# Project CJ7 — Future Air Defense Missile Enabling Tech

**Program element:** 0602141A — Lethality Technology  
**Project:** CJ7  
**Component:** U.S. Army  
**Appropriation:** 2040 — RDT&E, Army  
**Budget Activity:** 2 — Applied Research  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602141A/CJ7  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602141A

## Summary

Project CJ7 — Future Air Defense Missile Enabling Tech requests $120.7M in FY2027, 52% of the $232.0M requested for program element 0602141A, up 2715% on FY2026. 1 R-2A activity decomposes the request.

## Funding profile

| 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 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0602141A; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## 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).

## Activities (R-2A) — 1

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Future Air Defense Missile Enabling Technology | 4.5 | 4.3 | 120.7 | +2715% | [a0](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602141A/CJ7/a0) |

> 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.

### Future Air Defense Missile Enabling Technology

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…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602141A/CJ7/a0

## 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/0602141A.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Army RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0602141A project CJ7 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0602141A")`.

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