Management, Technical & Intl Supt

This exhibit has been updated to reflect the establishment of the Navy Analytic Office (NAO), which is responsible for the executive oversight of Navy studies and analysis. The NAO was stood up to better align the annual Analytic Agenda to Chief Naval Operation's (CNO) strategic priorities while also providing for study of the more tactical requirements of the Fleet and Navy writ large. The outcome will be synchronized modeling, simulation, assessments, wargames, experiments and exercises providing rich, shared data to support and refine warfighting concepts and to inform budget decisions. The Navy Annual Studies Program supports the Analytic Agenda by providing both the development and use of modeling, simulation and analytically-based warfare, business analyses and analytic tools that provide the basis for decision making with respect to concepts of operations (CONOPS), Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) Systems; warfare systems, and analytical underpinnings/basis for programmatic decisions of the Navy's top leadership regarding their architectures, force structure, and the Navy's core "organize, train, and equip mission" (the warfare and provider Enterprises). The program provides capability-based planning assessment for Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS), conducts analysis to affect warfighting capability trades and enterprise resources, identifies needs, gaps and overlaps, and assesses alternative solutions to Joint needs. The program provides overarching Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution System (PPBES) analyses and guidance for PPBES which provides gap analysis and investment strategy and total obligation authority allocation. It provides independent capability analysis and assists in structuring follow-on Navy analyses. The program coordinates Navy's position for the enhanced planning process and conducts net assessments. It serves as the lead campaign analysis to approve Navy warfare and support requirements. The program supports the Maritime Strategy which charts a course for the Navy, Coast Guard and Marine Corps to work collectively with each other and international partners to prevent crises from occurring, or reacting quickly should one occur to avoid negative impact to the United States.

This project funds two interdependent efforts: developing the next generation of interoperability capabilities to support burden sharing with high-end warfighting nations (including Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, United Kingdom and the United States) and testing warfighter proficiency against high-end targets that emulate complex threats. This project assesses the participating nations' ability to share the burden of NATO Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD), currently filled by US forces in Europe. Engineering analysis and data analytics from sponsored test events are provided to European and Pacific Combatant Commands in direct support of theater Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) priorities. The MTMD Forum addresses challenges associated with integrating maritime Allied Air Defense in Support of Ballistic Missile Defense Operations into joint IAMD command and control. MTMD Forum nations leverage At-Sea Demonstration (ASD) test events, coupled with operational Fleet Exercises (Formidable Shield and Pacific Dragon), to integrate technology and validate national capabilities in operational constructs, supportive of operational force employment. The MTMD Forum encourages national development of systems and practices that enhance protection and defense against the proliferation of short, medium and long-range Ballistic Missile (BM) and Advanced Anti-Ship Cruise Missile (ASCM) threats through the development of interoperable sea-based Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) capability in the near term and also pushes partners to develop future interoperability technologies. The program leverages the full spectrum of capability development, from theoretical work with allied partners to examine future interoperability opportunities to testing in service interoperability in the integrated air and missile defense domain. One of the future technologies that the Forum is leading is the Force Level Open Architecture Technical Standard (FLOATS), a potential replacement or augmentation to traditional Link 16 architectures. The program has already developed four of eight planned data models and is pursuing capability demonstration through the modeling and simulation resources funded through the Forum.

This program provides a systematic and planned approach to improve vital in-house science and technology (S&T) laboratory facilities which are reaching or have reached critical stages of deterioration at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), where the average building age is 70 years old, as of 2025. Critical S&T research cannot be sustained or succeed in deteriorated facilities. World class research can only be accomplished in facilities that are at a minimum "adequate", but preferably "state-of-the-art." Due to their advanced age and deterioration, funds will be used for restoration and modernization efforts in support of NRL's research mission of meeting future technological threats and providing support to the warfighter.

