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Medium Landing Ship
Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy · 1611N
Budget figures
$1.96B one-time reconciliation. Discretionary change vs FY2025 enacted: -100.0%.
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 in an ordinary year, and in FY2026 the one-time reconciliation appropriation as well. Each row below names the one it is. How the two bases relate →
FY26 Request · $1.96B TOA − $0 J-book line (a zero-dollar XML line) = 1.96B (1,963.9 − 0.0 = 1,963.9) — $1.96B of one-time FY2026 reconciliation money accounts for this gap — not advance procurement
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? →
| Fiscal year | Amount |
|---|---|
| FY24 | $0J-book detail · PB2026 |
| FY25 | $29.7MP-1 TOA · PB2026 |
| FY26 | $1.96BP-1 TOA · PB2026 |
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 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|
| Enacted | $29.7M | |
| Request | $268.1M | $1.96B |
blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.
Program lineage
This code is shared by more than one budget line. No predecessor or successor is assigned to this specific account or organization.
Description
Description — Medium Landing Ship
Medium Landing Ship (LSM) is a medium-sized landing ship that enables distributed maneuver and logistics such as Distributed Maritime Operations (DMO), Littoral Operations in a Contested Environment (LOCE), and Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations (EABO), in support of the Marine Littoral Regiment (MLR). It is designed to fill the gap in capability between the Navy's large, multipurpose amphibious warfare class ships and smaller landing vessels. This ship will deploy tailored logistics, select power projection and support strike capabilities via the embarked MLR. With the authorities granted in Section 128 of the FY 2025 National Defense Authorization Act, the LSM program will procure an existing design to construct Non-Developmental Vessels (NDV). This procurement is known as LSM Block 1. For the LSM Program, the Department requests a total of $1,963,941 thousand and a total quantity of nine. This request includes $0 thousand of discretionary and $1,963,941 thousand of mandatory (reconciliation) for a total of $1,963,941 thousand. The mandatory funds will be used to procure 9 ships. Further information for this reconciliation request is provided in Section 20002 (Shipbuilding) of the Reconciliation Exhibit.
Justification
Justification — Medium Landing Ship
The FY 2026 request for LSM includes $0 thousand of discretionary and $1,963,941 thousand of mandatory (reconciliation) for a total of $1,963,941 thousand. The mandatory funds will be used to procure 9 ships. Further information for this reconciliation request is provided in Section 20002 (Shipbuilding) of the Reconciliation Exhibit.
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 | FY25 Enacted | $29.7M |
| Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy | N | FY26 Reconciliation | $1.96B |
| Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy | N | FY26 Total | $1.96B |
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 | $0 | $0 | $29.7M | $0 | $0 |
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? →
Awards
No awards are linked to this program element at high or medium confidence — the budget→award crosswalk only asserts links it can defend, and this line has none yet.
Lobbying mentions
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Oversight
GAO oversight of this program
GAO assessed Medium Landing Ship (LSM) in its June 2025 Weapon Systems Annual Assessment, as a Navy Future Major Weapon Acquisition program.
“The Navy's LSM program is developing a medium-sized landing ship intended to transport 50 to 75 Marines and their associated supplies and fuel from shore to shore in contested environments. The Navy expects LSM to support the operations of the Marine Corps' Marine Littoral Regiments (MLR) and to provide distributed maneuverability, mobility, and logistics for near-shore operations. The Navy initially plans to procure 18 LSMs and up to 35 ships as operational plans are refined. MLRs became operational in 2023, so LSM is late to need.”
GAO-25-107569, p. 134 — the assessment page in GAO’s 2025 report
Earlier editions of the same assessment: June 2024
GAO assessed Medium Landing Ship (LSM) in its June 2024 Weapon Systems Annual Assessment, as a Navy Future Major Weapon Acquisition program.
“The Navy's LSM program, formerly the Light Amphibious Warship, is developing a medium-sized landing ship that is intended to transport 50 to 75 Marines and their associated supplies and fuel from shore to shore in contested operational environments. The Navy expects LSM to support the operations of the Marine Corps' new Marine Littoral Regiments (MLR) and to provide distributed maneuverability, mobility, and logistics in support of near-shore expeditionary operations. The Navy initially plans to procure 18 LSMs, although further Navy and Marine Corps refinement of the program's concept of operations may increase required quantities to 35 ships. Nine LSMs will be required for each MLR.”
GAO-24-106831, p. 162 — the assessment page in GAO’s 2024 report
GAO assessed the program, not this budget line. Medium Landing Ship is one of the lines that funds it, and GAO’s work above says nothing about this line’s own figures. Which line each GAO item attaches to is a hand-ratified crosswalk — how it was checked.
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 Medium Landing Ship. GAO's program-level work on this line is above. 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
- The Medium Landing Ship (LSM) program is a U.S. Navy shipbuilding effort, funded through the Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy account.
Why it matters
- For fiscal year 2026, the program has a total budget request of about $1.96 billion (roughly $1,963,941 thousand), a substantial commitment to constructing this new class of Navy ships.
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 · Q573
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2026_DoD_P-1_Procurement.xlsx.
FY2025 Department of Defense Budget: Procurement Programs (P-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit P-1 · S588
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.