# Project 076 — Enhanced Munitions

**Program element:** 0602000D8Z — Joint Munitions Technology  
**Project:** 076  
**Component:** Defense-Wide  
**Appropriation:** 0400 — RDT&E, Defense-Wide  
**Budget Activity:** 2 — Applied Research  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602000D8Z/076  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602000D8Z

## Summary

Project 076 — Enhanced Munitions requests $16.3M in FY2027, 51% of the $32.1M requested for program element 0602000D8Z, up 185% on FY2026. 2 R-2A activities decompose the request, 1 new this cycle.

## Funding profile

| 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 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0602000D8Z; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## 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.

## Activities (R-2A) — 2

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enhanced Munitions | 5.8 | 5.7 | 10.2 | +78% | [a0](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602000D8Z/076/a0) |
| Alternative Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) for Weapons | — | — | 6.1 | new | — |

> Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan. In the request year they partition this project exactly; in earlier years they can under-cover it.

### Enhanced Munitions

- 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…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602000D8Z/076/a0

### Alternative Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) for Weapons — NEW START

**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.

## What is NOT on this page

Congressional marks, the R-2 mission description and acquisition strategy, the industry vs government split of the whole request, and related program elements are recorded at **program-element** grain — an NDAA mark lands on a PE, never on a project. They are at https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602000D8Z.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0602000D8Z project 076 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0602000D8Z")`.

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