Management, Technical & International Support

Mission — Congressional Add source

This program provides a systematic and planned approach to improve vital in-house science and technology (S&T) laboratory facilities which are reaching or have reached critical stages of deterioration. The program includes restoration and modernization (R&M) initiatives for NRL facilities, where the average age of the buildings is over 69 years, as of 2024.

Mission — PACOM Initiative source

China Strategic Initiative (CSI) became a DoD RDTE program in FY 2014. The CSI program is U.S. Indo-Pacific Command's(INDOPACOM) first Asia Rebalance initiative and provides critical support to planning efforts across the Command addressing Secretary of Defense's # 1 priority. CSI is a command-directed program that provides the Commander, INDOPACOM, and his staff vital support at all levels of planning and decision-making within the INDOPACOM Area Of Responsibility. The CSI program provides: cutting-edge research on adversary approaches to warfare, monitoring and analysis of adversary social media and censorship, unique understanding of effects of U.S. actions at the strategic and operational levels, sponsorship of Track 1.5/2 Strategic Nuclear Dialogue with China, etc. This funding is for a classified effort and details can be provided at a higher classification level. Pacific Multi-Domain Training and Experimentation Capability (PMTEC) is foundational to meeting Commander, USINDOPACOM's high-end warfighting capability, theater force posture, and Ally & Partner (A&P) objectives through the execution of joint experimentation in the Indo-Pacific. The innovative combinations of new technology, capability, and CONOPS in Joint Exercises will enable integration, warfighting assessment, and rapid capability development. PMTEC is the joint synchronizer and integrator by bringing together OSD, Service RDT&E, other government agencies, industry, and academia with Combatant Commands, Service Components, warfighting units, and A&Ps to expedite experimentations of R&D projects/prototypes and to facilitate more rapid modernization and interoperability. The Joint Experimentation Program (JExP) is a theater-wide campaign of joint experiments to inform and strengthen the ability of joint and combined forces to execute all-domain operations in contested environments. JExP is focused on both what the U.S. and allies can do to protect partners subjected to military aggression, and also what those partners can do to defend themselves against said aggression. To determine the readiness of developmental systems to operate within the contested environment, JExP consists of three experimentation categories/pillars: a. Joint Experimentation within Exercises b. Stand-alone Experimentation c. Joint International Experimentation The Research, Development, Test & Evaluation funds materiel, both commercial and government off the shelf systems, required to execute international experiments to include support equipment and/or developmental software and systems for potential leave-behind capabilities. Lastly, it funds the logistics required to deploy, install, and remove any specific developmental equipment required for JIE.

Mission — Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Facilities Modernization source

This program provides a systematic and planned approach to improve vital in-house science and technology (S&T) laboratory facilities which are reaching or have reached critical stages of deterioration at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), where the average building age is 70 years old, as of 2025. Critical S&T research cannot be sustained or succeed in deteriorated facilities. World class research can only be accomplished in facilities that are at a minimum "adequate", but preferably "state-of-the-art." Due to their advanced age and deterioration, funds will be used for restoration and modernization efforts in support of NRL's research mission of meeting future technological threats and providing support to the warfighter.

Mission — MTMD-Maritime Theater Missile Defense Forum source

This project funds participation in Maritime Integrated Air and Missile Defense projects with other nations through the Maritime Missile Defense Projects Framework Memorandum of Understanding of 2004 (as amended 2009, 2015, 2016 and 2020). Known as the Maritime Theater Missile Defense (MTMD) Forum, it promotes interoperability with the Navies of twelve participating nations (Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, United Kingdom and the United States). This project provides interoperability assessment and opportunities to Allies that directly contributes to increasing the number of countries capable of supporting NATO Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD). Engineering analysis and data analytics from MTMD activities are provided to European and Pacific Combatant Commands in direct support of theater Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) priorities. The MTMD Forum addresses challenges associated with integrating maritime Allied Air Defense in Support of Ballistic Missile Defense Operations into joint IAMD command and control. MTMD Forum nations leverage At-Sea Demonstration (ASD) test events, coupled with operational Fleet Exercises (Formidable Shield and Pacific Dragon), to integrate technology and validate national capabilities in operational constructs, supportive of operational force employment. The MTMD Forum encourages national development of systems and practices that enhance protection and defense against the proliferation of short, medium and long-range Ballistic Missile (BM) and Advanced Anti-Ship Cruise Missile (ASCM) threats through the development of interoperable sea-based Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) capability among MTMD Forum nations. The MTMD Forum enhances utilization of existing sea-based IAMD systems to protect against current threats, while measuring progressive improvement and development of compatible systems to better counter evolving threats. This project supports USN participation in a Maritime IAMD Project Arrangement focused on: (1) Battle Management Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence (BMC4I) to define and develop architectures and perform engineering to address coalition capability gaps. (2) Modeling & Simulation (M&S) to establish and maintain a maritime coalition M&S testbed and to perform legacy and future systems simulation testing. (3) Hardware-in-the-Loop Testing of Coalition combat systems to assess interoperability within the Coalition Distributed Engineering Plant (CDEP). (4) Open Architecture (OA) work to develop Interface Standards and Data Models. (5) Test Planning and Execution (TPEX) to develop Test Plans, oversee exercise participation and conduct post event data analysis and reporting. (6) Operational Requirements (OR) to identify operational constraints and tactical constructs surrounding coalition maritime integrated air and missile defense activities, and their integration into joint operations. (7) Reciprocal Use of Test Facilities agreements with other nations to support Maritime IAMD and MTMD Forum-related demonstrations.

