# (u)automated TEST AND Re-test (ATRT) — Program Element 0603597N

**Program element:** 0603597N  
**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/0603597N

## Summary

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.

## Funding profile

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 25.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 29.2 |
| FY2027 | Request | 18.1 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 19.0 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 19.9 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 20.8 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 21.2 |

> Estimate types are not summed — the profile mixes actuals, enacted law, the request, and outyear projections.

## Congressional marks (FY2027)

| Stage | Marked ($M) | Change ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| Request | 18.1 | — |
| House NDAA (HASC) | 18.1 | +0.0 |
| Senate NDAA (SASC) | 18.1 | +0.0 |
| House Approps (HAC-D) | 33.1 | +15.0 |

> FY2027 NDAA authorization marks, as of 2026-07-27. Not appropriations or final law.

## Projects (2)

| Project | Title | FY2025 actual | FY2026 enacted | FY2027 request | Move |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9B88 | Automated Test and Analysis | 10.5 | 9.9 | 18.1 | +83% |
| 9999 | Congressional Adds | 14.5 | 19.3 | 0.0 | −100% |

> Projects are the summable leaves: the program element total is their sum, never added to it.

### Project 9B88 — Automated Test and Analysis

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.

**Named R-3 performers** (share of this project's FY2027 R-3 total, so they need not reach 100%)**:** Innovative Defense (6.3, 35%), NIWC Pacific (4.8, 26%), Tech-Marine Business (0.4, 2.1%).

| Activity (R-2A) | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Automated Test and Analysis | 10.5 | 9.9 | 18.1 |

> R-2A activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan. Coverage is partial, so count them, never total them.

### Project 9999 — Congressional Adds

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.

## Where the FY2027 request goes

| Category | Share | $M |
|---|---|---|
| Industry primes | 63% | 11.4 |
| Other / unspecified | 37% | 6.7 |

**Top named industry performers:** Innovative Defense ($6.3M, 35%), NIWC Pacific ($4.8M, 26%), Tech-Marine Business ($0.4M, 2.1%).

> R-3 exhibit contract funding, not USAspending obligations.

## 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.

## Related program elements

- [0603275A — Electronic Warfare Advanced Technology](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603275A) (Army)
- [0303248F — Air Force Command and Control (C2) Comm](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0303248F) (Air Force)
- [1206440SF — Next-Gen OPIR -- Ground](https://hitchintel.com/programs/1206440SF) (Space Force)
- [0308601N — Modeling & Simulation Support](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0308601N) (Navy)

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Navy RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-3, PE 0603597N (PB PB2027); FY2027 NDAA committee marks (as of 2026-07-27).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0603597N")`.

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