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RDT&E Program Element · President's Budget PB2027

(u)automated TEST AND Re-test (ATRT)

PE 0603597N·U.S. Navy·Approp. 1319 — RDT&E·BA4 — Advanced Component Development & Prototypes
FY2027 Request
$18.1M
Navy · RDT&E
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U.S. Navy funding falls 38% to a $18.1M request in FY2027 (down from a FY2026 peak), sustained across the five-year plan. In the FY2027 defense authorization, the House funded it in full; the Senate funded it in full; House appropriators added 83% (to $33.1M). Innovative Defense leads the industry work.

FY2027 Request
$18.1M
▼ 38% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$29.2M
▲ 17% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$25.0M
Prior year

Roll-up of 2 projects. Projects are the summable leaves — the PE total is their sum, never added to it.

For fiscal year 2027, the U.S. Navy is requesting $18.1M for (u)automated TEST AND Re-test (ATRT) under RDT&E program element 0603597N, down 38% from FY2026.

Funding trajectory

Funding profile, 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.

25025.0FY25ACTUAL29.2FY26ENACTED18.1FY27REQUEST19.0FY2819.9FY2920.8FY3021.2FY31
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual25.0
FY2026Enacted29.2
FY2027Request18.1
FY2028Outyear19.0
FY2029Outyear19.9
FY2030Outyear20.8
FY2031Outyear21.2
Where it sits

Acquisition lifecycle

This program is funded in RDT&E Budget Activity 4 — Advanced Component Development & Prototypes.

Complete
Research
BA 1–2
Complete
Advanced Technology
BA 3
Current
Prototyping
BA 4
Later
Development & Fielding
BA 5–7
Inside the program element

2 projects roll up into PE 0603597N

Projects are the summable leaves — the PE total is their sum, never added to it. Program elements and projects carry the full five-year plan; activities stop at the budget year. This PE moves -38% overall, which can hide much larger swings below.

Congressional action

Congressional marks

Committee marks on the FY2027 request. Adds and cuts are reconciled in conference before they become law.

RequestPresident's Budget
$18.1M
House NDAA (HASC)HASC
$18.1M full · +$0
Senate NDAA (SASC)SASC
$18.1M full · +$0
House Approps (HAC-D)HAC_D
$33.1M +$15.0M · +83%
▲ $15.0M chamber gap — unresolved as of 2026-07-27. These are FY2027 authorization marks (NDAA); appropriations and the conference agreement may differ.
Who's building it

Where the FY2027 request goes

Performers named in the R-3 exhibit, resolved into industry, government-lab, and unspecified shares. Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations.

Innovative Defense
$6.3M · 35%
Automated Test & Analysis · CPFF
NIWC Pacific
$4.8M · 26%
Automated Test & Analysis
Where FY2027 funding flowsShare$M
Industry primes63%11.4
Other / unspecified37%6.7
FY2027 request100%18.1
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Program detail

Mission & acquisition strategy

Automated Test and Re-Test (ATRT) capabilities enable faster and more consistent testing across the Naval enterprise. Specifically in the near term this project seeks to implement ATRT into digital capabilities, laboratory testing, and the Overmatch Software Armory (OSA) DevSecOps environment to conduct secure system development scalable distributed simulation. A seamless push to afloat, airborne, and edge infrastructure allowing the Navy's designated user community to make software updates (new and modernization of old code) while maintaining, or eliminating, the need for an Authority to Operate (ATO).

This is a non ACAT program. The ATRT project enables automated test tool projects from all qualified sources that enables significantly reduced time to complete critical testing, increased productivity, system robustness, improving and speeding test analysis, and identifying commonalities for reuse in transformational automated testing for Naval acquisition programs. This project leverages small business entrepreneurship and innovation, and subsequent scaling of those capabilities to the Navy enterprise in partnership with the Defense Industrial Base, government laboratories / capabilities, and academia.

