# Project 9B88 — Automated Test and Analysis

**Program element:** 0603598N — (u)atrt Enterprise RAPID Development  
**Project:** 9B88  
**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/0603598N/9B88  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603598N

## Summary

Project 9B88 — Automated Test and Analysis requests $37.6M in FY2027, 43% of the $87.6M requested for program element 0603598N, up 88% on FY2026. 1 R-2A activity decomposes the request. Innovative Defense is the largest named R-3 performer at $23.1M, 61% of the project's FY2027 R-3 total.

## Funding profile

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 20.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 37.6 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 39.8 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 41.5 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 43.4 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 44.2 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0603598N; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## What project 9B88 buys

Automated Test and ReTest (ATRT) Enterprise Rapid Capability develops, integrates, and deploys novel capabilities aggregated from mature technologies in support of Distributed Maritime Operations. ATRT technologies provide essential development, assessment, and operational analysis capabilities to streamline testing and certification for both single systems and systems of systems capabilities in order to reduce development time for new capabilities from years to weeks. Further, ATRT leverages support to refactoring, development, and assessment of Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning (AI/ML) aids with other applications to deliver warfighting capability. The integration of legacy code and systems across the Naval warfighting portfolio aims to achieve an open integration and interoperability environment. These capabilities are enabled through the use of virtualized systems of systems, automated test and analysis, automated certification, rapid interface development, and field with data collection and edge analytics. These technologies are at the heart of the Navy's rapid capability approach, which combines digital engineering tools with evolutionary approaches to requirements generation, operational testing, and deployment. Project funding supports application of Automated Test and Analysis (ATA) technologies to software-intensive acquisition programs through continued development and commercialization of ATRT Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) technologies across the Navy enterprise. These SBIR derived technologies enable the Navy enterprise to make rapid capability improvements through software updates while maintaining a continuous Authority to Operate (ATO) on a common digital warfighting platform, and in enterprise sandbox technologies.

**R-3 lines of work:** Product Development; Support; Management Services.

## Named R-3 performers

| Performer | $M | Share of this project's FY2027 R-3 total |
|---|---|---|
| Innovative Defense | 23.1 | 61% |
| Salesforce | 2.7 | 7.2% |
| Ink to Think | 2.5 | 6.6% |
| OCEA | 2.2 | 5.9% |

> 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Automated Test and ReTest (ATRT) | 0.0 | 20.0 | 37.6 | +88% | [a0](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603598N/9B88/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.

### Automated Test and ReTest (ATRT)

FY 2027 funding is utilized to ramp up execution of crucial Department of the Navy Rapid Capabilities Office (DONRCO) functions necessary for (1) identification of hard problems and capability gaps through coordination and communication with Combatant Commander and Fleet (2) stakeholder engagement to include Warfighter and Industry to…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603598N/9B88/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/0603598N.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Navy RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0603598N project 9B88 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0603598N")`.

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