# Aircraft Launch & Recovery Equipment (ALRE) Modernization

**R-2A activity** of project 2232 — CV/CVN Launch and Recover  
**Program element:** 0604512N — Shipboard Aviation Systems  
**Component:** U.S. Navy · **Budget Activity:** 5  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604512N/2232/a0  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604512N

## Summary

This activity requests $12.6M in FY2027, 41% of project 2232, down 22% on FY2026. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2026–FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2027 planned work.** Continue the developmental enhancements to resolve known and emerging capability shortfalls within the major categories of ALRE to include: VLA, Information Systems, Launcher, Recovery, and ADMACS. Continue development of Gold Disk circuit card test routine software. Continue Visual Landing Aids (VLA) Long Range Line of Sight (LRLS) redesign efforts and conduct LRLS Critical Design Review (CDR) and begin LRLS Prototype Production. Incorporate Fresnel Lens Optical Landing System (IFLOLS) automation software development and testing. To continue software capability drop development efforts for Marine Aviation Data Management System (MADMS).

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Decrease in FY27 due to current MADMS program plan associated with planned software capability drop development.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** Continue the developmental enhancements to resolve known and emerging capability shortfalls within the major categories of ALRE to include: VLA, Information Systems, Launcher, Recovery, and ADMACS. Continue development of Gold Disk circuit card test routine software. Incorporate development efforts for Marine Aviation Data Management System (MADMS) to provide software update drops for new increments of capability to address fleet feedback and cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Conduct MADMS Integration Readiness Review (IRR) and Test Readiness Review (TRR). Continue Visual Landing Aids (VLA) Long Range Line of Sight (LRLS) redesign efforts and conduct LRLS Preliminary Design Review (PDR).

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.4 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 16.1 |
| FY2027 | Request | 12.6 |

> Prior, current and budget year only — an R-2A activity carries no five-year plan. It sums exactly into its project in the request year and not necessarily in any other.

## Other activities in project 2232

- Aircraft Launch & Recovery Equipment (ALRE) Service Life Management Program (SLMP) — FY2027 18.3

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Navy RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0604512N project 2232 (PB PB2027). Narrative is the government's own text.
- **No marks, no contractors at this grain** — congressional marks land on the program element and R-3 performers on the project.
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_activity`.

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