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Modeling and Simulation Support

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What it is
Modeling and Simulation Support — a research & development program run by Navy.
What changed
-$8.54M FY25→26
Who gets it
No award linkage at high confidence.

Budget Figures

FY24 Actuals
$10.7M
FY25 Total
$20.9M
FY26 Request
$12.4M
FY25→26 Change
-$8.54M

FY2026 award data is a partial year — USASpending awards are reported on a rolling basis and the fiscal year does not close until September 30. why partial FY2026 data? →

Budget Trajectory
FY24: $10.7MFY25: $20.9MFY26: $12.4MFY24FY25FY26
FY24
$10.7M
FY25
$20.9M
FY26
$12.4M
Decade view — each figure cites its own President's Budget edition
FY2015 actuals — PB2017 editionFY2016 actuals — PB2018 editionFY2017 actuals — PB2019 editionFY2018 actuals — PB2020 editionFY2019 actuals — PB2021 editionFY2020 actuals — PB2022 editionFY2021 actuals — PB2023 editionFY2022 actuals — PB2024 editionFY2023 actuals — PB2025 editionFY2024 actuals — PB2026 editionFY2016 enacted — PB2017 editionFY2017 enacted — PB2018 editionFY2018 enacted — PB2019 editionFY2019 enacted — PB2020 editionFY2020 enacted — PB2021 editionFY2021 enacted — PB2022 editionFY2022 enacted — PB2023 editionFY2023 enacted — PB2024 editionFY2024 enacted — PB2025 editionFY2025 enacted — PB2026 editionFY2017 request — PB2017 editionFY2018 request — PB2018 editionFY2019 request — PB2019 editionFY2020 request — PB2020 editionFY2021 request — PB2021 editionFY2022 request — PB2022 editionFY2023 request — PB2023 editionFY2024 request — PB2024 editionFY2025 request — PB2025 editionFY2026 request — PB2026 editionFY15FY26

● actuals (line)  ·  ○ enacted  ·  ◇ request — gaps are editions the program is absent from, never interpolated.

SeriesFY15FY16FY17FY18FY19FY20FY21FY22FY23FY24FY25FY26
Actuals$4.56M$4.58M$4.53M$5.04M$6.82M$11.7M$8.49M$9.48M$9.15M$10.7M
Enacted$4.76M$4.71M$5.24M$7.10M$12.1M$8.68M$9.77M$9.44M$11.0M$20.9M
Request$4.71M$5.24M$7.10M$7.12M$8.68M$9.77M$9.44M$11.0M$10.9M$12.4M

blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.

Asked vs spent: the PB2020 book requested $7.12M for FY2020; the PB2022 book reports $11.7M actually spent — $4.55M above the request.

Program Lineage

No predecessor/successor lineage was recorded for this program element — no FY-to-FY transfer into or out of this line was stated in the ingested J-books, and none was inferred from the program structure.

Description

Mission Congressional Adds

Congressional add projects not included in other efforts.

Mission Modeling & Simulation Support

This Program Element supports activities and projects conducted by the Navy Modeling and Simulation (M&S) Office (NMSO). It enables technical and management initiatives that bring organization, focus, and efficiency to the development and use of M&S throughout the Navy and the Department of the Navy (DON). NMSO provides a central organization for the formulation and implementation of policy and guidance in M&S and represents Navy interests in Department of Defense (DoD), Joint, and other agency initiatives. It funds efforts to define and coordinate Enterprise Navy M&S policy, execution, and guidance to evolve an interoperable and reusable core M&S capability consistent with the DoD's technical frameworks across the Future Years Defense Program (FYDP). Navy M&S priorities include interoperability and composability, effective capability use and reuse, and the incorporation of Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) products to help determine the networks, infrastructure, and data needed to support Enterprise Navy M&S capabilities. These leverage M&S standards, information systems, virtual environments, and collaborative design and development systems that support analysis, acquisition, training, and warfighting decision-making. NMSO's efforts are organized around three product areas: (1) Core Services: This activity provides leadership and essential planning, program and financial management, and execution of NMSO efforts as well as coordination with the other Services, the Office of Secretary of Defense (OSD), the Joint Staff, and other agencies. It also oversees initiatives to develop, promulgate, and track the policies and procedures necessary to support the creation of a robust and credible capability to create synthetic environments, accurately represent platforms and systems, predict outcomes, and provide inputs to Naval decision-makers and operational users. (2) Community Services: This activity provides M&S community-wide services, digital ecosystems, and technical exchanges; M&S plans and standards; and verification, validation, and accreditation (VV&A) handbooks and codes of best practice. It also develops M&S procurement guidance, digital engineering strategic goals, and supports M&S discovery and reuse capabilities across the DON and Navy M&S communities. (3) Community Experiments and Prototypes: This activity develops and executes experiments and prototypes focused on the advancement of M&S capabilities and technologies to increase M&S efficiency and effectiveness in its application across the Navy Enterprise.

