What project 3159 buys
3159 Naval Integrated Fire Control (NIFC) Systems Engineering Integration and Test (SEI&T) project is a systems engineering capability-based integration effort to extend the Naval Integrated Air and Missile Defense battlespace out to the maximum kinematic range of our weapons for the air, surface warfare missions. This includes targets beyond the detection range of the shooter. The NIFC project exploits capabilities inherent in existing systems, optimizes current and emerging technologies in component system upgrades, integrates them together, and performs kill chain tests, forming an interoperable System of Systems (SoS) to maximize future defense capabilities. As directed by OPNAV, the project is focused on SEI&T efforts to integrate the From The Sea (FTS) family of kill chains which includes a sensor-data/track-data network, one or more distributed sensors, a weapon, and a weapon control system. NIFC Inc 3 introduces other networks and sensors coordinating with other DoW activities as appropriate. NIFC Increment 3 includes SEIT activities across a broad range of systems and architectures, developmental test and fielding, and the design of effects chain architectures (referred to as ARC) within various system configurations.
- Product Development
- Test and Evaluation
- Management Services
Project 3159 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 | 28.4 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 28.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 30.1 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 27.7 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 26.9 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 26.6 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 27.2 |
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.
As the NAVY lead for CSSN Project the NIFC team will execute Joint TrackExs and two Live Fire Events in FY27 in conjunction with ARMY and MDA. Test events to occur at White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) late FY27.
Read the FY2027 plan →Continue system of systems (SoS) activities for NIFC Inc 3 advanced kill chains. Continue development of system documents for Increased sensor and network participation to meet fleet needs supporting warfighting in complex Naval Distributed Maritime Operations (DMO) environments. Continue Modeling and Simulations (M&S) for evaluation of…
Read the FY2027 plan →Named performers on project 3159
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.