What project 1036 buys
The FY 2026 budget for PU1036 / TETRA program included $0 of discretionary funding and $32,000k of mandatory funding for a total of $32,000K. The mandatory funds supported the development of Lanternfish - a deep Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) supporting Subsea Seabed Warfare (SSW) mission areas. Funding also supports the continuation of the TETRA ROV. TETRA funding supports additional payload design and integration, as well as supporting documentation for platform integration. Bootstrap funding was allocated for system improvement and continued testing. (U) The TETRA program is a continuation of efforts, realigned from Program Element (PE) 0604029N (UUV Core Technologies) Project Unit (PU) 4053 (UxS Platform) to PE 0604028N (Small/Medium Unmanned Undersea Vehicles) PU 1036 (TETRA) in FY25, and also includes payload development addressing emergent operational requirements. The large increase in FY27 is due to increased Fleet requirements for the systems. (U) This is the sole project unit that enables deployment of TETRA, which is an operationally relevant Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) that is launched, and recovered, from submarine torpedo tubes. TETRA is a ROV with the capacity for multiple mission payloads as a key enabler to Subsea Seabed Warfare (SSW) to locate, identify, and provide real-time payload employment to effect objects of interest as identified in the SSW Initial Capabilities Document (ICD). As a tethered system, TETRA will provide real-time operational data back to the platform and enable man-in-the-loop intervention to maximize the efficiency of a sortie. Experimentations will be conducted with Unmanned Undersea Vehicle Squadron One (UUVRON ONE), Special Reconnaissance Team - 2 (SRT 2), and Naval Special Warfare Group 8 (NSWG 8) utilizing government test events, lake testing, and barge tests to provide Fleet and acquisition stakeholders with relevant payload and vehicle employment to inform Concept of Operations (CONOP) and fielding decisions using platforms of opportunity. (U) This project line is utilized for the development, and integration, of payloads into the TETRA ROV. Funding is also required to begin integration into Submarine Warfare Federated Tactical System (SWFTS) to reduce TETRA's stowage footprint.
- Product Development
- Test and Evaluation
Project 1036 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 | 5.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 13.9 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 8.8 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 9.5 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 9.8 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 10.0 |
2 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.
(U) Continued support for installation planning and execution for a TETRA mission. Supporting offload from first TETRA mission. Continuing to investigate west-coast laydown areas to support urgent fleet capability needs as more TETRA Shipsets become available. (U) TETRA will continue to develop, build, integrate, test, and create…
Read the FY2027 plan →FY2027 planned work (U) Continued testing support for TETRA efforts on tactically representative support crafts and test fixtures
FY2026 to FY2027 change The increase from FY26 to FY27 is due to need for testing for TETRA efforts.
FY2026 plans — current year (U) Continued testing support for TETRA efforts on tactically representative support crafts and test fixtures
Named performers on project 1036
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.