Mission Modeling & Simulation

This Program Element supports activities and projects conducted by the Navy Modeling and Simulation (M&S) Office (NMSO). It enables technical and management initiatives that bring organization, focus, and efficiency to the development and use of M&S throughout the Navy and the Department of the Navy (DON). NMSO provides a central organization for the formulation and implementation of policy and guidance in M&S and represents Navy interests in Department of Defense (DoD), Joint, and other agency initiatives. It funds efforts to define and coordinate Enterprise Navy M&S policy, execution, and guidance to evolve an interoperable and reusable core M&S capability consistent with the DoD's technical frameworks across the Future Years Defense Program (FYDP). Navy M&S priorities include interoperability and composability, effective capability use and reuse, and the incorporation of Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) products to help determine the networks, infrastructure, and data needed to support Enterprise Navy M&S capabilities. These leverage M&S standards, information systems, virtual environments, and collaborative design and development systems that support analysis, acquisition, training, and warfighting decision-making. NMSO's efforts are organized around three product areas: (1) Core Services: This activity provides leadership and essential planning, program and financial management, and execution of NMSO efforts as well as coordination with the other Services, the Office of Secretary of Defense (OSD), the Joint Staff, and other agencies. It also oversees initiatives to develop, promulgate, and track the policies and procedures necessary to support the creation of a robust and credible capability to create synthetic environments, accurately represent platforms and systems, predict outcomes, and provide inputs to Naval decision-makers and operational users. (2) Community Services: This activity provides M&S community-wide services, digital ecosystems, and technical exchanges; M&S plans and standards; and verification, validation, and accreditation (VV&A) handbooks and codes of best practice. It also develops M&S procurement guidance, digital engineering strategic goals, and supports M&S discovery and reuse capabilities across the DON and Navy M&S communities. (3) Community Experiments and Prototypes: This activity develops and executes experiments and prototypes focused on the advancement of M&S capabilities and technologies to increase M&S efficiency and effectiveness in its application across the Navy Enterprise.

Justification

Accomplishments & Planned Programs (3)

COMMUNITY SERVICES

This activity provides M&S community-wide services, digital ecosystems, and technical exchanges; M&S plans and standards; and verification, validation, and accreditation (VV&A) handbooks and codes of best practice. It also develops M&S procurement guidance, digital engineering strategic goals, and supports M&S discovery and reuse capabilities across the DON and Navy M&S communities. Community Services promote greater M&S use and reuse through enhancing asset discovery, creating and distributing practical implementation handbooks and codes of best practice, leveraging and extending M&S and DE standards, providing tailored training, and engaging with Navy M&S Communities to understand requirements, current capabilities, and future technology needs. It provides Navy Enterprise requirements to the Leveraging Innovations, Frameworks, and Technologies (LIFT) Environment, and builds out collaboration spaces for Navy M&S; Core Models, Simulations, Data, and Tools; Verification, Validation, and Accreditation (VV&A); and the Navy Digital Engineering Body of Knowledge, amongst other areas. Also included in this area is the creation and delivery of M&S specific training, like on Validation, Modeling, and Accreditation. Finally, it supports M&S related educational and research efforts.

CORE SERVICES

This activity provides leadership and essential planning, program and financial management, and execution of NMSO efforts as well as coordination with the other Services, the Office of Secretary of Defense (OSD), the Joint Staff, and other agencies. It also oversees initiatives to develop, promulgate, and track the policies and procedures necessary to support the creation of a robust and credible capability to create synthetic environments, accurately represent platforms and systems, predict outcomes, and provide inputs to Naval decision-makers and operational users. These core services support the DON and Navy-wide M&S alignment, planning, and execution, as well as NMSO's community services and community experiments and prototypes. It oversees the generation and application of M&S and VV&A policy, standards, guidance, and codes of best practice. It also provides guidance on documenting M&S support plans, capability summaries, and associated data in a way that is discoverable and reusable.

COMMUNITY EXPERIMENTS and PROTOTYPES

This activity develops and executes experiments and prototypes focused on the advancement of M&S capabilities and technologies to increase M&S efficiency and effectiveness in its application across the Navy Enterprise. It supports project prototypes and experiments to help determine the feasibility and applicability of innovative technical approaches, employment concepts, and proposed standards within Navy M&S. It also investigates Service-unique requirements to achieve M&S efficiency, effectiveness, and interoperability. It develops prototype tools designed to improve the access and use of operationally relevant M&S products to support Navy training, warfare assessments, and acquisition requirements. This activity focuses on supporting Navy acquisition and warfighting priorities like the seamless incorporation of digital engineering in M&S applications, making progress on priorities to include Long Range Fires and the implementation of the Naval Operational Architecture (NOA). Individual efforts focus on developing capabilities to optimize training, assessment, and acquisition functional and mission objectives through more efficient development and use of M&S.

Budget Line Items(workbook-cited)

Exhibit R-1

AccountOrgTypeAmount
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, NavyNFY24 Actuals$10.7M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, NavyNFY25 Enacted$20.9M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, NavyNFY25 Total$20.9M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, NavyNFY26 Disc. Request$12.4M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, NavyNFY26 Total$12.4M

Budget Details(R-2/P-40 facts)

ProjectAll Prior YearsFY24 ActualsFY25 TotalFY26 BaseFY26 Request
9999: Congressional Adds$0$0$10.0M$0$0
2222: Modeling & Simulation$85.7M$10.7M$10.9M$12.4M$12.4M
Program Element$85.7M$10.7M$20.9M$12.4M$12.4M

No follow-the-dollar view — this program's awards haven't been crosswalked at high confidence (flows cover 17 of 1741 programs). why coverage is partial? →

Awards

No awards are linked to this program element at high confidence — the budget→award crosswalk only asserts links it can defend, and this line has none yet.

Lobbying Mentions

No Senate LDA lobbying filing in the tracked data mentions this program element by code or alias.

No research dossier for this program — dossiers cover 50 of 1741 programs, the largest fully J-book-detailed lines by FY2026 requested dollars. why no dossier here? →