that was just in time for the us navy who had been looking for a new high-speed system for the next generation computer resources (ngcr) project for passing sonar data around in their newly designed "seawolf"-class submarines, and they said they would standardize on futurebus if only a "few" more changes would be made. seeing a potential massive government buy, the additions effort started immediately on futurebus+. it took another four years for the futurebus+ standard to be released by this time custom variation of futurebus took the lead in industry.