Items less than $5 Million

LI 6060 - Items less than $5 Million is a Navy budget line item under Other Procurement, Navy, focused on Civil Engineering Support Equipment. The primary goal of this program is to procure specialized vehicles and equipment to support a wide range of Navy expeditionary, logistics, and construction operations. These assets are essential for repair, rearming, resupplying, and sustaining operations at shore installations and advanced naval bases. They directly support home station training, operational plan (OPLAN) response, and cooperation with partner nations.

Special Purpose Vehicles - Expeditionary encompasses the procurement of vehicles such as runway sweepers, dump trucks, stake trucks, water distribution trucks, and utility repair trucks. These vehicles are critical for the Naval Construction Force, Naval Beach Group, and Naval Special Warfare, enabling distributed maritime operations (DMO), expeditionary advanced base operations (EABO), and contested logistics. The program also supports the establishment of a Pacific-focused Naval Cargo Handling Battalion, which enhances the Navy's vertical launch system reload capability for surface combatants at multiple locations.

Combat Construction Support Equipment - Expeditionary provides responsive military construction support during operations, including the construction of base facilities and limited defensive operations. Key equipment includes containers for rapid mobilization, fuel and water storage tanks, water purification units, power distribution panels, and tension fabric structures for expeditionary facilities. These assets ensure operational integrity and sustainability during contingency and wartime operations. They also support core mission requirements and humanitarian assistance/disaster relief efforts.

Mobile Utilities Support Equipment (MUSE) consists of electric power generation plants, substations, and switch gear. MUSE is intended to provide short-term utility support in response to equipment failures, planning changes, ship support, testing, and outages due to natural disasters. The FY26 budget emphasizes recapitalizing aging generator and substation equipment, addressing a current inventory that meets only a portion of generation capability and is insufficient for CONUS prime power missions.

Ocean Construction Equipment includes specialized tools and facilities for underwater site selection, construction, inspection, maintenance, and repair. The program sustains the Navy's ability to conduct ocean facility surveys and repairs, which are vital for maintaining fleet readiness through the utilization of underwater infrastructure. FY26 funds are allocated for underwater survey systems, sonar systems, and construction equipment to support these operations.

Special Purpose Vehicles (BSO 41 and BSO 30) cover a variety of non-tactical vehicles and trailers, such as aircraft refuelers, ammunition trucks, maintenance vehicles, sweepers, tank trucks, and armored response vehicles. Armored response vehicles support the Navy Nuclear Deterrence Mission by providing security forces with armored vehicles to deter and respond to unauthorized access at Strategic Weapons Facilities. Procurement is driven by the need to replace vehicles that have reached or exceeded their service life due to age and usage.

Maintenance Support Equipment (BSO 60) funds the acquisition of specialized equipment for Navy Expeditionary Combat Command forces, including facility modifications and infrastructure not covered by other funding sources. Notable procurements for FY26 include a hyperbaric chamber for EOD command at Naval Station Rota and side-loader forklifts, which are necessary for ordnance yard operations and support newly constructed magazines.