What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 1050 of PE 0603680N. 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.
- 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 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 advanced manufacturing enterprise and sustainment technology projects in support of key platforms in areas such as inspection technologies, additive manufacturing, coatings, model-based engineering, digital measurement, modeling and simulation, and digital process optimization. - Initiate Repair Technology (RepTech) thrust to develop, optimize, and transition repair and sustainment technologies for key naval platforms at depots and logistics centers. At the project level, initiate approximately 3 projects in sustainment technology once FY27 planning is complete. - Initiate advanced manufacturing enterprise and sustainment technology projects in support of key platforms in areas such as shipboard sensors, high pressure gas generation, inspection technologies, inspection technologies, shipboard drilling, digital process optimization, modeling and simulation, and coatings. -Initiate projects in support of Golden Fleet initiatives.
Budget increase of $16M to support Navy priorities regarding shipbuilding and industrial base improvements in support of Golden Fleet initiatives.
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.
- Complete energetic manufacturing technology projects in support of key platforms in areas such as supply chain optimization and advanced energetics manufacturing, post-processing, critical chemicals, additive manufacturing, process flow optimization, modeling and simulation, robotics and automation, and acoustic mixing, and advanced energetic manufacturing. - Complete advanced manufacturing enterprise technology projects in support of key platforms in areas such as coatings, directed energy, digital measurement, process flow optimization, surface preparation, and digital process optimization. - Continue to develop and transition advanced manufacturing enterprise technology improvements that result in expanded throughput, affordability, and enhanced capability for key platforms: VCS/CLB, DDG 51, CVN 78, and F-35. - Continue advanced manufacturing enterprise technology projects in support of key platforms in areas such as inspection technologies, additive manufacturing, coatings, model-based engineering, process flow optimization, digital measurement, modeling and simulation, and digital process optimization. - Initiate advanced manufacturing enterprise technology projects in support of key platforms in areas such as inspection technologies, Industry 4.0, digital process optimization, additive manufacturing, modeling and simulation, and coatings.
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 | 29.8 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 19.2 |
| FY2027 | Request | 35.2 |
This activity is 44% of project 1050's FY2027 request and 44% of PE 0603680N'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.
4 activities in project 1050
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.