Mission — Sec. 2912 Operational Energy Savings source

PU 3270 Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Operational Energy EREACTS Program: The Operational Energy EREACTS program is a key initiative within the DoD that develops, implements, and sustains innovative energy-saving operational initiatives. This program aligns with the operational energy objectives set by the SECNAV by improving resiliency, efficiency, and warfighter readiness. The Navy Postgraduate School (NPS) is instrumental in this effort, conducting innovative research and offering operational energy education to the Fleet through various funded projects.

Mission — Enterprise Information Systems source

This project funds the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Next Generation Enterprise Network (NGEN) Information Technology corporate costs.

Mission — JT Mission Assessment Studies source

This exhibit has been updated to reflect the establishment of the Navy Analytic Office (NAO), which is responsible for the executive oversight of Navy studies and analysis. The NAO was stood up to better align the annual Analytic Agenda to Chief Naval Operation's (CNO) strategic priorities while also providing for study of the more tactical requirements of the Fleet and Navy writ large. The outcome will be synchronized modeling, simulation, assessments, wargames, experiments and exercises providing rich, shared data to support and refine warfighting concepts and to inform budget decisions. The Navy Annual Studies Program supports the Analytic Agenda by providing both the development and use of modeling, simulation and analytically-based warfare, business analyses and analytic tools that provide the basis for decision making with respect to concepts of operations (CONOPS), Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) Systems; warfare systems, and analytical underpinnings/basis for programmatic decisions of the Navy's top leadership regarding their architectures, force structure, and the Navy's core "organize, train, and equip mission" (the warfare and provider Enterprises). The program provides capability-based planning assessment for Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS), conducts analysis to affect warfighting capability trades and enterprise resources, identifies needs, gaps and overlaps, and assesses alternative solutions to Joint needs. The program provides overarching Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution System (PPBES) analyses and guidance for PPBES which provides gap analysis and investment strategy and total obligation authority allocation. It provides independent capability analysis and assists in structuring follow-on Navy analyses. The program coordinates Navy's position for the enhanced planning process and conducts net assessments. It serves as the lead campaign analysis to approve Navy warfare and support requirements. The program supports the Maritime Strategy which charts a course for the Navy, Coast Guard and Marine Corps to work collectively with each other and international partners to prevent crises from occurring, or reacting quickly should one occur to avoid negative impact to the United States. The Studies Program provides a broad-view perspective across the Fleet and Navy staff, with an integrated look at both warfighting and warfighting-support programs. It provides Navy alternatives in assessing the implications embedded within resource decisions in a quantified context of costs versus capability versus risk. The program provides independent analytic support to Navy leadership in conjunction with various executive level decision forums. This project funds concept development engineering, mission effectiveness analysis, and other analyses for formulation of future surface ship and associated platform force structure along with development of the tools to accomplish these efforts. Advanced platform concept studies and systems technology assessments will be conducted as will the development and upgrade of concept design and engineering tools, methods, and criteria. Concept Formulation (CONFORM)/Concept Development and Experimentation (CDE) for ships, boats and unmanned maritime vehicles must be continuously exercised to remain viable. It takes years to train competent practitioners, and knowledge currency is quickly lost without practice. Evolving threats and technologies drive concepts (and the tools, processes, and skills needed to produce them) towards obsolescence without constant attention. Capability Based Assessments and Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) timelines are insufficient for establishing potential material solution cost versus capability relationships without significant concept formulation work beforehand. Active collaboration between the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations requirement sponsors, Program Offices, and the various System Commands (Naval Sea Systems Command, Naval Air Systems Command and Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command) engineers is critical for fully exploring the trade space by conducting analysis for affordability, effectiveness and risk. The majority of Total Ownership Cost (TOC) is locked into a design before it is even a program. In the later stages of a program it becomes much more costly to make changes that will significantly impact TOC. Investment up front in concept design can have a high payoff in TOC reduction over the life of a platform class. Outputs include concept costing and performance parameterization for comparative assessment against capability objectives and synthesis to quantify overall (Fleet) capabilities. These products (expressions of cost vs. capability) will serve as the basis of requirements and Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System analysis, define the trade space for AoA efforts, and underpin discussion of force architecture/structure during Quadrennial Defense Review, Long Range Shipbuilding Strategy builds, and Joint Requirements Oversight Council reviews.Perform-2-Plan(P2P) analytical Studies will continue to create a shared understanding of organizational metrics that includes understanding the effort needed to achieve a more complex readiness success, elevating barriers and matters requiring Echelon I leadership action to resolve, fostering a data-driven decision culture and simplifying and standardizing metrics reporting to spotlight issues and improve problem-solving. 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 P2P driver tree. The analytical model will forecast the numbers of mission ready LCS, parts shortages, unplanned down days, and/or CASREPs/CANNABs. The analytical model will serve as the basis for prioritizing and assessing how resources can best be allocated to improve LCS readiness as well as identify key actionable drivers that result in a decrease in LCS mission readiness and increase unplanned down days. 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. Capabilities-Based Assessment (CBA) is the Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS) analysis process that includes three phases: Functional Area Analysis (FAA), Functional Needs Analysis (FNA), and Functional Solution Analysis (FSA). The results of the CBA are used to develop a joint capabilities document (based on the FAA and FNA) or initial capabilities document (based on the full analysis). CBA funding provides the resource sponsors the means to develop the analytic underpinning required by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Instruction 3170.01G to support the determination of Naval warfighting capabilities and force structure needed to support the Joint Requirements Oversight Council (JROC)/JCIDS requirements validation process and to inform Program Objective Memorandum programming decisions. This analysis includes evaluation of integration and interoperability gaps of both current and future Navy platforms and systems capabilities.

