# Project 1050 — Manufacturing Tech **Program element:** 0603680N — Manufacturing Technology Program **Project:** 1050 **Component:** U.S. Navy **Appropriation:** 1319 — RDT&E, Navy **Budget Activity:** 3 — Advanced Technology Development **Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027 **Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603680N/1050 **Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603680N ## Summary Project 1050 — Manufacturing Tech requests $79.1M in FY2027, 100% of the $79.1M requested for program element 0603680N, up 24% on FY2026. 4 R-2A activities decompose the request. ## Funding profile | Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) | |---|---|---| | FY2025 | Actual | 61.2 | | FY2026 | Enacted | 63.9 | | FY2027 | Request | 79.1 | | FY2028 | Outyear | 83.9 | | FY2029 | Outyear | 63.6 | | FY2030 | Outyear | 64.9 | | FY2031 | Outyear | 66.0 | > Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0603680N; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them. ## What project 1050 buys The Office of Naval Research's (ONR) mission is to foster scientific research for the advancement of naval power. This work does not stop at the laboratory. Delivery of breakthrough capability often requires new technologies in manufacturing and supply chains of national security. The Manufacturing Technology (ManTech) Program is intended to improve the productivity and responsiveness of the U.S. defense industrial base by funding the development, optimization, and transition of enabling manufacturing technologies to key naval suppliers. In general, investments transition emerging Science and Technology (S&T) results to acquisition programs; improve industrial capabilities in production, maintenance, repair and industrial base responsiveness; and advance manufacturing technology to reduce cost, improve performance, and responsiveness. Currently, the ManTech Program is focused on expanded throughput, affordability, and enhanced capability for specific key acquisition platforms as defined in the Navy ManTech Investment Strategy. Primary platforms currently targeted include: VIRGINIA Class Submarine (VCS)/COLUMBIA Class submarine (CLB); DDG 51 Class destroyer; CVN 78 Class carrier; F-35 Lightning II aircraft; and critical PEO IWS systems. Office of Naval Research The Office of Naval Research's (ONR) mission is to foster scientific research for the advancement of naval power. This work does not stop at the laboratory. Delivery of breakthrough capability often requires new technologies in manufacturing and supply chains of national security. The Manufacturing Technology (ManTech) Program is intended to improve the productivity and responsiveness of the U.S. defense industrial base by funding the development, optimization, and transition of enabling manufacturing technologies to key naval suppliers. In general, investments transition emerging Science and Technology (S&T) results to acquisition programs; improve industrial capabilities in production, maintenance, repair and industrial base responsiveness; and advance manufacturing technology to reduce cost, improve performance, and responsiveness. Currently, the ManTech Program is focused on expanded throughput, affordability, and enhanced capability for specific key acquisition platforms as defined in the Navy ManTech Investment Strategy. ## Activities (R-2A) — 4 | Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | Manufacturing Enterprise/Other | 29.8 | 19.2 | 35.2 | +84% | [a3](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603680N/1050/a3) | | Composites Processing and Fabrication | 8.0 | 16.7 | 16.2 | −3% | [a0](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603680N/1050/a0) | | Electronics Processing and Fabrication | 12.0 | 16.1 | 16.2 | +1% | [a1](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603680N/1050/a1) | | Metals Processing and Fabrication | 11.5 | 11.9 | 11.5 | −3% | [a2](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603680N/1050/a2) | > 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. ### Manufacturing Enterprise/Other - Complete advanced manufacturing enterprise and sustainment technology projects in support of key platforms in areas such as additive manufacturing, coatings, digital measurement, process flow optimization, and digital process optimization. - Continue to develop and transition advanced manufacturing enterprise and sustainment technology… Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603680N/1050/a3 ### Composites Processing and Fabrication - Continue to develop and transition composites manufacturing technology improvements that result in expanded through-put, affordability, and enhanced capability for key platforms: VCS/CLB, DDG 51, CVN 78, F-35, and PEO IWS systems. - Continue composites efforts in support of key platforms in technology areas including in support of key… Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603680N/1050/a0 ### Electronics Processing and Fabrication - Complete electronics / electro-optics projects in support of key platforms in technology areas such as focal plane array photonics, inspection technologies, sensor manufacturing, and sonar transformer manufacturing. - Continue to develop and transition electronics and electro-optics manufacturing technology improvements that result in… Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603680N/1050/a1 ### Metals Processing and Fabrication - Complete metals processing and fabrication projects in support of key platforms in areas such as robotic and automation, inspection technologies, metal forming, process flow optimization, fabrication mobility/agility, surface preparation, and machine learning. - Continue to develop and transition metals processing and fabrication… Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603680N/1050/a2 ## 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/0603680N. ## Source & machine access - **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Navy RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0603680N project 1050 (PB PB2027). - **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0603680N")`. *HitchAI is an independent intelligence service, not affiliated with the U.S. Department of Defense. Budget figures are requests/estimates, not obligations.*