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Shipboard Aviation Systems
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Budget figures
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 | $10.2M |
| FY25 | $10.7M |
| FY26 | $33.7M |
All series figures: R-1 TOA · 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 | FY15 | FY16 | FY17 | FY18 | FY19 | FY20 | FY21 | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actuals | $120.1M | $117.4M | $114.3M | $174.0M | $13.5M | $14.5M | $9.10M | $8.89M | $7.34M | $10.2M | ||
| Enacted | $120.2M | $112.2M | $177.9M | $13.7M | $14.6M | $11.6M | $8.92M | $11.8M | $10.4M | $10.7M | ||
| Request | $112.2M | $177.9M | $9.71M | $10.6M | $9.59M | $8.92M | $11.8M | $10.4M | $10.7M | $33.7M |
blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.
Asked vs spent: the PB2023 book requested $11.8M for FY2023; the PB2025 book reported $7.34M as actual total obligation authority — $4.42M below the request. 7.344 − 11.759 = -4.415 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
Mission — Shipboard Aviation Systems
CV Launch & Recover System - This Navy unique project addresses the System Development and Demonstration (SDD) of systems required to recover and launch Navy/Marine Corps Aircraft (Fixed/Rotary Wing and Vertical/Short Take Off and Landing) operating aboard aircraft carriers, amphibious assault ships, and air capable ships. This program element includes the following: (1) Aircraft Launch & Recovery Equipment Modernization (2) Aircraft Launch and Recovery Equipment Service Life Management program This program is funded under System Development and Demonstration because it includes projects that have passed Milestone B approval and conducting engineering and manufacturing development tasks aimed at meeting validated requirement prior to full-rate production decision.
Mission — CV/CVN Launch and Recover
This Navy unique project addresses the System Development and Demonstration (SDD) of systems required to recover and launch Navy/Marine Corps Aircraft (Fixed/Rotary Wing and Vertical/Short Take-Off and Landing) operating aboard aircraft carriers (CVN), amphibious assault ships and air capable ships. This program includes the following systems under Project 2232, including the funding of production representative models for: (1) Aircraft Launch & Recovery Equipment (ALRE) Modernization: ALRE Modernization encompasses efforts required to ensure continued functional performance, operational relevance, and cybersecurity accreditation for all product lines across the ALRE program. This includes efforts required to resolve emerging obsolescence issues (both hardware and software), implement fleet driven operational capability upgrades, and comply with cybersecurity requirements and computer task order requirements for security threat mitigation. Major categories include Visual Landing Aids (VLA), Information Systems, Launcher, Recovery, Marine Aviation Data Management System (MADMS) and Aviation Data Management and Control System (ADMACS). There are 48 fielded subsystems that are included in the major categories. The ALRE Gold Disk program provides diagnostic test routines for fleet technician troubleshooting capability on faulty circuit cards to identify the problem and perform the repair. VLA Long Range Line-Up (LRLS) is a solid state system required by CVNs Flight Deck Certification and provides visual cues for approaching fixed wing aircraft to ensure safe recovery of all platforms in all environments. Marine Aviation Data Management System (MADMS) is an integrated shipboard information system that provides near real-time situational awareness to key work centers by reducing data replication and provides discreet communications in support of air and surface operations on amphibious assault ships with process automation, distribution and display of information, and integration of key operational systems like weapons, combat cargo/surface ops, shipboard planning, flight ops, and flight deck management. (2) Aircraft Launch & Recovery Equipment (ALRE) Service Life Management Program (SLMP): The ALRE SLMP for Launcher and Recovery is required to sustain carrier aviation operations of higher energy aircraft launch and recoveries that are increasing loads on the ALRE systems, and that are affecting availability, maintainability and cost. This program will consist of service life assessment and extension initiatives and will establish the design foundation (structural, reliability, and maintainability analyses), permit appropriate assessment, track and focus design changes where most needed. Two SLMP prototypes were procured in FY 2018. The Nimitz class aircraft carriers operate Mark 7 arresting gear systems to capture and arrest Navy aircraft. The Mark 7 systems use a classic linear-piston cylinder setup to convert the kinetic energy of the aircraft into storage energy. Specifically, a control system is used to apply correct logic to piston-cylinder closing parameters depending upon the aircraft type that is being arrested. This is called Advanced Recovery Control (ARC). The current ARC system was designed with early 2000's technology and components that have reached their end-of-life and are not compliant with current cybersecurity protocols. To support continued operations through 2060, a series of developmental engineering changes are required for modernized control components, technology and cybersecurity. This is the ARC Block Upgrade.
Justification
Accomplishments & Planned Programs (1)
Aircraft Launch & Recovery Equipment (ALRE) Modernization
ALRE Modernization encompasses efforts required to ensure continued functional performance, operational relevance, and cybersecurity accreditation for all product lines across the ALRE program. This includes efforts required to resolve emerging obsolescence issues (both hardware and software), implement fleet driven operational capability upgrades, and comply with cybersecurity requirements and computer task order requirements for security threat mitigation. Major categories include Visual Landing Aids (VLA), Information Systems, Launcher, Recovery, Marine Aviation Data Management System (MADMS), and Aviation Data Management and Control System (ADMACS). There are 48 fielded subsystems included in the major categories. Note: - Implementation of MADMS was performed under an Engineering Change Proposal (ECP) to ADMACS in budget line item 4213 - Aircraft Support Equipment. System development efforts funded in RDTE&N allow continual development and modernization of MADMS software. - VLA Long Range Line of Sight (LRLS) efforts initiated in FY 2024 through FY 2025 in program element 0605217N - Common Avionics, project 0572 - JT Service/NV Std Avionics CP/SB funded in the Avionics Component Improvement Program (AvCIP).
Budget line items(workbook-cited)
P-1/R-1 workbook Total Obligation Authority basis (USD thousands) · PB2026.
Exhibit R-1
| Account | Org | Type | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy | N | FY24 Actuals | $10.2M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy | N | FY25 Enacted | $10.7M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy | N | FY25 Total | $10.7M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy | N | FY26 Disc. Request | $33.7M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy | N | FY26 Total | $33.7M |
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 | $1.12B | $10.2M | $10.7M | $33.7M | $33.7M |
| 2232: CV/CVN Launch and Recover | $1.12B | $10.2M | $10.7M | $33.7M | $33.7M |
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 |
|---|---|
| MD-02 | $43.9M |
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? →
| Recipient | PIID | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
| NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION | N6833523C0248 | high |
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 Shipboard Aviation Systems. 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: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J379
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2026_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2017 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J331
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2017_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2018 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J361
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2018_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2019 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J371
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2019_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2020 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J383
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2020_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2021 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J395
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2021_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2022 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J369
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2022_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2023 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J360
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2023_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2024 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J359
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2024_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2025 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J361
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2025_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.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.
RDTEN BA1-3 Book · www.secnav.navy.mil