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Multi-Engine Training System (METS)
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Budget figures
No FY2026 R-1/P-1 request line for this program element. The FY2026 President's Budget request workbook carries no FY2026 line for it; its last workbook figure is FY2025. The PB2026 J-book detail below does carry an FY2026 row for this line, recorded as zero. A workbook blank and a documented zero are different records, and this page shows both. An absent line is not by itself an ending — PB2026 renumbered program elements at scale across the services and defense agencies, so this work may continue under a different number. No successor is linked for this line: this site's program-lineage layer holds no keyed edge pointing forward from here. That is an absence in this site's lineage layer, not a finding about the program: if the J-book narrative on this page describes a realignment, it is quoted below in the document's own words, and this note does not restate it.
FY2026 award data is a partial year — USAspending reports awards on a rolling basis, and this corpus runs through 2026-09-04. why partial FY2026 data? →
Budget trajectory
| Fiscal year | Amount |
|---|---|
| FY24 | $297.1MP-1 TOA · PB2026 |
| FY25 | $301.3MP-1 TOA · PB2026 |
| FY26 | $0J-book detail · PB2026 |
Decade view
P-1/R-1 workbook TOA basis, shown compact in $B/$M (the workbook records USD thousands); each figure cites its own President's Budget edition
The vertical scale does not start at zero: the baseline sits just below this program’s smallest year, so a low point on this line is not a small amount. Read the shape for direction and the grid below for the figures.
● actuals (line) · ○ enacted · ◇ request — gaps are editions the program is absent from, never interpolated.
| Series | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actuals | $0 | $107.8M | $297.1M | |
| Enacted | – | $107.8M | $289.1M | $301.3M |
| Request | – | – | $289.1M | $301.3M |
blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.
Asked vs spent: the PB2024 book requested $289.1M for FY2024; the PB2026 book reported $297.1M as actual total obligation authority — $8.00M above the request. 297.1 − 289.1 = 8.0 USD millions — the compact figures above are rounded for reading.
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
Description — Multi-Engine Training System (METS)
Multi-Engine Training System is a United States Navy (USN) program to replace the aging T-44C Pegasus fleet and modernize multi-engine aircraft training. Multi-Engine Training System provides an intermediate and advanced training platform for accession into P-8, EP-3, KC-130, E-6, E-2, CV-22 and MV-22 aircraft. This procurement will include a commercial T-54A aircraft, ground based training system, support equipment and miscellaneous essential training/support materials and services to include systems engineering, curriculum updates, and contractor logistics support. The acquisition plan includes budgeting and procuring a single, commercially available Type/Model/Series air vehicle with a digital cockpit (glass) without development, test, or modification of existing commercial equipment. The costs and quantities budgeted in this document are based on actuals for aircraft procurement and Ground Based Training System (GBTS). The anticipated aircraft service life is 30 years.
Justification
Justification — Multi-Engine Training System (METS)
T-54A will replace the T-44C aircraft. Support costs include costs that are fixed in nature and do not fluctuate with aircraft quantities in any particular year. Support cost provides funding for the procurement of airframe, engine, avionics peculiar ground support equipment and aircraft protective equipment to support site and squadron stand-ups. Support cost also includes the purchase of operational flight trainers, unit training devices, desktop avionics trainers, cockpit procedures trainers, non-recurring engineering to update commercial training devices for military unique training requirements and interim contractor logistics support. Additional costs are for data rights for the Ground Based Training System, curriculum gap analysis and the training courseware content update. T-44C is the only transitional platform from single engine to multi-engine Transport and Maritime fleet aircraft. The aging 44+ year old platform has become less cost effective to maintain annually as it has surpassed its fatigue life by greater than 50%. The aircraft is experiencing obsolescence, diminishing manufacturing sources and material shortages, and training capability gaps (as identified in the Capabilities Based Assessment Naval Undergraduate Flight Training). Additionally, operations and support costs for the legacy T-44 Aircraft Conditional Inspection (ACI), required every five years, have increased from $1.0M per aircraft ten years ago to $4.5M per aircraft today. A commercially available air vehicle will be the right solution to meet the needs of the Navy quickly, efficiently, and with the most economical intent. This plan provides ample amount of aircraft to transition to a more modern solution that better prepares pilots for fleet integration. This budget ensures a replacement multi-engine aircraft is delivered to the fleet as quickly as possible.
