What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 1947 of PE 0604558N. This is the budget justification's own description of work that has not happened yet — the one thing no other level of the budget carries.
-Continue Virginia Class Submarine Undersea Dominance Payload Integration (UDPI) design efforts to modify the current host ship systems in support of launching payloads from multiple different hull/ocean interfaces. -Continue development of Hull, Mechanical & Electrical (HM&E) systems concepts technologies, including obsolescence redesign and performance improvement, for integration into Virginia Class Block VI technical baseline. -Continue transition of products from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Manufacturing Technology Program (MANTECH) and transition of products from ONR Future Naval Capabilties (FNC) Programs. -Continue design, integration and critical item testing of components for Advanced Acoustic Sensors and organic advanced undersea warfare capabilities; -Continue design and integration of host ship modifications to support interaction and hosting of multiple types of UUVs via multiple ocean interfaces; -The continued evaluation, maturation, and integration of these candidate capabilities will support readiness for Block VI construction start. -Finalize preliminary design efforts in support of establishing Block VII technical performance measures -Establish the Block VII technical baseline. -Continue Block VIII concept studies, trade-space definition, and long-term development of HM&E system concept technologies.
Decrease from FY26 to FY27 properly scales non-recurring engineering developmental scope of work planned in FY27.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
-Continue Virginia Class Submarine Undersea Dominance Payload Integration (UDPI) design efforts to modify the current host ship systems in support of launching payloads from multiple different hull/ocean interfaces. -Continue detailed design of Virginia Class Block VI technical baseline efforts; namely, Hull, Mechanical & Electrical (HM&E) systems concepts technologies, including obsolescence redesign and performance improvement efforts -Continue transition of products from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Manufacturing Technology Program (MANTECH) and transition of products from ONR Future Naval Capabilties (FNC) Programs. -Continue design, integration and critical item testing of components for Advanced Acoustic Sensors and organic advanced undersea warfare capabilities; -Continue design and integration of host ship modifications to support interaction and hosting of multiple types of UUVs via multiple ocean interfaces; -Complete Block VII studies, trade-space definition, and long-term development of HM&E system concept technologies. -Continue preliminary design efforts in support of establishing Block VII technical performance measures and providing further definition to the technical baseline. -Continue initial Block VIII concept design, refining initial guidance to support tradespace and capability development efforts.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 202.2 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 187.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 164.8 |
This activity is 88% of project 1947's FY2027 request and 69% of PE 0604558N's. In the request year the activities under a project sum to it exactly; in the current year they under-cover it in about 9% of cases, so an activity's delta can legitimately exceed its parent's and the two must not be compared row to row.
2 activities in project 1947
Every R-2A line of this project, largest FY2027 request first. Linked where the activity has enough of its own narrative to carry a page; the rest are shown in full on the project page.