What project 1707 buys
The MH-60R/S program pursues upgrades and enhancements that pace the rapidly evolving threat and improve safety-of-flight for its pilots and aircrew. These efforts include improvements to existing sensors, network capabilities, weapon systems, avionics, communications, and navigation systems as well as integration of modern precision guided air-to-ground and air-to-air missiles, fixed-forward and crew-served weapons, the Sensor Operator Console, data-fusion capability, and cUAS. The program is continuously evaluating Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages (DMSMS) and making incremental improvements to various airframe, flight safety, mission systems, training systems and mission-planning systems. The program will continue development of architecture to support integration of secure, over-the-horizon communications in addition to modern en route navigation and terminal approach systems. MH-60R/S research and development initiatives include targeted improvements of the platform's cybersecurity posture, continued development of federated systems to rapidly field new capabilities, and development of Air Launched Effects (ALE). FY 2027 budget request funds the following: 1. System Configuration (SC) capability increases, Modernized Tactical Networks (to include Enhanced Throughput (ET) and Tactical Targeting Network Technology (i.e. mesh networks)), Radar Hardware and Software enhancements in support of Minotaur Family of Systems (MFoS), DMSMS solutions for the Air Vehicle, Mission Systems and Avionics, to include MH-60 Displays, Embedded Global Positioning System(GPS)/Inertial Navigation System (INS), Beyond Line of Sight (BLOS) data transfer, Radar technical refresh, Airborne Low Frequency Sonar (ALFS), Common Datalink (CDL), Interface Unit Automatic Data Processing (IUADP) and Advanced Flight Control Computer obsolescence redesign. Obsolescence issues are expected to impact MH-60 readiness/availability beginning in FY27 and may require interim solutions until the MH-60 SLM development and fielding is completed. 2. Integration of the updated Link 16 Advanced Capabilities software and Tactical Networking (i.e. mesh network) to enable over-the-horizon targeting, enhance target sorting, and serve as a force multiplier in network enabled and long-range maritime targeting weapon engagements. 3.
- Product Development
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- Test and Evaluation
- Management Services
Project 1707 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 | 59.1 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 64.8 |
| FY2027 | Request | 56.4 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 43.3 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 39.1 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 33.3 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 34.2 |
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.
Continue activities for System Configuration development. Continue integration and testing of the interim EGI solution for M-code. Continue development efforts for MH-60 Air Vehicle, Avionics and Mission Systems DMSMS solutions to include AFCC, Radar, Acoustic Processor (AP) and Software Defined Sonobuoy Receiver (SDSR), and CDL…
Read the FY2027 plan →FY2027 planned work Continue System Configuration testing (SC28 and SC30), Avionics Obsolescence, MIDS JTRS Advanced Capabilities, and Radar Tech Refresh in support of Minotaur test and evaluation activities. Obsolescence Solution test and evaluation planning. Continue federated system testing. Identify and develop test infrastructure and support building initial test development requirements for SLM efforts.
FY2026 plans — current year Continue System Configuration testing (SC26 and SC28), Avionics Obsolescence, MIDS JTRS Advanced Capabilities Enhanced Throughput (ET), and Radar Tech Refresh in support of Minotaur test and evaluation activities. Obsolescence Solution test and evaluation planning. Continue Radar Tech Refresh in support of Minotaur and federated system testing.
FY2027 planned work Continue to provide MH-60 engineering support, integrated logistics support, government furnished equipment, support equipment, program management, contract support services, and travel to support Radar Tech Refresh, System Configuration activities, CDL, AFCC, Acoustics, CMPC, and Tactical Data Links, to include data review, deficiency identification and correction, and capability fielding plans. Continue requirements definition, solution analysis and initial design efforts for Mission Systems, Avionics and Air Vehicle obsolescence mitigation efforts and Radar upgrades in support of MFoS capabilities and third-party applications. Continue MH-60 Cyber Engineering and Mid-Life Block Upgrade…
FY2026 to FY2027 change Decrease of $0.264M reflects the realignment of funds for higher Navy priority requirements.
FY2026 plans — current year Continue to provide MH-60 engineering support, integrated logistics support, government furnished equipment, support equipment, program management, contract support services, and travel to support Radar Tech Refresh, System Configuration activities, and Tactical Data Links, to include data review, deficiency identification and correction, and capability fielding plans. Continue requirements definition, solution analysis and initial design efforts for Mission Systems, Avionics and Air Vehicle obsolescence mitigation efforts and Radar upgrades in support of MFoS capabilities and third-party applications. Continue MH-60 Cyber Engineering and Mid-Life Block Upgrade Architectural analyses and…
Named performers on project 1707
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.