Budget line items(workbook-cited)
P-1/R-1 workbook Total Obligation Authority basis (USD thousands) · PB2026.
Exhibit P-1
| Account | Org | Type | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aircraft Procurement, Navy | N | FY24 Actuals | $297.1M |
| Aircraft Procurement, Navy | N | FY25 Enacted | $301.3M |
Budget Details(R-2/P-40 facts)
J-book detail basis (R-2/P-40, USD millions) · PB2026 — a different accounting basis from the P-1/R-1 workbook TOA above; where the two disagree, the reconciliation strip under Budget figures shows both.
Wider than this screen — swipe the table sideways for the remaining fiscal-year columns.
| Project | All Prior Years | FY24 Actuals | FY25 Total | FY26 Base | FY26 Request |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Program Element | $106.6M | $297.1M | $301.3M | $0 | $0 |
Follow the dollar
Appropriation → program element → top high-confidence awards → recipient families → congressional districts.
Follow-the-dollar covers 312 of 1,938 programs — only high-confidence budget→award links are shown. why coverage is partial? →
The diagram illustrates the cited table below — amounts shown in the diagram are transaction sums per award (no citation chips); the per-district obligations in the table cite USAspending queries.
| District | Program obligations |
|---|---|
| FL-15 | $96.8M |
Related awards
Award linkage is shown for 32 of 200 profiled companies — high- and medium-confidence USAspending matches, each row labeled; medium is the weaker evidence. why partial award coverage? →
Rows marked medium rest on evidence weaker than a program-level match, and of more than one kind. An account-based row, where the award drew from the same appropriation account as this program, is an association, not evidence that this program paid for the contract. Where the evidence is instead an FPDS acquisition-program tag or a subaward description, the program is established but which of its budget lines paid is not. An announcement link a recorded review did not leave standing is medium too. Only high rows rest on the contract naming this program with a recorded review upholding it and no recorded rejection or refutation applying.
| Recipient | PIID | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
| TRU SIMULATION + TRAINING INC. | N6134024C0009 | high |
| TEXTRON AVIATION INC | N0001923C0020 | medium |
Contractor concentration
No concentration index is published for this line. This line's high-confidence links do not clear the floor for a published concentration index — at least 3 awards across 2 contractor families holding positive obligations, with positive net linked dollars. An index below that floor is a fact about the sample, not about the market. Whatever further links this line carries are medium-confidence, and what each medium evidence path does and does not establish is set out in the methodology. Both bases are in the downloadable warehouse.
Lobbying mentions
No Senate LDA lobbying filing in the tracked data mentions this program element by code or alias.
Oversight
Department-level designation (not specific to this program)
GAO lists 5 high-risk areas for DOD as a whole. That designation covers the department, not Multi-Engine Training System (METS). No program-specific GAO finding for this line is in the ingested data. See the DOD oversight record.
Program dossier
No research dossier for this program — dossiers cover 50 of 1,938 programs, the largest fully J-book-detailed lines by FY2026 requested dollars. why no dossier here? →
Primary sources
Open any budget figure for its exact receipt. Verified line items lead with the highlighted government PDF; original spreadsheets download with their budget edition and exhibit in the filename.
Budget totals · TOA sources
FY2026 Department of Defense Budget: Procurement Programs (P-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit P-1 · O337
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2026_DoD_P-1_Procurement.xlsx.
FY2024 Department of Defense Budget: Procurement Programs (P-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit P-1 · O334
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2024_DoD_P-1_Procurement.xlsx.
FY2025 Department of Defense Budget: Procurement Programs (P-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit P-1 · O336
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2025_DoD_P-1_Procurement.xlsx.
Detailed budget justification
The related TOA spreadsheets above use a different accounting basis from R-2/P-40 detail. Their amounts are not assumed to match these detailed sources.