The FY2027 President's Budget requests $4.0M for Protective Systems and Weapons Testing (PSWT) Program, within Homeland Security's Research and Development account. That is up 0.0% on the FY2026 figure of $4.0M, which is a continuing-resolution annualized figure, not an enacted appropriation.
FY2025–FY2027
| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | enacted | $4.0M |
| FY2026 | CR annualized | $4.0M |
| FY2027 | request | $4.0M |
The prior-year column is a CR annualized figure — the rate a continuing resolution funds at, not an enacted appropriation. The two are different numbers and are not interchangeable. Bases are separate columns and are never summed into one figure.
Homeland Security discretionary budget authority
From the OMB Public Budget Database — clean, summable, and the figure to cite for an agency total. It is the whole of Homeland Security's discretionary request, not a total of the parsed lines above, and this page never adds the two together.
What this funds
The PSWT program, as part of the OMS program, enables the U.S. Secret Service to refresh, update, and upgrade technical countermeasures to ensure a safe environment and provide enhanced security coverage for the President, Vice President, and other U.S. Secret Service protectees. This includes providing security for protectees at the White House Complex, the Vice President's Residence, and temporary sites, from emerging and evolving explosive, chemical, biological, radiological, and cyber threats. Problem: U.S. Secret Service must maintain state-of-the-art weapons and protective systems to combat new, evolving, and emerging adversarial technologies. Solution: The PSWT program provides for the development, design, testing, and evaluation of new technologies to ensure U.S. Secret Service has needed capabilities to respond to an evolving threat environment. Justification: The Budget provides $4.0M for this program. The OMS program supports the protection of the President, the Vice President, and other U.S. Secret Service protectees. The PSWT program provides for the research, development, test, and evaluation needs of the U.S. Secret Service to assess, plan, and prepare for future OMS activities. Funding will enable the U.S. Secret Service to substantially enhance and adapt to emerging threats and technology changes. Specifically, this funding supports solicitation, testing, and contract award to assess the effectiveness of both weapons and defensive countermeasures, to include methods and technologies that are unique to the U.S. Secret Service mission space. Additional details are available in a classified format. Impact: The development, design, testing, and evaluation activities will inform the procurement and deployment process for new weapons and protective systems that enhance Secret Service's protective capabilities. These efforts ensure that U.S. Secret Service continues its extremely effective protection of the President, Vice President, other protectees, and protected sites from emerging explosive, chemical, biological, radiological, and cyber threats.
Extracted from United States Secret Service, p. 5. Verbatim; nothing here is paraphrased.
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