What project 0394 buys
(Diving - N97) This project develops systems to support submarine escape and rescue missions, and conventional diver operations. Diver operations include ship husbandry, salvage/recovery, and submarine rescue operations to support national, as well as Navy, needs around the world. Modern certifiable diving systems that ensure diver safety and allow maximum work efficiency will replace currently antiquated systems. R&D will be performed in the areas of diver tools to improve work efficiency, tracking and navigation, visual enhancement, contaminated water diving, diver environmental protection, and recompression chamber technology. (Submarine Escape and Rescue - N97) The modernization of Submarine Rescue System (SRS) is required to address known reliability and obsolescence issues and support the planned minimum 15 year system service life extension prior to SRS's end of life and inoperability. (Diving - N95) This project develops systems to support Naval Expeditionary Combat Command Diving. Operations include salvage/recovery and underwater construction to support national, as well as Navy, needs around the world. Modern certifiable diving systems that ensure diver safety and allow maximum work efficiency will replace currently antiquated systems. R&D will be performed in the areas of diver tools to improve work efficiency, tracking and navigation, visual enhancement, contaminated water diving, diver environmental protection and recompression chamber technology. Requirements: Operational Requirements Document, Revision 2 for Submarine Rescue Diving and Recompression System (SRDRS) Serial 694-87-06 dtd 6 June 2006 COMSUBLANT/COMSUBPAC OPORD 2137 (Submarine Rescue) dtd 5 Aug 2014 Mission Needs Statement, M016402-92 Survivability, OPNAV N87 ltr Serial N87/5U659719 dtd 30 Jan 1995
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Project 0394 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 12.1 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 6.2 |
| FY2027 | Request | 13.4 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 6.1 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 5.6 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 5.1 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 5.2 |
3 accomplishments / planned programs
The R-2A exhibit — the only level of the budget that describes work that has not happened yet. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only, no five-year plan. 1 of them describes FY2027 work in enough detail to have its own page; the rest are shown here in full. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
Initiate the next generation submarine rescue system design and development to ensure the Navy retains the critical capability. This effort will be executed with the award and funding of a multiyear contract to enable the development of the next generation rescue system. Continue execution of critical technologies necessary to support…
Read the FY2027 plan →FY2027 planned work * Deep Sea Expeditionary No "D" (DSEND) Suit: Continue development and start testing of a 600 fsw suit. This will allow Navy divers to work at significant depths in a self-propelled, flexible suit without the need to perform lengthy decompression or be at risk for decompression sickness. * Authorized Navy Use (ANU) Item Testing / Retesting: Testing of life support and other underwater systems for inclusion on the ANU list. This will include both testing of existing ANU items to ensure continued compliance with configuration management and quality or the testing of new items that are desired by fleet divers. * Prehensor Development: Develop prehensors for arm appendages of DSEND suit to…
FY2026 to FY2027 change Decrease of -0.366M based on rephasing FY 2027 efforts into FY 2028 and FY 2029.
FY2026 plans — current year * Deep Sea Expeditionary No "D" (DSEND) Suit: Continue development and start testing of a 600 fsw suit. This will allow Navy divers to work at significant depths in a self-propelled, flexible suit without the need to perform lengthy decompression or be at risk for decompression sickness. * Prehensor Development: Develop prehensors for arm appendages of DSEND suit to improve diver ability to grab and hold. Development to emphacize better ergonimics and human factors design. These prehensors will reduce diver fatigue and allow for better use of diver bottom time. * DiveEar Noise Cancellation: Develop noise cancellation technology for DiveEar ear pieces. This technology will reduce background…
FY2027 planned work Fly Away Mixed Gas (FMGS) System Refresh: Complete protoptype development and conduct unmanned testing of the FMGS UBA. The changes will improve transportability, significantly reduce gas (HeO2) usage, and increase the time available when switching to the emergency gas supply (EGS) and are designed to significantly reduce safety hazards to the divers. FY26 will include initial build of prototype unit.
FY2026 to FY2027 change Decrease of -0.150M based on rephasing FY 2027 efforts into FY 2028 and FY 2029.
FY2026 plans — current year Fly Away Mixed Gas (FMGS) System Refresh: Develop and test an improved FMGS Underwater Breathing Apparatus (UBA) and console to reduce the size of the topside support footprint. The changes will improve transportability, reduce gas (HeO2) usage, and increase the time available when switching to the emergency gas supply (EGS) and are designed to significantly reduce safety hazards to the divers.
Named performers on project 0394
Performers named in the R-3 exhibit under this project. Share is of the project's whole FY2027 R-3 total — the same denominator the program-element split uses, so the two read on one scale and will not sum to 100% when unnamed or government work is in the mix. Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations.