What project 2329 buys
This budget reflects the Department of Defense certified Component Cost Position of the restructured Joint Precision Approach and Landing System (JPALS) program that funds the developmental, testing, and integration activities to implement and field JPALS ship systems that deliver the primary precision approach, landing, on-deck inertial alignment, surveillance, and auto-land capability for current and future low observable manned and unmanned platforms onboard all CVN and LHA/D ships. JPALS provides for development, integration, installation, and test of JPALS on CVN and LHA/D ships in accordance with the Joint Requirements Oversight Council (JROC) May 2018 approved JPALS Capability Production Document (CPD). JPALS will continue to invest in software development in direct support of precision approach and auto-land capabilities for the F-35B/C, MQ-25A, and future air platforms. JPALS effort includes addressing broadened CyberSecurity requirements to remain compliant with software CyberSecurity directives and Information Assurance mandates. Additionally, costs are to enhance Precision Ship-Relative Navigation (PS-RN) for Navy and Marine Corps unmanned, and potentially manned, platforms, via the Landing Autonomous Navigation Technology for Enhanced Recovery to Navy Ships (LANTERNS) Future Naval Capabilities (FNC) and other system improvements.
- Product Development
- Support
- Test and Evaluation
- Management Services
Project 2329 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 | 4.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 34.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 2.5 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 2.5 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 2.6 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 2.8 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 2.9 |
5 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. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
FY2027 planned work Continue obsolescence ECP development work.
FY2026 to FY2027 change Decrease of $.327M from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to the transition and proper phasing of Legacy JPALS to JPALS V2.
FY2026 plans — current year Continue obsolescence ECP development work.
FY2027 planned work Provide technical support of JPALS system integration for MQ-25 ship/shore-based testing.
FY2026 to FY2027 change Decrease of $.658M from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to proper phasing of Legacy reductions.
FY2026 plans — current year Finalization of JPALS system integration lab at Patuxent River for MQ-25 ship/shore-based testing.
FY2027 planned work Continue support of the JPALS UDB operations for F-35 aircraft.
FY2026 to FY2027 change Decrease of $.293M from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to proper phasing of Legacy reductions.
FY2026 plans — current year Continue support of the JPALS UDB operations for F-35 aircraft.
FY2026 to FY2027 change Decrease of $6.326M from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to the realignment of funding from Project Unit 2329 to 9035 to separate the JPALS V2 funding from Legacy JPALS.
FY2026 plans — current year Begin Agnostic Data Link integration to provide an alternative datalink solution into JPALS GPS-based landing systems aboard CVN and LH type ships. Create performance spec, ICDs, and IRSs, and validate interface with LANTERNS FNC radio system. Begin to modify JPALS Air Algorithms to allow for use of P(Y) Code GPS data with M-Code Aircraft data to compute a JPALS Solution, demonstrate algorithms with JPALS Test Bed, update TDP GFI for air platform use.
FY2026 to FY2027 change Decrease of $23.908M from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to the realignment of funding from Project Unit 2329 to 9035 to separate the JPALS V2 funding from Legacy JPALS.
FY2026 plans — current year Award of product development contract and kickoff event; conduct System Requirements Review (SRR) and Sub System Design Review (SSDR), establish requirements baseline and identify deltas to allocated baseline, identify Modeling and Simulation (M&S) and software update scope against product baseline, and begin preparation for Preliminary Design Review (PDR).
Named performers on project 2329
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.