Printed from https://fiscalreceipts.com/program/5201/ — built September 26, 2026. Every figure is citation-backed; see the page online for per-number provenance.
Auxiliary Vessels (Used Sealift)
Budget figures
$45.0M discretionary + $100.0M one-time reconciliation. Discretionary change vs FY2025 enacted: -78.0%.
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 · $145.0M TOA − $45.0M J-book line = 100.0M (145.0 − 45.0 = 100.0) — $100.0M 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? →
Budget trajectory
| Fiscal year | Amount |
|---|---|
| FY24 | $142.0M |
| FY25 | $204.9M |
| FY26 | $145.0M |
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 | $299.9M | $133.0M | $142.0M | ||
| Enacted | – | $133.0M | $142.0M | $204.9M | |
| Request | – | – | $142.0M | $204.9M | $145.0M |
blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.
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 — Auxiliary Vessels (Used Sealift)
For the Auxiliary Vessels (Used Sealift) Program, the Department requests a total of $145,000 thousand and a total quantity of one. This request includes $45,000 thousand of discretionary funding and $100,000 thousand of mandatory (reconciliation) funding. The mandatory and discretionary funds support the contract award for one ship. Further information for this reconciliation request will be provided in Section 20002 (Shipbuilding) of the Reconciliation Exhibit. This funding is required to recapitalize the U.S. surge sealift fleet. The principal enabler for recapitalizing the U.S. surge sealift fleet is through ship procurements and upgrades of used commercial vessels via the Ready Reserve Force (RRF) Recapitalization program. Strategic sealift is a key enabler of U.S. power projection and supports the afloat movement of equipment and supplies for major ground combat operations. During surge deployments, approximately 90% of Marine Corps and Army combat equipment is transported by sea, under the operation of U.S. Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM). The RRF, managed by the U.S. Department of Transportation's (DOT) Maritime Administration (MARAD), is the primary force of the surge sealift fleet. As a key element of strategic sealift, the RRF is specifically structured to transport military unit equipment and supplies during the initial surge of U.S. combat forces deploying anywhere in the world. This fleet consists of 48 government-owned ships with an average age of 43 years; a majority of these ships have already exceeded their expected service life, limiting their supportability and adding significant risk to their operational readiness. As a result, the Joint Force requires 18 ships over the next 5 years to replace anticipated sealift capacity losses. In FY 2023, the Navy purchased three FY 2022 funded used vessels. These vessels have all been delivered, completed post-delivery modification, outfitting and sea trials, and were ready for tasking beginning in the third quarter of FY 2024. These three vessels provide 660 thousand square feet of capacity to the RRF. In FY 2024, the Navy purchased one FY 2023 funded used vessel, and one FY24 funded used vessel. These vessels were delivered to MARAD in December 2024 and are in the process of completing post-delivery modifications and regulatory overhauls. These two vessels are sister ships of the three purchased in FY 2023 and will complete post-delivery modification, outfitting and sea trials and be ready for tasking beginning in the first quarter of FY 2026. These two vessels will provide an additional 440 thousand square feet of capacity to the RRF. MARAD has identified up to ten more vessels to purchase with FY 2025 funds, two of which are sister ships of the most recently purchased FY 2024 vessels. The Navy has already conducted on-site surveys of an additional class of vessels and plan to award contracts for purchase of up to two vessels with FY 2025 funding by the fourth quarter of FY 2025. With procurement of one vessel in FY 2026, the Navy will have procured the maximum allowable number of used ships authorized by law (10 ships).
Justification
Justification — Auxiliary Vessels (Used Sealift)
The FY 2026 request for Used Sealift includes $45,000 thousand of discretionary and $100,000 thousand of mandatory (reconciliation) for a total of $145,000 thousand. The mandatory funds partially funds the 1 Used Sealift Vessel procured under discretionary funding. 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 | FY24 Actuals | $142.0M |
| Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy | N | FY25 Enacted | $204.9M |
| Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy | N | FY26 Disc. Request | $45.0M |
| Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy | N | FY26 Reconciliation | $100.0M |
| Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy | N | FY26 Total | $145.0M |
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 | $492.9M | $142.0M | $204.9M | $45.0M | $45.0M |
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? →
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
6 mentions from the Senate LDA disclosure database.
House (HR 5371) and Senate (S 2882) Fiscal Year 2026 Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act - monitored…
House (HR 4016) and Senate (no bill number) Fiscal Year 2026 Department of Defense Appropriations Bill -- issues and…
House (HR 8774) and Senate (S 4921) Fiscal Year 2025 Department of Defense Appropriations Bill -- issues and funding…
House (HR 8774) and Senate (S 4921) Fiscal Year 2025 Department of Defense Appropriations Bill - issues and funding…
House (HR 8774) and Senate (S 4921) Fiscal Year 2025 Department of Defense Appropriations Bill - issues and funding…
House (no bill number) and Senate (no bill number) Fiscal Year 2025 Department of Defense Appropriations Bill - issues…
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 Auxiliary Vessels (Used Sealift). 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: Procurement Programs (P-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit P-1 · O595
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 · O584
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 · O609
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.