# Navy Studies & Analysis

**R-2A activity** of project 2221 — JT Mission Assessment Studies  
**Program element:** 0605853N — Management, Technical & Intl Supt  
**Component:** U.S. Navy · **Budget Activity:** 6  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605853N/2221/a0  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605853N/2221

## Summary

This activity requests $21.7M in FY2027, 88% of project 2221, up 3.1% 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 to develop, update and maintain detailed level Navy Standard scenarios based on Defense Planning Guidance, alternative scenarios in support of Defense Review guidance, Joint studies, Navy resource analyses, analytic baselines for the Major combat operation, execute analysis of designated Defense Planning Scenarios and their respective Multi-Service Force Deployment Plans, maintain a framework and common set of processes to ensure that essential elements of warfare analyses are defined and traceable to government approved source material, develop investment strategy recommendations and assessments for Program Review and Program Objective Memorandum - Continue to develop scenarios and operational concepts based on government inputs that are sufficiently detailed for use in naval and joint campaign analysis, provide analytically based decision recommendations to Chief of Naval Operations for both warfighting and support areas. - Continue to perform rigorous, time critical naval and joint campaign and mission-level analyses based on modeling and simulation. - Continue to conduct Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance, Meteorological and oceanographic systems assessments to determine the optimal mix of sensors, platforms, processing, analysis and fusion disposition and intelligence preparation of the environment - Continue to lead campaign analysis for Office of the Chief of Naval Operations and Navy's participation in OSW/Joint Staff analytic agenda, baseline development, and collection of data, develop new analytic models and techniques for informing resource allocation decisions; conduct all campaign and warfare mission-level analyses and develop investment strategies, develop medical and support Navy Medical Program decisions. - Continue to develop and improve the Navy's analytic agendas and resource-allocation decision making by refining the linkages between cost and performance-modeled programs. - Continue to focus on integrated analysis capabilities that cut across business and program accounts. Specific efforts address cyber warfare and security, optimizing the training pipeline, integrating ship maintenance and operations price performance models, and improving mission- and campaign-level Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance models and representations. - Continue to conduct ship, boat, and unmanned marine vehicle concept studies in preparation for Capabilities Based Assessments and Analysis of Alternatives. Studies will be performed to support future recapitalization of Surface Combatants, Amphibious Ships, Carriers, Auxiliary Ships and other program requirements. - Continue to collaborate with Warfare Systems design experts to perform analysis at the ship and fleet level. - Continue to conduct future force structure concept formulation. Areas to be examined include interoperability concepts, force architecture impact studies, and operational employment concept studies- Utilize the LCS driver tree framework to assess the significance of different variables that may impact the number of LCSs to support operational requirements, develop advanced analytic models using machine learning techniques and Monte Carlo simulation based on the LCS Plan-2-Perform (P2P) driver tree. - Develop a prescriptive analytics model to determine the cost-minimizing driver levels to achieve a greatly increased number of mission ready LCS while reducing unplanned down days. Assess costs associated with various combinations of driver levels that would achieve target levels of performance. - Support development stages of a Digital Program Objective Memorandum tool and inflation adjustment. The Digital POM is a holistic, end-to-end effort intended to maximize Naval Power by modernizing and optimizing the Navy's investment decision processes and technologies. -Establishment of the Analytic Master Plan Tool Development in support of the Naval Force Design.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** No significant change.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** - Continue to develop, update and maintain detailed level Navy Standard scenarios based on Defense Planning Guidance, alternative scenarios in support of Defense Review guidance, Joint studies, Navy resource analyses, analytic baselines for the Major combat operation, execute analysis of designated Defense Planning Scenarios and their respective Multi-Service Force Deployment Plans, maintain a framework and common set of processes to ensure that essential elements of warfare analyses are defined and traceable to government approved source material, develop investment strategy recommendations and assessments for Program Review and Program Objective Memorandum - Continue to develop scenarios and operational concepts based on government inputs that are sufficiently detailed for use in naval and joint campaign analysis, provide analytically based decision recommendations to Chief of Naval Operations for both warfighting and support areas. - Continue to perform rigorous, time critical naval and joint campaign and mission-level analyses based on modeling and simulation. - Continue to conduct Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance, Meteorological and oceanographic systems assessments to determine the optimal mix of sensors, platforms, processing, analysis and fusion disposition and intelligence preparation of the environment - Continue to lead campaign analysis for Office of the Chief of Naval Operations and Navy's participation in OSW/Joint Staff analytic agenda, baseline development, and collection of data, develop new analytic models and techniques for informing resource allocation decisions; conduct all campaign and warfare mission-level analyses and develop investment strategies, develop medical and support Navy Medical Program decisions. - Continue to develop and improve the Navy's analytic agendas and resource-allocation decision making by refining the linkages between cost and performance-modeled programs. - Continue to focus on integrated analysis capabilities that cut across business and program accounts. Specific efforts address cyber warfare and security, optimizing the training pipeline, integrating ship maintenance and operations price performance models, and improving mission- and campaign-level Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance models and representations. - Continue to conduct ship, boat, and unmanned marine vehicle concept studies in preparation for Capabilities Based Assessments and Analysis of Alternatives. Studies will be performed to support future recapitalization of Surface Combatants, Amphibious Ships, Carriers, Auxiliary Ships and other program requirements. - Continue to collaborate with Warfare Systems design experts to perform analysis at the ship and fleet level. - Continue to conduct future force structure concept formulation. Areas to be examined include interoperability concepts, force architecture impact studies, and operational employment concept studies- Utilize the LCS driver tree framework to assess the significance of different variables that may impact the number of LCSs to support operational requirements, develop advanced analytic models using machine learning techniques and Monte Carlo simulation based on the LCS Plan-2-Perform (P2P) driver tree. - Develop a prescriptive analytics model to determine the cost-minimizing driver levels to achieve a greatly increased number of mission ready LCS while reducing unplanned down days. Assess costs associated with various combinations of driver levels that would achieve target levels of performance. - Support development stages of a Digital Program Objective Memorandum tool and inflation adjustment. The Digital POM is a holistic, end-to-end effort intended to maximize Naval Power by modernizing and optimizing the Navy's investment decision processes and technologies. -Establishment of the Analytic Master Plan Tool Development in support of the Naval Force Design.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 21.5 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 21.1 |
| FY2027 | Request | 21.7 |

> 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 2221

- Joint Mission Assessment Studies — FY2027 2.9

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Navy RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0605853N project 2221 (PB PB2027). Narrative is the government's own text.
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