# Protective Systems and Weapons Testing (PSWT) Program

**Agency:** Homeland Security  
**Account:** Research and Development  
**Source document:** United States Secret Service · p. 5  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/budget/homeland-security/protective-systems-and-weapons-testing-pswt-program  

> **Trust:** parsed from the agency Congressional Justification. Approximate, **not summable**, verify at the cited page.

## Funding ($M)

| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FY2025 | enacted | 4.0 |
| FY2026 | CR annualized | 4.0 |
| FY2027 | request | 4.0 |

The prior-year column is a CR annualized figure, not an enacted appropriation.


## Homeland Security discretionary budget authority (OMB PBDB — authoritative)

FY2027 $91.40B, FY2026 $88.60B. This is the agency total, not a sum of the parsed lines.


## 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.


**Where it sits:** Civilian / Non-Defense › Homeland Security › United States Secret Service › Research and Development › Research and Development


*HitchAI is an independent intelligence service, not affiliated with the U.S. government. Civilian line dollars are parsed from agency Congressional Justifications and are approximate.*