What project 076 buys
The Enhanced Munitions project develops cross-cutting, enabling munitions technologies that are broadly applicable across service munitions. The project invests in sensors, sensor data fusion for navigation, propulsion, warheads, and fuzing that enable enhanced performance of U.S. munitions in both permissive and denied environments. The Enhanced Munitions project continues to address other critical munitions technologies outside of advanced energetics that enable the Energetics Technology project investments to be effectively incorporated into munitions systems. Lethality increases are not only dependent on advanced energetics but also depend on optimized munitions placement and burst point optimization. Munitions investments in survivability against harsh environments and adversary countermeasures are necessary to allow the munition to reach and prosecute its intended target. Starting in FY 2026, the Alternative Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) project will accelerate critical PNT technologies and PNT data needs to ensure munitions are accurate and lethal in GPS-denied or contested environments. Investments in munitions-specific PNT will be leveraging a modular open systems approach, which will increase technology development and flexibility to have specific PNT solutions for any given munition.
Project 076 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 | 5.8 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 5.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 16.3 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 22.7 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 25.9 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 28.5 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 31.0 |
2 accomplishments / planned programs
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. 1 of them 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.
- Combine AI fuzing algorithms with a munitions fuze radar configuration to increase lethality in variable target encounter engagement conditions. - Investigate novel low-cost technology protection for munitions advanced electronics which can be applicable to multiple weapons systems and multiple electronic systems within those weapons…
Read the FY2027 plan →FY2027 planned work -Develop and evaluate sensors, data fusion techniques and algorithms to apply and deliver more accurate and robust alternative PNT technologies for munitions. - Develop and evaluate software defined radios (SDR) that provide communications and navigation information needed to enable high-value Alt-PNT concepts. - Develop electronically tunable weapon surface mount antennas enabling multi/wide band RF operation for navigation tracking.
FY2026 to FY2027 change FY 2027 increase of $6.120 million is due to investment in high-priority Alternative Position, Navigation, and Timing technologies for munitions.