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Carrier Replacement Program
Budget figures
Two official figures, one label— reconciled below
Fiscal Receipts uses P-1/R-1 workbook total obligation authority (TOA) as the headline figure sitewide. The workbook TOA includes budget rows that the R-2/P-40 J-book program line excludes — advance procurement, most commonly. How the two bases relate →
FY26 Request · $1.66B TOA − $1.81B J-book line = -150.0M (1,658.7 − 1,808.7 = -150.0)
Figures in the sentence are rounded for reading; the parenthesised arithmetic is the same subtraction in USD millions, at the precision where it closes.
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 | $1.73B |
| FY25 | $1.36B |
| FY26 | $1.66B |
All series figures: P-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 | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actuals | $1.35B | $1.93B | $1.73B | ||
| Enacted | – | $1.93B | $1.12B | $1.36B | |
| Request | – | – | $1.12B | $1.19B | $1.66B |
blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.
Asked vs spent: the PB2024 book requested $1.12B for FY2024; the PB2026 book reported $1.73B as actual total obligation authority — $613.7M above the request. 1,729.0 − 1,115.3 = 613.7 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 — Carrier Replacement Program
To provide credible, sustainable, independent forward presence during peacetime without access to land bases; operate as the cornerstone of a joint and/or allied maritime expeditionary force in response to crisis; and carry the war to the enemy through joint multi-mission offensive operations. The Navy designed the FORD Class aircraft carrier with the warfighting capability essential for the 21st century, and the flexibility and resilience to rapidly adapt to emerging threats. The Ford class incorporates advances in technology such as a new reactor plant, propulsion system, electric plant, Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS), Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG), machinery control, and integrated warfare systems that increase lethality, while lowering life cycle costs through reductions in maintenance and manning requirements. Increased Service Life Allowances (SLA) for weight and stability enable future modernization and the ability to adapt to new missions over the ship's 50-year life cycle. CVN 80 and CVN 81 were awarded under a two-ship buy. CVN 80 is a separate contract line item under the same contract as CVN 81, which allows discrete hull costs to be captured. The CVN 80/81 construction contract is a Fixed Price Incentive (Firm Target) (FPIF) contract type that limits the Navy's liability and incentivizes the shipyard's best performance. The contract language guarantees a single technical baseline for both ships, which allows the shipyard to re-use engineering rollover products, minimize changes between the two ships and leverages economic order quantities for equipment and material procurement. The Advanced Procurement (AP) funding in FY 2026 is the first of 4 years of AP funding for CVN 82. CVN 81 was moved to BLI 2004 in accordance with the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2020.
Justification
No accomplishments or planned-program narratives in this line's J-book detail — some exhibits carry figures without per-project prose.
Budget line items(workbook-cited)
P-1/R-1 workbook Total Obligation Authority basis (USD thousands) · PB2026.
Exhibit P-1
| Account | Org | Type | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy | N | FY24 Actuals | $1.73B |
| Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy | N | FY25 Enacted | $1.36B |
| Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy | N | FY26 Disc. Request | $1.66B |
| Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy | N | FY26 Total | $1.66B |
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 | $34.7B | $1.73B | $1.36B | $1.81B | $1.81B |
Follow the dollar
No follow-the-dollar view — this program's awards haven't been crosswalked at high confidence (flows cover 312 of 1,938 programs). why coverage is partial? →
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 |
|---|---|---|
| DIAZ SALES, LLC | N6279314PA106 | medium |
| GENERAL ATOMICS | N0001919F2406 | medium |
| HUNTINGTON INGALLS INC | N0002408C2110 | medium |
| HUNTINGTON INGALLS INC | N0002409C2116 | medium |
| HUNTINGTON INGALLS INC | N0002415C2114 | medium |
| HUNTINGTON INGALLS INC | N0002415C2121 | medium |
| HUNTINGTON INGALLS INC | N0002416C2116 | medium |
| SAM TELL & SON, INC. | N6279316PA070 | medium |
| SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH CORPORATION | N0003921F1006 | 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
15 mentions from the Senate LDA disclosure database.
