What project 0728 buys
The details of Program Element 0604280N, Project 0728 for NMT are classified SECRET//NOFORN and are submitted to Congress in the classified budget justification books. Technology Insertion, studies and implementation is necessary for military satellite communications systems development to support emerging technologies for Satellite Communications (SATCOM) programs. This project funds the testing and integration of the modem and processing equipment enabling a Non-Geostationary Orbit (NGSO) system to operate on Navy submarines. The project awarded a contract to a Prime Mission Product (PMP) vendor to develop and test hardware and software to produce an Engineering Development Model (EDM). Increase of $43.479M from FY 2026 to FY 2027 will support major development milestones in FY 2027. FY 2027 funding will support mandated Navy Multiband Terminal (NMT) software and hardware system upgrades required for interoperability with the Evolved Strategic SATCOM (ESS) constellation. In addition, FY 2027 funding will support Wideband Anti-Jam Modem System (WAMS) development, testing, integration, and certification efforts. This provides Resilient Command, Control, and Communications (RC3) and Distributed Maritime Operations (DMO) capability. FY 2027 funding also supports the SATCOM NGSO Technology Insertion Critical Design Review (CDR), Test Readiness Review (TRR), and Engineering Development Model (EDM) vendor design testing, preparing for Production Representative Asset (PRA) delivery in FY 2028.
- Product Development
- Support
- Test and Evaluation
- Management Services
Project 0728 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 27.4 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 42.6 |
| FY2027 | Request | 95.9 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 72.1 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 47.2 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 44.2 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 19.0 |
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. Each describe FY2027 work in enough detail to have their own page; the rest are shown here in full. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
The details of Program Element 0604280N, Project 0728 for NMT are classified SECRET//NOFORN and are submitted to Congress in the classified budget justification books.
Read the FY2027 plan →Complete maturation of the design and proceed to a Critical Design Review (CDR). As a result of the CDR, the vendor will deliver an Engineering Development Model (EDM) which will support testing to show performance and finalize production details. Test Readiness Review (TRR) is planned 30 days after delivery of an EDM to begin the design…
Read the FY2027 plan →Named performers on project 0728
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.