Project 9B88, 9999 — Automated Test and Analysis
  • Product Development
  • Support
  • Management Services
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FY2027 Department of the Navy RDT&E Budget Justification · Exhibits R-2 / R-3 · PE 0603597N (President's Budget PB2027) — and FY2027 NDAA committee marks, as tracked 2026-07-27.
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FY2027 Request
$18.1M
▲ 83% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$9.9M
▼ 6.4% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$10.5M
Prior year

Automated Test and Analysis — one RDT&E project inside PE 0603597N. Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, not on a project.

Project 9B88 — Automated Test and Analysis — requests $18.1M in FY2027, 100% of the $18.1M requested for program element 0603597N. Year over year it grows 83% against FY2026.

Funding trajectory

Project 9B88 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.

010.5FY25ACTUAL9.9FY26ENACTED18.1FY27REQUEST19.0FY2819.9FY2920.8FY3021.2FY31
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual10.5
FY2026Enacted9.9
FY2027Request18.1
FY2028Outyear19.0
FY2029Outyear19.9
FY2030Outyear20.8
FY2031Outyear21.2
Inside the project

1 accomplishment / planned program

The R-2A exhibit. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan — and they are descriptive: coverage is partial and they do not always add back to the project, so count them, never total them. Opening lines only here — the full year-by-year narrative is on the project page.

Automated Test and Analysis▲ 83%
FY2025 actual$10.5M
FY2026 enacted$9.9M
FY2027 request$18.1M

- Continue to scale the ATRT enterprise capabilities that support Cloud Development Environments (DevSecOps software factories, environments, and tools) - Continue the enhancement of ATRT tools supporting DevSecOps CD/CI in support of priority all domain mission thread(s). - Continue the scaling and expansion of ATRT to support…

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Who's building it

Named performers on project 9B88

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.

Innovative Defense
$6.3M · 35%
NIWC Pacific
$4.8M · 26%
Tech-Marine Business
$0.4M · 2.1%
Project detail

What project 9B88 buys

Automated Test and Re-Test (ATRT) capabilities enable faster and more consistent testing across the Naval enterprise. Specifically in the near term this project seeks to implement ATRT into digital capabilities, laboratory testing, and the Overmatch Software Armory (OSA) DevSecOps environment to conduct secure system development scalable distributed simulation. A seamless push to afloat, airborne, and edge infrastructure allowing the Navy's designated user community to make software updates (new and modernization of old code) while maintaining, or eliminating, the need for an Authority to Operate (ATO). The Continuous Delivery/Continuous Integration (CD/CI) of capability enabled by the ATRT technology for real time software code analysis and performance testing in the Cloud Development Environment (CDE) as well as rapid feedback in the Operational Environment (OE). Enabling this effort, this program is developing and scaling the Integrated Modeling Environment (IME), which supports shared and linked Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) from the mission level to the function/system level. This will in turn power the ATRT models that analytically link together software code production output with intended planned capability developed against gaps filled at the mission level, enabling rapid and continuous iteration and deployment of software into the digital environment.

R-3 lines of work
  • Product Development
  • Support
  • Management Services
FY2027 Request
$0.0M
▼ 100% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$19.3M
▲ 33% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$14.5M
Prior year

Congressional Adds — one RDT&E project inside PE 0603597N. Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, not on a project.

Project 9999 — Congressional Adds — requests $0.0M in FY2027, 0.0% of the $18.1M requested for program element 0603597N. Year over year it falls 100% against FY2026.

Funding trajectory

Project 9999 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.

014.5FY25ACTUAL19.3FY26ENACTED0.0FY27REQUEST0.0FY280.0FY290.0FY300.0FY31
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual14.5
FY2026Enacted19.3
FY2027Request0.0
FY2028Outyear0.0
FY2029Outyear0.0
FY2030Outyear0.0
FY2031Outyear0.0
Project detail

What project 9999 buys

ATRT technologies provide essential development and operational analysis capabilities to streamline testing and certification for software for both single systems/units and systems of systems capabilities to reduce development time for new capabilities from years to weeks. Leveraging cloud and virtualization technologies within a force-level system of systems interoperability test bed, ATRT enables agile software updates to afloat and airborne edge infrastructures with automated near real-time analysis of interoperability improvements and performance virtually.

R-3 lines of work
  • Product Development