What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 0831 of PE 0605865N. 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.
This project will fund civilian salaries and operating costs for OPTEVFOR. - Efforts will continue to refine and enhance testing processes and products to increase the value of Operational Test and Evaluation (OT&E). This includes adapting processes and methodologies to ensure they remain relevant for evolving acquisition pathways and agile information technology systems delivering software-defined capabilities. - Maintain ongoing support for the OPNAV N9 Naval Capabilities Integration Process (NCIP). Participate in Navy Concepts of Employment (CONEMPS) working groups and coordinate with Warfighting Development Centers (WDCs) to share data and knowledge. Contribute to the U.S. Fleet Forces and Commander, Pacific Fleet Warfare Capabilities Baseline (USFF/CPF WCB) to support the Navy's assessment of capability across platforms, networks, weapons, and sensors. - Provide analysis of performance across warfare domains to support the Navy's ability to adapt to evolving operational challenges. Continued collaboration across warfare domains will maximize lessons learned, improve testing efficiencies, and deliver timely operational insights to Fleet commanders, WDCs, and acquisition decision makers. - Employ a command framework that synchronizes OPTEVFOR initiatives with current Navy strategic guidance, including the Chief of Naval Operations' U.S. Navy Fighting Instructions and the Enduring Warfighting Objectives. Efforts focus on Fleet engagement, acquisition decision support, command operations, and modernization of supporting infrastructure. These initiatives are enabled by the Cross Service Operational Test Agency (OTA) core test principles and a command-wide metrics program that strengthens the rigor, timeliness, and operational relevance of OT&E.
$1,004K increase is the result of executing the phased military to civilian workforce conversion to stabilize OPTEVFOR manning.
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.
This project will fund civilian salaries and operating costs for OPTEVFOR. - Improve the command's ability to efficiently plan, execute, and report operational test and evaluation (OT&E) through the phased conversion of 58 military billets to 53 civilian billets over a three-year period in order to improve workforce stability, retain technical expertise, and sustain continuity in mission execution. - Continue efforts to enhance and improve test processes and products in support of increasing the value of OT&E. This includes tailoring processes and methods to ensure relevance for adaptive acquisition pathways, agile information technology systems delivering software defined capabilities, and technology insertion projects that continue to mature through alternative procurement and fielding methods. - Continue to support the Naval Capabilities Integration Process (NCIP) effort. Participate in Navy Concepts of Employment (CONEMPS) working groups and coordinate with Warfighting Development Centers (WDCs) to share data and knowledge. Contribute to U.S. Fleet Forces Command and Commander, Pacific Fleet Warfare Capabilities Baseline (USFF/CPF WCB) and Capability Wholeness Assessments to support the Navy's examination of capability across platforms, networks, weapons, and sensors. - Analyze performance across warfare domains and continue collaboration to maximize lessons learned, share resources, and gain efficiencies in testing while providing value to WDCs, Fleet commanders, and acquisition decision makers. - Bridge Fleet to acquisition communication seams through increased engagement with Fleet Commanders, Type Commanders, and WDCs; implementation of Capabilities Based Test and Evaluation (CBTE); and continued refinement of command operations and training. OPTEVFOR aligns command initiatives with current Navy strategic guidance, including the Chief of Naval Operations' U.S. Navy Fighting Instructions and the Navy's Enduring Warfighting Objectives, ensuring operational testing supports Fleet readiness and the delivery of credible warfighting capability. Efforts focus on strengthening Fleet engagement, improving acquisition decision support, enhancing command operations, and modernizing supporting infrastructure to ensure operational testing remains relevant to evolving warfighting requirements. - Expand test capabilities through enhancements to remote test infrastructure and enclave services. These efforts improve OPTEVFOR's ability to conduct classified and distributed testing across operational effectiveness, suitability, and cyber survivability requirements for naval systems, particularly those requiring special handling or higher than SECRET classification.
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 | 27.8 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 28.6 |
| FY2027 | Request | 29.6 |
This activity is 100% of project 0831's FY2027 request and 93% of PE 0605865N'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.
1 activity in project 0831
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.