What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 3262 of PE 0603564N. 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.
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 integration, sensor suites, mission system architectures, and hull design options using commercially available solutions wherever feasible. These efforts will align candidate designs with cost, schedule, and performance considerations and support development of the acquisition strategy and procurement planning.
New Start
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 | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 45.0 |
This activity is 100% of project 3262's FY2027 request and 6.8% of PE 0603564N'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 3262
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.