integration

**Program element:** 0603564N — Ship Prel Design & Feasibility Studies  
**Project:** 3262  
**Component:** U.S. Navy  
**Appropriation:** 1319 — RDT&E, Navy  
**Budget Activity:** 4 — Advanced Component Development & Prototypes  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603564N/3262  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603564N

## Summary

Project 3262 — T-AGS Design & Total Ship Integration requests $45.0M in FY2027, 6.8% of the $666.6M requested for program element 0603564N — a new start, with no prior-year and no current-year money. 1 R-2A activity decomposes the request, 1 new this cycle. Sayres is the largest named R-3 performer at $5.0M, 11% of the project's FY2027 R-3 total.

## Funding profile

| 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 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0603564N; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## 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.

**R-3 lines of work:** Product Development; Support; Test and Evaluation.

## Named R-3 performers

| Performer | $M | Share of this project's FY2027 R-3 total |
|---|---|---|
| Sayres | 5.0 | 11% |

> Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations. Shares need not reach 100% — unnamed and government work is in the denominator.

## Activities (R-2A) — 1

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T-AGS(X) Design & Total Ship Integration | 0.0 | 0.0 | 45.0 | new | [a0](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603564N/3262/a0) |

> Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan. In the request year they partition this project exactly; in earlier years they can under-cover it.

### T-AGS(X) Design & Total Ship Integration — NEW START

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…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603564N/3262/a0

## What is NOT on this page

Congressional marks, the R-2 mission description and acquisition strategy, the industry vs government split of the whole request, and related program elements are recorded at **program-element** grain — an NDAA mark lands on a PE, never on a project. They are at https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603564N.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Navy RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0603564N project 3262 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0603564N")`.

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