What project 0486 buys
TacMobile is the Ground Station that brings Enterprise Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) to the Maritime Patrol and Reconnaissance Force (MPRF) community. TacMobile is a long-running, multi-year acquisition program that provides Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence (C4I) for Navy's MPRF. From within Tactical Operations Centers (TOC) at well-supported airfields, TacMobile provides theater Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) and Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance (ISR) commanders a common tactical picture while providing pre-flight and post-flight support to manned and unmanned MPRF aircraft. From within Mobile Tactical Operations Centers (MTOC), TacMobile supports manned MPRF aircraft at the tactical edge of operations. TacMobile Fly-Away Kits (FAK) support manned MPRF aircraft in short-duration expeditionary settings. Services provided include analysis and correlation of diverse sensor information; data management support; command decision aids; rapid data communication; mission planning, evaluation and reach-back dissemination of surveillance data and threat alerts to operational users ashore and afloat, and to the Maritime Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance Environment. The TacMobile program uses an evolutionary development strategy consisting of Capability Packages to meet new and emergent Fleet requirements, while retaining current capabilities. These capability packages consist of a three-phase approach: Capability Package One (CP-1) which addresses SECRET domain only (planned fielding in FY 2026); Capability Package Two (CP-2) meets the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) (Initial Operational Capability (IOC) in FY 2028); and Capability Package Three (CP-3) will meet full Capability Production Document (CPD) requirements. These Capability Packages are planned and resourced to support the MPRF Family of Systems aircraft: P-8A Poseidon aircraft modernization and upgrades; and Advanced Airborne Sensor (AAS). In FY 2027, Navy Tactical Data Network (NTDN) Expeditionary work will be completed, providing CP-2 with TS/SCI network connectivity not reliant on a Point of Presence (PoP), but rather able to leverage existing SATCOM paths to disseminate P-8A sensor data.
- Product Development
- Test and Evaluation
- Management Services
Project 0486 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 | 12.2 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 13.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 10.3 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 10.7 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 10.8 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 10.8 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 11.0 |
1 accomplishment / planned program
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. Each 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.
Installation of the CP-2 engineering development model (EDM) to meet fleet requirements to support Higher Than Secret (HTS) operations with expeditionary HTS shelters. EDM hardware includes: -Unclassified/Secret GENSER C4I hardware and software for burning and extracting P-8A Mission Systems and Combat Systems media, sensor data, and…
Read the FY2027 plan →Named performers on project 0486
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.