Diving and Salvage Equipment

The Diving and Salvage Equipment program aims to provide critical diving and salvage equipment to support planned and emergent waterborne submarine/ship repairs, salvage and battle damage repair operations, search and recovery to water depths up to 20,000 feet of seawater, and Undersea Clandestine Insertion of Special Operations Forces (UCI-SOF). The program's specific objectives include increasing safety for divers, enhancing underwater ship maintenance capabilities, providing reliable and rapid response salvage capability, and reducing diving equipment maintenance costs by standardizing configuration of diving systems in the Fleet. The FY-24 investment focuses on phased replacement of aging life support equipment, procurement of new technology equipment for improved visual acuity in dark, limited visibility operations, upgrades to the Navy Experimental Diving Unit, and investments in Salvage and Underwater Ship Husbandry.

Program: Diving and Salvage Equipment (Navy)
The Diving and Salvage Equipment program's primary goal is to ensure the availability of critical diving and salvage equipment necessary for maintaining the operational readiness of the Navy fleet and enabling national priority missions. The program's objectives include providing increased safety for divers, enhancing underwater ship maintenance capabilities, ensuring reliable and rapid response salvage capability, and reducing diving equipment maintenance costs through standardization. The FY-24 investment focuses on procuring essential equipment such as surface-supplied diving helmets, composite air storage flasks, dive computers, compact diver life support system air supplies, as well as investing in new technology equipment that offers capability gains such as chamber van upgrades, transportable recompression chamber system chamber upgrade kits, augmented visual displays, 3D SONAR systems, among others. Additionally, investments are directed towards upgrades to the Navy Experimental Diving Unit to advance diving capabilities through research and testing.