What project 622405 buys
This project investigates, analyzes, and develops applied technologies that enable future multi-Mach, responsive high-speed/hypersonic weapons and platforms (vehicles) via modeling, simulation and analysis (MS&A), and ground and flight tests. The extreme conditions high-speed/hypersonic weapons and platforms are subjected to manifest as complex multi-disciplinary technical challenges, namely: structure/system durability, broad operability from Mach 0 to Mach 5+ (multi-Mach operability), vehicle-level integrated power and thermal management, and integration of mission systems. The development of technical solutions to these multi-disciplinary challenges at the subsystem level, and the subsequent integration of them at the system level, is critical to reduce the risk and time required to transition technologies into operational systems. Digital material management, and validation via ground test capability are utilized to develop and deliver an integrated digital environment (IDE) to assess technology, evaluate its impacts, and make capability-focused investment decisions. Aerospace Systems Technologies, received a Congressional add for FY2026 $2.500 million for Hypersonic high-speed aerodynamics research. Upon Congressional spend plan approval, an Internal Reprogramming (IR) will be processed aligning the funding to PE0601102F for proper execution.
Project 622405 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 41.1 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 87.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 157.0 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 133.8 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 145.3 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 139.1 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 139.2 |
3 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. 2 of them describe FY2027 work in enough detail to have their own page; the rest are shown here in full. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
Continue development and demonstration of advanced, high-speed engine components. Activities include: -Advancing efficient combustor designs, evaluating inlet/isolator and nozzle performance and integration, and developing power-thermal-management solutions that enhance system durability leading to reduced design and manufacturing…
Read the FY2027 plan →Continue critical technology maturation for increased service life of high speed/ hypersonic systems with secondary emphasis on longer range flight and heavier payloads. Activities include: -Assessments for service life and durability of metallic and hybrid vehicle structures, including joint compliance and fatigue life. -Design…
Read the FY2027 plan →FY2027 planned work In FY 2027, the funding and technical activities from this effort were realigned to High-Speed Systems Technology Development and High-Speed Propulsion Technology Development effort within this Project.
FY2026 to FY2027 change FY 2027 funding decreased compared to FY 2026 by $15.352 million due to the transfer of the High-Speed Vehicle Aeromechanics Technology Development effort within this Project to enable acceleration of integrated system and propulsion capabilities and capture realistic representation of integrated aeromechanical work.
FY2026 plans — current year Continue to mature critical technologies for high speed/hypersonic flight with primary emphasis on durable, survivable systems and secondary emphasis on longer range and heavier payloads; -Activities include studies of low-speed performance, configuration trades, and data collection on high-speed platforms operating outside of cruise conditions. Continue development of multi-disciplinary design and analysis techniques and tools with emphasis on the digital engineering environment; -Activities include vehicle geometry, trajectory and performance evaluations. Continue development of high-speed system concepts that provide revolutionary capabilities through configuration research; -Activities…