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CVN Refueling Overhauls
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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 · $1.78B TOA − $2.26B J-book line = -483.1M (1,779.0 − 2,262.1 = -483.1)
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 | $530.9M |
| FY25 | $1.48B |
| FY26 | $1.78B |
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 | $2.84B | $674.1M | $530.9M | ||
| Enacted | – | $674.1M | $817.6M | $1.48B | |
| Request | – | – | $817.6M | $1.06B | $1.78B |
blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.
Asked vs spent: the PB2024 book requested $817.6M for FY2024; the PB2026 book reported $530.9M as actual total obligation authority — $286.8M below the request. 530.87 − 817.65 = -286.78 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 — CVN Refueling Overhauls
To support and operate aircraft to engage in attacks on targets afloat and ashore which threaten our use of the sea and to engage in sustained operations in support of other forces. The refueling of the reactors and repair and upgrade of the main propulsion equipment will provide for reliable operations during its remaining 23 plus years of ship life using only the normal maintenance cycle.
Justification
Justification — CVN Refueling Overhauls
FY 2026 is the second of three years of full funding for CVN 75. The CVN 75 RCOH starts in FY 2026 with five years of advance procurement from FY 2020 to FY 2024 and three years of full funding from FY 2025 to FY 2027. Section 123 of the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act limits the use of incremental funding for a period not to exceed six years after advance procurement funds for such nuclear refueling and complex overhaul effort are first obligated (October 2020). The budget supports the planned start of construction at HII-NNS in June 2026. The full funding request for CVN 75 RCOH includes $92.0M of funding to complete the delivery of parking garages, programmable space, and additional enhancements for the multi-use facility in FY 2026, initially funded in FY 2024. These procurements support sailor quality of service initiatives. FY 2026 Cost to Complete funding for CVN 74 cost growth and time related charges due to an additional 13 month delivery delay ($483.1M). Previously appropriated OPN represents reactor power units procured for CVN 74-77 RCOHs. Funding was included with the end cost per Section 1018 of the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act.
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 | $530.9M |
| Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy | N | FY25 Enacted | $1.48B |
| Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy | N | FY26 Disc. Request | $1.78B |
| Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy | N | FY26 Total | $1.78B |
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 | $31.4B | $530.9M | $1.48B | $2.26B | $2.26B |
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 |
|---|---|
| VA-03 | $5.29B |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| HUNTINGTON INGALLS INC | N0002413C2108 | high |
| HUNTINGTON INGALLS INC | N0002417C2105 | high |
| HUNTINGTON INGALLS INC | N0002418C2106 | high |
| HUNTINGTON INGALLS INC | N0002424C2106 | 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 CVN Refueling Overhauls. No program-specific GAO finding for this line is in the ingested data. See the DOD oversight record.
Program dossier
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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
- CVN Refueling Overhauls is a Navy shipbuilding program that pays for refueling the nuclear reactors of aircraft carriers (CVNs) and performing what the Navy calls a Refueling and Complex Overhaul (RCOH). It is funded through the Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy account.
- The program's stated purpose is to support and operate aircraft that engage targets afloat and ashore threatening U.S. use of the sea, and to sustain operations in support of other forces. Refueling the reactors and repairing and upgrading the main propulsion equipment is meant to provide reliable operations during the ship's remaining 23-plus years of service using only the normal maintenance cycle.
- The current focus is the aircraft carrier CVN 75. Fiscal year (FY) 2026 is the second of three years of full funding for CVN 75, whose RCOH starts in FY 2026 after five years of advance procurement (FY 2020 to FY 2024) and three years of full funding (FY 2025 to FY 2027).
- The Navy classifies this program under shipbuilding, describing it as nuclear carrier refueling and complex overhaul funded in Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy.
Why it matters
- The FY 2026 request for the program is about $1.78 billion (1,779,011 USD thousands), a large increase over the $530.9 million (530,868 USD thousands) actually spent in FY 2024.
- For comparison, the FY 2025 enacted level was about $1.48 billion (1,480,314 USD thousands), showing the funding climb as the CVN 75 overhaul ramps up.
- Federal law shapes how the money can be spent: Section 123 of the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act limits the use of incremental funding to a period not exceeding six years after advance procurement funds for the refueling and complex overhaul were first obligated (October 2020). The budget supports the planned start of construction at HII-NNS in June 2026.
- Part of the FY 2026 request reflects cost overruns on an earlier carrier: it includes Cost to Complete funding for CVN 74 cost growth and time-related charges tied to an additional 13-month delivery delay, totaling $483.1 million.
- The full funding request for CVN 75 also includes $92.0 million to complete delivery of parking garages, programmable space, and other enhancements for a multi-use facility in FY 2026 — investments described as supporting sailor quality-of-service initiatives.
Key players
- The program is run by the Department of the Navy.
- Construction of the CVN 75 overhaul is planned to start at HII-NNS (Huntington Ingalls Industries – Newport News Shipbuilding) in June 2026.
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 · O530,O531
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 · O518,O519,O520
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 · O534,O536
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.