# Manufacturing Enterprise/Other

**R-2A activity** of project 1050 — Manufacturing Tech  
**Program element:** 0603680N — Manufacturing Technology Program  
**Component:** U.S. Navy · **Budget Activity:** 3  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603680N/1050/a3  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603680N/1050

## Summary

This activity requests $35.2M in FY2027, 44% of project 1050, up 84% on FY2026. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2026–FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2027 planned work.** - 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.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Budget increase of $16M to support Navy priorities regarding shipbuilding and industrial base improvements in support of Golden Fleet initiatives.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** - 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.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 29.8 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 19.2 |
| FY2027 | Request | 35.2 |

> Prior, current and budget year only — an R-2A activity carries no five-year plan. It sums exactly into its project in the request year and not necessarily in any other.

## Other activities in project 1050

- [Composites Processing and Fabrication](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603680N/1050/a0) — FY2027 16.2
- [Electronics Processing and Fabrication](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603680N/1050/a1) — FY2027 16.2
- [Metals Processing and Fabrication](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603680N/1050/a2) — FY2027 11.5

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Navy RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0603680N project 1050 (PB PB2027). Narrative is the government's own text.
- **No marks, no contractors at this grain** — congressional marks land on the program element and R-3 performers on the project.
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_activity`.

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