Mission — Navy Postgraduate School (NPS) Studies Support source

Navy Postgraduate School (NPS) research and analysis activities serve as a focal point, stimulus, and major source of strategic, tactical and operational thought within the Navy communities. These efforts generate strategic and operational alternatives, tactical imperatives, quantitative analyses, technical developments and assessments, and political-military assessments. Also, provide recommendations to the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), Fleet Commanders and numbered Fleet Commanders regarding the formulation and execution of maritime options for the President of the United States. Research will be conducted that will enhance graduate education for Naval Officers and potentially provide students with areas of studies for theses and faculty projects. These research activities also serve as a means for OPNAV Resource Sponsors and Major Commands to have analysis and decision support research conducted in the uses of the applied, soft, and hard sciences in solving diverse and complex resource allocation and strategic issues facing the Navy today and envisioned in the future.

Mission — Naval War Col Strategic Studies Supt source

Naval War College (NWC) research, analysis and gaming activities serve as a focal point, stimulus, and major source of strategic and operational thought within the Navy, Joint and Interagency communities. These efforts generate strategic and operational alternatives, tactical imperatives, quantitative analysis, war gaming, political-military assessments, and provide recommendations to the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), Fleet Commanders and numbered Fleet Commanders regarding the formulation and execution of maritime options for the President of the United States.