Carrier Replacement Program VCS CVN RCOH DDG-51 Class Multi-year Procurement DDG(X) DDG 1002 LHA and LPD Flight II…
Carrier Replacement Program VCS CVN RCOH DDG-51 Class Multi-year Procurement DDG(X) DDG 1002 LHA and LPD Flight II…
Carrier Replacement Program VCS CVN RCOH DDG-51 Class Multi-year Procurement DDG(X) DDG 1002 LHA and LPD Flight II…
Carrier Replacement Program VCS CVN RCOH DDG-51 Class Multi-year Procurement DDG(X) DDG 1002 LHA and LPD Flight II…
Carrier Replacement Program VCS CVN RCOH DDG-51 Class Multi-year Procurement DDG(X) DDG 1002 LHA and LPD Flight II…
Carrier Replacement Program VCS CVN RCOH DDG-51 Class Multi-year Procurement DDG(X) DDG 1002 LHA and LPD Flight II…
Carrier Replacement Program VCS CVN RCOH DDG-51 Class Multi-year Procurement DDG(X) DDG 1002 LHA and LPD Flight II…
Carrier Replacement Program VCS CVN RCOH DDG-51 Class Multi-year Procurement DDG(X) DDG 1002 LHA and LPD Flight II…
Carrier Replacement Program VCS CVN RCOH DDG-51 Class Multi-year Procurement DDG(X) DDG 1002 LHA and LPD Flight II…
Carrier Replacement Program VCS CVN RCOH DDG-51 Class Multi-year Procurement DDG(X) DDG 1002 LHA and LPD Flight II…
Carrier Replacement Program VCS CVN RCOH DDG-51 Class Multi-year Procurement DDG(X) DDG 1002 LHA and LPD Flight II…
Carrier Replacement Program VCS CVN RCOH DDG-51 Class Multi-year Procurement DDG(X) DDG 1002 LHA and LPD Flight II…
Carrier Replacement Program VCS CVN RCOH DDG-51 Class Multi-year Procurement DDG(X) DDG 1002 LHA and LPD Flight II…
Carrier Replacement Program VCS CVN RCOH DDG-51 Class Multi-year Procurement DDG(X) DDG 1002 LHA and LPD Flight II…
Carrier Replacement Program VCS CVN RCOH DDG-51 Class Multi-year Procurement DDG(X) DDG 1002 LHA and LPD Flight II…
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 Carrier Replacement Program. No program-specific GAO finding for this line is in the ingested data. See the DOD oversight record.
Program dossier
Every sentence below carries its citation — warehouse figures open the citation panel, news claims link the cached source.
Research dossiers exist for 50 of 1,938 programs — the 50 largest fully J-book-detailed programs by FY2026 request. why no dossier here? →
What it is
- The Carrier Replacement Program funds construction of the Navy's Ford-class aircraft carriers under the Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy account.
- The Navy classifies the program as shipbuilding, covering Ford-class aircraft carrier construction.
- The Navy designed the Ford-class aircraft carrier with warfighting capability for the 21st century, incorporating advances such as a new reactor plant, propulsion system, electric plant, the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS), Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG), machinery control, and integrated warfare systems intended to increase lethality while lowering life-cycle costs through reduced maintenance and manning.
- The program's stated purpose is to provide credible, sustainable, independent forward presence during peacetime without land bases, to operate as the cornerstone of a joint or allied maritime expeditionary force in a crisis, and to carry the war to the enemy through joint multi-mission offensive operations.
- Two carriers, CVN 80 and CVN 81, were awarded under a two-ship buy, with CVN 80 as a separate contract line item under the same contract as CVN 81, allowing discrete hull costs to be captured.
- The CVN 80/81 construction contract is a Fixed Price Incentive (Firm Target) contract type intended to limit the Navy's liability and incentivize the shipyard's performance.
- The Advanced Procurement funding in fiscal year 2026 is the first of four years of advance procurement funding for CVN 82.
Why it matters
- The program received actual funding of about $1.73 billion (USD thousands: 1,729,021) in fiscal year 2024.
- Congress enacted about $1.36 billion (USD thousands: 1,359,124) for the program in fiscal year 2025.
- The fiscal year 2026 request for the program is about $1.66 billion (USD thousands: 1,658,738).
- The full fiscal year 2026 total for the program is about $1.66 billion (USD thousands: 1,658,738).
- Program budget detail records show cumulative all-prior-years funding of about $34.7 billion (USD millions: 34,672.79), reflecting the large sustained investment carrier construction requires.
- Ford-class carriers are designed with increased Service Life Allowances for weight and stability to enable future modernization over the ship's 50-year life cycle.
Key players
- Lobbying filings by Huntington Ingalls Industries Incorporated referenced the Carrier Replacement Program in a 2026 filing.
- Another 2026 lobbying filing from Huntington Ingalls Industries Incorporated also referenced the Carrier Replacement Program.
- Huntington Ingalls Industries Incorporated reported lobbying that referenced the Carrier Replacement Program in a 2025 filing.
- A 2025 lobbying filing from Huntington Ingalls Industries Incorporated also referenced the Carrier Replacement Program.
- Huntington Ingalls Industries Incorporated referenced the Carrier Replacement Program in a 2024 lobbying filing.
- Another 2024 lobbying filing from Huntington Ingalls Industries Incorporated referenced the Carrier Replacement Program.
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 · O499,O500
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 · O500,O501
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 · O512,O513
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.