What project 674609 buys
The Minuteman Minimum Essential Emergency Communication Network (MEECN) Program (MMP) Service Life Extension Program (SLEP) will enable the legacy MMP System that is beyond end-of-life to continue to provide Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Forces with a survivable link for reception of Emergency Action Messages (EAMs) from the President and Secretary of War (SECWAR). MMP is a Command and Control (C2) system directly supporting the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the National Command Center and the Strategic Nuclear Command Centers. MMP provides super high-frequency (SHF) down-link/extremely high-frequency (EHF) up-link and very low-frequency (VLF)/low-frequency (LF) messaging support for Minuteman III ICBM Launch Control Centers (LCCs). The MMP SLEP is needed to support the Minuteman III weapon system, beyond its expected service life of 2030. The significant delay to the Sentinel requires life extension program of the current Minuteman III system, and subsystems that include MMP. Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages (DMSMS) have resulted in spare parts being in short supply. Without a SLEP, access to MMP spare parts will become increasing difficult, resulting in extended system downtime and high repair costs. The MMP operational availability will continue to decrease, and future modifications will not be addressed creating a significant gap in capability, further reducing our nation's nuclear deterrence. This program element included all necessary expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver weapon system capability. The use of such program funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program elements 0605829F, 0605831F, 0605833F, and 0605898F.
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Project 674609 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 11.4 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 24.0 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 25.0 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 18.0 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 0.0 |
1 accomplishment / planned program
The R-2A exhibit — the only level of the budget that describes work that has not happened yet. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only, no five-year plan. Each describes FY2027 work in enough detail to have its own page; the rest are shown here in full. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
Continue further development with Prime Contractor - Hold System Requirements Review (SRR) and System Functional Review (SFR) - Conduct Preliminary Design Review (PDR) - Conduct analysis to design VLF receiver for new waveform - Conduct analysis to integrate new VLF receiver waveform with existing hardware/software - Conduct prototyping…
Read the FY2027 plan →Named performers on project 674609
Performers named in the R-3 exhibit under this project. Share is of the project's whole FY2027 R-3 total — the same denominator the program-element split uses, so the two read on one scale and will not sum to 100% when unnamed or government work is in the mix. Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations.