What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 3129 of PE 0603596N. 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.
Mission Package Computing Environment (MPCE) - AN/SYK-31/ Mission Module Online Boat Trainer (MMOBT): - Develop Technology Refresh of MPCE and certify version 2.X - Complete integration testing of MPCE v2.1 with Integrated Combat Management System (General Dynamics) and COMBATSS 21 (Lockheed) - Complete integration and testing of MPCE v2.X with the SUW MPAS - Continue development of next version of MPCE/MMOBT to address post future Mission Package requirements/ capabilities/cybersecurity improvements, and general hardware obsolescence/necessary technology refresh Field prototype version of MMOBT Multi-Vehicle Communications System (MVCS) - AN/SYC-1/ (VULTURE): - Complete hardware and software development for MVCS 2.X (Tech Refresh) - Complete qualification of new software defined radio (GIRD) in MVCS 2.X - Continue development of software/security improvements to meet the latest cybersecurity requirements - Vulture Follow on Efforts to be continued in 3129 - Develop and integrate link control capability to support multiple simultaneous radios - Implement the M-Code GPS receiver modification for VULTURE LCS Common Mission Package Portable Control Station (MPPCS)/Common Mission Package Trainer (CMPT): - Develop and integrate latest versions of SUW and MCM CMPT systems - Develop improvements to MPPCS to ensure system meets MCM Vessel of Opportunity requirements and supports follow on capabilities - Investigate unmanned architecture improvements - Continue development of Multi-Mission Software Architecture to modularize and enable simultaneous operations of SUW/MCM/future software applications on the Mission Package Computing Environment (MPCE) LCS Multi-Mission Software Architecture - Complete MMSA changes to Common Core Software - MCM software to support hybrid operations - SUW software to support hybrid operations
Increase due to accelerated LCS-1 decommissioning and Phase IIC decision to fund MVCS Tech Refresh in alignment with MCM Deployment guidance, and development of multi-mission architecture to support hybrid operations.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
Mission Package Computing Environment (MPCE) - AN/SYK-31 - Continue development and implementation of Cyber updates and system improvements to match Mission Package identified deficiencies in MPCE 2.X - Continue integration testing of MPCE v2.1 with Integrated Combat Management System (General Dynamics) and COMBATSS 21 (Lockheed) - Complete integration and testing of MPCE v2.X with the MCM MPAS - Deliver MPCE 2.X lab units in support of LCS and LCS modernization development - Continue development of next version of MPCE to address post future Mission Package requirements/capabilities, cybersecurity improvements, and general hardware obsolescence/necessary technology refresh - Continue development of the next version of the MMOBT and MPCE baseline to address future Mission Package requirements, capabilities, cybersecurity improvements, and general hardware obsolescence/necessary technology refresh. Multi-Vehicle Communications System (MVCS) - AN/SYC-1: - Implementing interim MVCS 1.3 solution to provide proliferated Low Earth Orbit (pLEO) satellite connectivity - Finalize requirements definition in support of MVCS 2.X (Tech Refresh) development - Initiate hardware and software development for MVCS 2.X - Continue development of software/security improvements to meet latest cybersecurity requirements - Begin development and integration of updated link control capability to support multiple simultaneous radios - Conduct shipboard integration and test to support analysis for VULTURE tethered air vehicle for Beyond Line of Sight (BLOS) applications aboard LCS LCS Common Mission Package Portable Control Station (MPPCS)/Common Mission Package Trainer (CMPT) - Develop and integrate latest versions of SUW and MCM CMPT systems - Develop improvements to MPPCS to ensure system meets MCM Vessel of Opportunity and shore-based operation requirements and supports follow-on capabilities - Continue development of Multi-Mission Software Architecture to support simultaneous operations of SUW and MCM Mission Capabilities
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 | 13.4 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 15.6 |
| FY2027 | Request | 25.1 |
This activity is 100% of project 3129's FY2027 request and 54% of PE 0603596N'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 3129
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.