Mission — International Coop RDT&E source

Provides funding for program management, execution, and support activities to implement a broad range of cooperative naval Research and Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) initiatives to improve coalition interoperability, harmonize U.S. Navy requirements with allied and friendly nations and identify cooperative international opportunities. The funding is used to develop approaches to international cooperation consistent with combatant commanders (COCOMs), Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), and Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) priorities in the maritime domain. Various cooperative RDT&E programs, projects and exchanges are pursued to identify cooperative acquisition programs, enhance Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) efforts, fill capability gaps, improve US/coalition interoperability, and standardize defense capabilities with international partners. Such efforts have resulted in: 1. Negotiating and developing approximately 57 international RDT&E Agreements annually with allied and friendly nations; 2. Executing Information Exchange Annexes (IEAs) with foreign partners; 3. Improving IEA information dissemination with allied and friendly countries and within Department of the Navy (DON); 4. Coordinating Navy inputs to the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (OUSD) Acquisition and Sustainment (A&S) Foreign Comparative Test (FCT) Program, and Coalition Warfare Program (CWP) as well as the DON Technology Transfer Security Assistance Review Boards (TTSARB). 5. Representing the U.S. Navy in Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) directed Armaments Cooperation Forums, including the Conference of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Armaments Directors' groups (NATO Naval Armaments Group (NNAG)), and Senior National Representative (SNR); 6. Funding of various international RDT&E support databases including Technical Project Officer (TPO), International Agreement Generators, Information/Data Exchange Agreements, and Project Agreements/Memorandums of Understanding; 7. Funding for Engineering and Scientist Exchange Program (ESEP).

