# Compact Variant (CV)

**R-2A activity** of project 0457 — AIM-9X  
**Program element:** 0207161N — Tactical Aim Missiles  
**Component:** U.S. Navy · **Budget Activity:** 7  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0207161N/0457/a1  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0207161N

## Summary

This activity requests $83.3M in FY2027, 68% of project 0457, up 13018% on FY2026. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2026–FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2027 planned work.** The program will advance hardware and software designs. This effort will focus on design and development of critical hardware components and compatibility with advanced platforms. The overall scope includes platform integration, material and energetics studies, and extensive modeling, simulation, and analysis. Activities will also incorporate system safety analysis, the establishment of requisite integration and test environments, risk-reduction testing, and other engineering efforts necessary to mature the complete system baseline.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** FY 2026 to FY 2027 increase for design and development of critical hardware components and advancing software designs for CV development on advanced platforms. CV efforts were previously funded as risk reduction on the software improvement program under Product Development.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** FY 2026 Plans: Continue funding risk reductions on SIP IV for CV.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.6 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.6 |
| FY2027 | Request | 83.3 |

> 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 0457

- [Product Development](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0207161N/0457/a0) — FY2027 29.9
- Test and Evaluation Activities and Support — FY2027 9.1
- Management Services — FY2027 0.2

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Navy RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0207161N project 0457 (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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