# Advanced Weapons Integration

**R-2A activity** of project 675039 — B-52 System Improvements  
**Program element:** 0101113F — B-52 Squadrons  
**Component:** U.S. Air Force · **Budget Activity:** 7  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0101113F/675039/a5  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0101113F/675039

> **NEW START.** $45.0M requested in FY2027 with no prior-year and no current-year funding.

## Summary

This activity requests $45.0M in FY2027, 36% of project 675039 — a new start with no prior-year and no current-year money. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2027 planned work.** Engineering & Manufacturing Development (EMD) to enable the B-52 to launch weapons currently in development. This may include hypersonic weapons too large for internal carriage capacity or other classified efforts underway. FY2027 plans begin acquisition activities to field a new heavy hypersonic weapon currently in development. Program activities will include safe separation of the weapons from external pylons (i.e. AWWP), necessary SIL work to ensure system safety protocols are in place, Universal Armament Interface updates, crew working groups to ensure full capabilities of the missiles can be used in an operational environment at operational timelines, incorporating classified capabilities of the latest variants onto the B-52, and other various required programmatic activities that allows weapons employment. Contracts are already established to begin work on integrating new weapons on the B-52.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Increase for additional advance weapons

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 45.0 |

> Prior, current and budget year only — an R-2A activity carries no five-year plan. It sums exactly into its project in the request year and not necessarily in any other.

## Other activities in project 675039

- [Long Range Anti-Ship Missile/ Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (LRASM/JASSM)](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0101113F/675039/a3) — FY2027 50.3
- [Advanced Wing Weapon Pylon (AWWP)](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0101113F/675039/a4) — FY2027 30.0
- Advanced Concept Demonstration — FY2027 1.0
- B-52 Systems Improvements — FY2027 0.0
- B-52 Advance Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) Integration — FY2027 0.0

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0101113F project 675039 (PB PB2027). Narrative is the government's own text.
- **No marks, no contractors at this grain** — congressional marks land on the program element and R-3 performers on the project.
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_activity`.

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