Mission — Management, Technical & Intl Supt source

PU 0149 International Cooperative RDT&E: Provide program management, execution, and support to implement a broad range of cooperative Naval Research and Development, Test and Evaluation initiatives to improve coalition interoperability, harmonize U.S. Navy requirements with allied and friendly nations, and identify cooperative international opportunities, and improve coalition interoperability. In addition, it develops coherent approaches, coordinating with partner nations, to sea-based missile defense, command, control, communications, computers and intelligence (C4I), and cooperative acquisition programs while also identifying technology to support the Global Maritime Partnership initiative. PU 1767 Naval War College Strategic Studies Support: Provides research, analysis and gaming activities which serve as a focal point, stimulus, and major source of strategic and operational thought within the Navy, joint and interagency communities. These efforts generate strategic and operational alternatives, quantitative analysis, war gaming and political military assessments, and provide recommendations regarding the formulation and execution of maritime options. The War Gaming Department plans, designs, executes, analyzes and reports on the Navy's Title 10 war games. These war games provide analytical input to the Navy's Strategic Plan, assessments of future concepts, and recommendations to the Navy's Quadrennial Defense Review, force design, and strategy process. The War Gaming Department also designs, executes and analyzes war games for theater security cooperation plans and operational war fighting issues. PU 2098 Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Studies Support: Navy Postgraduate School (NPS) Naval Research Program (NRP) supports senior decision-makers from the Department of the Navy, the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Budget Submission Offices and Fleet Commanders in reaching well-informed, objective decisions on strategic, operational, and programmatic issues through collaborative and interdisciplinary research which integrates traditional research and analysis with advanced decision support tools. Faculty conducted research, student theses and capstone projects are an integral part of this program in support of the critical research and analysis requirements across the Naval enterprise. PU 2221 Assessment Program: The Navy Assessment Program provides capability-based planning assessment for Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS), conducts analysis to affect war fighting capability trades and enterprise resources, identifies needs, gaps, and overlaps, and assesses alternative solutions to Joint needs. The program supports both the development and use of modeling, simulation and analytically-based warfare and provides business analyses and analytic tools that provide the basis for decision making with respect to concepts of operations (CONOPS), Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) Systems (Information Dominance); warfare systems (Sea Strike, Sea Shield, and Sea Basing) and analytical underpinnings/basis for programmatic decisions of the Navy's top leadership regarding their architectures, force structure, and the Navy's core "organize, train, and equip mission" (the warfare and provider Enterprises). The program provides overarching Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution System (PPBES) analyses and guidance for PPBES which provides gap analysis and investment strategy and total obligation authority allocation. It provides independent capability analysis and assists in structuring follow-on Navy analyses. The program coordinates Navy's position for the enhanced planning process and conducts net assessments. It serves as the lead campaign analysis to approve Navy warfare and support requirements. The program supports "A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower 21" as modified by the Maritime Strategy which charts a course for the Navy, Coast Guard and Marine Corps to work collectively with each other and international partners to prevent crises from occurring or reacting quickly should one occur to avoid negative impact to the United States. It serves as an independent assessor providing a broad-view perspective across the Navy staff apart from resource sponsors, with an integrated look at both war fighting and war fighting support programs. The program supports the world class modeling efforts to attain a level of Modeling and Simulation (M&S) capability that is world class and establishes the Navy as a leader in the Department of Defense (DoD) M&S community. It provides Navy alternatives in assessing the implications embedded within resource decisions in a quantified context of costs versus capability versus risk. The program provides independent analytic support to Navy leadership in conjunction with various executive level decision forums. It develops tools and analytical methodologies that assist in evaluating Navy programs and provides technical leadership for the analysis functional area of Naval Modeling and Simulation. PU 3017 Enterprise Information Systems: This project funds the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Next Generation Enterprise Network (NGEN) Information Technology corporate costs. PU 3312 MTMD - Maritime Theater Missile Defense Forum: This project funds participation in Maritime Integrated Air and Missile Defense projects with other nations through the Maritime Missile Defense Projects Framework Memorandum of Understanding of 2004 (as amended 2009, 2015, 2016 and 2020). Known as the Maritime Theater Missile Defense (MTMD) Forum, it promotes interoperability with the Navies of twelve participating nations (Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, United Kingdom and the United States). This project provides interoperability assessment and opportunities to Allies that directly contributes to increasing the number of countries capable of supporting NATO Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD). Engineering analysis and data analytics from MTMD activities are provided to European and Pacific Combatant Commands in direct support of theater Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) priorities. The MTMD Forum addresses challenges associated with integrating maritime Allied Air Defense in Support of Ballistic Missile Defense Operations into joint IAMD command and control. MTMD Forum nations leverage At-Sea Demonstration (ASD) test events, coupled with operational Fleet Exercises (Formidable Shield and Pacific Dragon), to integrate technology and validate national capabilities in operational constructs, supportive of operational force employment. The MTMD Forum encourages national development of systems and practices that enhance protection and defense against the proliferation of short, medium and long-range Ballistic Missile (BM) and Advanced Anti-Ship Cruise Missile (ASCM) threats through the development of interoperable sea-based Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) capability among MTMD Forum nations. The MTMD Forum enhances utilization of existing sea-based IAMD systems to protect against current threats, while measuring progressive improvement and development of compatible systems to better counter evolving threats. This project supports USN participation in a Maritime IAMD Project Arrangement focused on: (1) Battle Management Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence (BMC4I) to define and develop architectures and perform engineering to address coalition capability gaps. (2) Modeling & Simulation (M&S) to establish and maintain a maritime coalition M&S testbed and to perform legacy and future systems simulation testing. (3) Hardware-in-the-Loop Testing of Coalition combat systems to assess interoperability within the Coalition Distributed Engineering Plant (CDEP). (4) Open Architecture (OA) work to develop Interface Standards and Data Models. (5) Test Planning and Execution (TPEX) to develop Test Plans, oversee exercise participation and conduct post event data analysis and reporting. (6) Operational Requirements (OR) to identify operational constraints and tactical constructs surrounding coalition maritime integrated air and missile defense activities, and their integration into joint operations. (7) Reciprocal Use of Test Facilities agreements with other nations to support Maritime IAMD and MTMD Forum-related demonstrations. PU 3330 Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Facilities Modernization: This program has been established to provide a systematic and planned approach to improve vital in-house science and technology (S&T) laboratory facilities which are reaching or have reached critical stages of deterioration. The program includes restoration and modernization (R&M) initiatives for about 350,000 net square feet, where the average age of the buildings is 67 years old. PU 3363 PACOM Initiative: This project supports the China Strategic Initiative (CSI) and Pacific Multi-Domain Training and Experimentation Capability (PMTEC) efforts. The CSI program is U.S. Indo-Pacific Command's (INDOPACOM) first Asia Rebalance initiative and provides cutting-edge research on adversary approaches to warfare, monitoring and analysis of adversary social media and censorship, unique understanding of effects of U.S. actions at the strategic and operational levels, sponsorship of Track 1.5/2 Strategic Nuclear Dialogue with China, etc. This funding is for a classified effort and details can be provided at a higher classification level. Pacific Multi-Domain Training and Experimentation Capability (PMTEC) is foundational to meeting Commander, USINDOPACOM's high-end warfighting capability, theater force posture, and Ally & Partner (A&P) objectives through the execution of joint experimentation in the Indo-Pacific. PMTEC is the joint synchronizer and integrator by bringing together OSD, Service RDT&E, other government agencies, industry, and academia with Combatant Commands, Service Components, warfighting units, and A&Ps to expedite experimentations of R&D projects/prototypes and to facilitate more rapid modernization and interoperability. JUSTIFICATION FOR BUDGET ACTIVITY: This program is funded under RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST and EVALUATION MANAGEMENT SUPPORT because it supports efforts directed toward sustaining or modernizing installations or operations required for general research, development, test and evaluation.

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