What project CJ7 buys
This project investigates, develops, and evaluates critical missile technologies and components necessary for advanced lethal capability in support of future/mid to far term affordable short range air defense interceptor capability to defeat Cruise Missile (CM), Rotary Wing (RW), Tactical / Lethal Unmanned Aerial System (UAS), and Fixed Wing (FW) threats. This effort designs and develops technologies to provide advanced materials, seekers, guidance and control, and propulsion for reduced size weight and power and cost for Maneuver Short Range Air Defense (MSHORAD), Short Range Air Defense (SHORAD), and Lower Tier essential to maintain overmatch against mid-/far-term threats. This project will investigate, identify and develop advanced radar concepts, technologies and signal processing algorithms to enable multi-mission radar functions and expanded threat capability. This project supports Air and Missile Defense Modernization priority efforts. Work in this project complements Program Element (PE) 0602147A (Long Range Precision Fires Technology) / Project AF3 (Extended Range Propulsion Technology) and Project AF8 (Affordable Extended Range Precision Technology), PE 0603135A / Counter Small Unmanned Aerial Systems (C-SUAS) Advanced Techno logy/ Project A32 / Counter Small Unmanned Aircraft Sys (C-sUAS) Adv, and PE 0602135A / Counter Small Unmanned Aerial Systems (C-SUAS) Applied Research / Project A31 / Counter Small Unmanned Aircraft Sys (C-sUAS) Tech. Work in this project is performed by the Aviation & Missile Center (AvMC).
Project CJ7 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 | 4.5 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 4.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 120.7 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 3.9 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 5.9 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 6.6 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 6.6 |
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.
Will validate modeling and simulation of highly loaded grain (HLG) propulsion technology for air defense interceptor applications through lab testing; validate enhanced lethality from reactive material warhead solutions to improve modeling for lower- tier air and missile defense and C-UAS applications; conduct experiments to validate the…
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