What project 3069 buys
CH-53K Improvement is required for the establishment of the Heavy Lift program's organic test and evaluation efforts, software development, follow-on capability enhancements, and modernization initiatives. These efforts are focused on advancing the program's technical maturity, validating system performance, and ensuring alignment with operational requirements. Improvements address pre-planned product improvement requirements written into the Capabilities Product Document approved by Joint Requirements Oversight Committee in February 2020. The CH-53K Improvement projects provide near and long-term improvements to the fleet, focusing on documented deficiencies related to mission systems, maintainability and reliability, and obsolescence issues.
- Product Development
- Support
- Test and Evaluation
- Management Services
Project 3069 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 | 52.2 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 135.4 |
| FY2027 | Request | 139.3 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 95.0 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 91.6 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 92.6 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 94.2 |
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.
Continue efforts to develop, test, and certify new capabilities, to include software development and mitigation of risk due to obsolescence of components to support fleet and production aircraft requirements. Specific activities planned in support of the Improvements program include: further air vehicle envelope expansion, increased…
Read the FY2027 plan →Continue and maintain the establishment of the government Test and Evaluation team, and associated support functions, to facilitate follow-on capability expansion and development of new requirements. Efforts supported include pre-planned product improvements, reliability improvements, risk reduction software development, and testing…
Read the FY2027 plan →Named performers on project 3069
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.