China Strategic Initiative (CSI) became a DoW RDTE program in FY 2014. The CSI program is U.S. Indo-Pacific Command's (INDOPACOM) first Asia Rebalance initiative and provides critical support to planning efforts across the Command addressing Secretary of Defense's # 1 priority. CSI is a command-directed program that provides the Commander, INDOPACOM, and his staff vital support at all levels of planning and decision-making within the INDOPACOM Area Of Responsibility. The CSI program provides: cutting-edge research on adversary approaches to warfare, monitoring and analysis of adversary social media and censorship, unique understanding of effects of U.S. actions at the strategic and operational levels, sponsorship of Track 1.5/2 Strategic Nuclear Dialogue with China, etc. This funding is for a classified effort and details can be provided at a higher classification level. Pacific Multi-Domain Training and Experimentation Capability (PMTEC) is foundational to meeting Commander, USINDOPACOM's high-end warfighting capability, theater force posture, and Ally & Partner (A&P) objectives through the execution of joint experimentation in the Indo-Pacific. The innovative combinations of new technology, capability, and CONOPS in Joint Exercises will enable integration, warfighting assessment, and rapid capability development. PMTEC is the joint synchronizer and integrator by bringing together OSW, Service RDT&E, other government agencies, industry, and academia with Combatant Commands, Service Components, warfighting units, and A&Ps to expedite experimentations of R&D projects/prototypes and to facilitate more rapid modernization and interoperability. The Joint Experimentation Program (JExP) is a theater-wide campaign of joint experiments to inform and strengthen the ability of joint and combined forces to execute all-domain operations in contested environments. JExP is focused on both what the U.S. and allies can do to protect partners subjected to military aggression, and also what those partners can do to defend themselves against said aggression. To determine the readiness of developmental systems to operate within the contested environment, JExP consists of three experimentation categories/pillars: a. Joint Experimentation within Exercises b. Stand-alone Experimentation c.

In partnership with the Critical Infrastructure Defense Analysis Center (CIDAC), the Department of the Navy (DON) will support the Mission Assurance (MA) program in performing mission analysis, engineering and commercial infrastructure network interdependency analysis, MA assessments, information enterprise design, implementation, and support, and defense industrial base supply chain network and related analysis. These efforts will provide broad leadership, best practices, research, development, coordination, and support to Department of War (DoW) Components around specific focus areas to drive solution-oriented efficiencies, collaboration, and results that benefit the entire DoW MA enterprise.

Navy Postgraduate School (NPS) research and analysis activities serve as a focal point, stimulus, and major source of strategic, tactical and operational thought within the Navy communities. These efforts generate strategic and operational alternatives, tactical imperatives, quantitative analyses, technical developments and assessments, and political-military assessments. Also, provide recommendations to the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), Fleet Commanders and numbered Fleet Commanders regarding the formulation and execution of maritime options for the President of the United States. Research will be conducted that will enhance graduate education for Naval Officers and potentially provide students with areas of studies for theses and faculty projects. These research activities also serve as a means for OPNAV Resource Sponsors and Major Commands to have analysis and decision support research conducted in the uses of the applied, soft, and hard sciences in solving diverse and complex resource allocation and strategic issues facing the Navy today and envisioned in the future.

Naval War College (NWC) research, analysis and gaming activities serve as a focal point, stimulus, and major source of strategic and operational thought within the Navy, Joint and Interagency communities. These efforts generate strategic and operational alternatives, tactical imperatives, quantitative analysis, war gaming, political-military assessments, and provide recommendations to the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), Fleet Commanders and numbered Fleet Commanders regarding the formulation and execution of maritime options for the President of the United States.

Provides funding for program management, execution, and support activities to implement a broad range of cooperative naval Research and Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) initiatives to improve coalition interoperability, harmonize U.S. Navy requirements with allied and friendly nations and identify cooperative international opportunities. The funding is used to develop approaches to international cooperation consistent with combatant commanders (COCOMs), Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), and Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) priorities in the maritime domain. Various cooperative RDT&E programs, projects and exchanges are pursued to identify cooperative acquisition programs, enhance Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) efforts, fill capability gaps, improve US/coalition interoperability, and standardize defense capabilities with international partners. Such efforts have resulted in: 1. Negotiating and developing approximately 57 international RDT&E Agreements annually with allied and friendly nations; 2. Executing Information Exchange Annexes (IEAs) with foreign partners; 3. Improving IEA information dissemination with allied and friendly countries and within Department of the Navy (DON); 4. Coordinating Navy inputs to the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (OUSD) Acquisition and Sustainment (A&S) Foreign Comparative Test (FCT) Program, and Coalition Warfare Program (CWP) as well as the DON Technology Transfer Security Assistance Review Boards (TTSARB). 5. Representing the U.S. Navy in Office of the Secretary of War (OSW) directed Armaments Cooperation Forums, including the Conference of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Armaments Directors' groups (NATO Naval Armaments Group (NNAG)), and Senior National Representative (SNR); 6. Funding of various international RDT&E support databases including Technical Project Officer (TPO), International Agreement Generators, Information/Data Exchange Agreements, and Project Agreements/Memorandums of Understanding; 7. Funding for Engineering and Scientist Exchange Program (ESEP).