What project 3394 buys
The Department of the Navy's unmanned undersea systems portfolio is a multi-faceted approach to address a Joint Emergent Operational Need and enhance capabilities in the Indo-Pacific. The UUV FoS portfolio includes the Orca Extra Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (XLUUV), which features a modular payload bay for current and future systems. To accelerate development of XLUUV capabilities, the Combat Autonomous Maritime Platform (CAMP) project will leverage commercial sources and rapid prototyping through the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU). This effort is complemented by stationary systems like Liberator, a seabed-positioned launcher for deploying various payloads in hard-to-reach areas, and the Hunter payload, which provides advanced mining capabilities for XLUUV platforms. A dedicated test and evaluation branch supports the entire portfolio, managing test programs from contractor testing to operational assessments to ensure the timely delivery of these critical undersea capabilities.
- Product Development
- Support
- Test and Evaluation
- Management Services
Project 3394 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 | 20.9 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 2.6 |
| FY2027 | Request | 124.2 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 52.4 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 39.2 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 38.3 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 39.1 |
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. 2 of them 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.
CAMP XLUUV vendors will complete prototyping projects and the Government will assess the vendors' systems against prototype success criteria along with Fleet feedback. Successful projects will begin engineering tasks for production of Minimal Viable Products and iterative system improvements. Support Engineering will provide technical…
Read the FY2027 plan →Completion of a maintenance plan in addition to the development and approval of a final test plan. Prototype fabrication will be accomplished in Q4FY27. Training on the Liberator system use/maintenance will be performed with fleet sailors in preparation of the demo at sea beginning in Q4FY27.
Read the FY2027 plan →FY2027 planned work No further development of Orca in FY27.
FY2026 to FY2027 change Decrease from $2.605 to $0M due to the removal of all RDTEN funding for the Orca program.
FY2026 plans — current year In January 2026, XLE1 was transferred to Naval Base Ventura County (NBVC) to begin government testing. Boeing has completed production on XLE2 and is targeting April 2026 to deliver the vehicle to the Navy. The program is preparing to conduct a maximum endurance mission with XLE2 after delivery to showcase enhanced vehicle capability. XLE3 is scheduled to be delivered at the end of FY26 and XLE4-5 are scheduled to be delivered in early FY27.