What project 625171 buys
This project develops rocket propulsion technologies for the design, development, and fabrication of strategic systems (including solid boost/missile motors, post boost control, aging and surveillance efforts), and tactical missiles. Analytical and experimental areas of emphasis are propellants, propellant management, combustion, rocket material applications, model-based system engineering, digital design of manufacture and test, test stand live-fire testing, and technology for sustainment of strategic systems. This project develops the next generation of physics-based Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis (MS&A) tools for rapid and agile missile propulsion design, analysis, and production, as well as the digital engineering concepts to manage the entire process of design, test, and validation of solid rocket motors through live-fire tests. All efforts in this project contribute to the sustainment of the rocket propulsion industry, providing rocket propulsion technology for the entire DoD. All efforts are reviewed by a DoD level steering committee yearly for relevance to DoD missions.
Project 625171 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 | 36.9 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 34.2 |
| FY2027 | Request | 34.9 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 36.1 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 36.8 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 37.6 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 38.4 |
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. 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.
Continue to devise, synthesize, scale-up, test, and characterize novel energetic ingredients for efficient propulsion capabilities for solid rocket motors, rocket engines and related propulsion systems. Activities include: -Integration of advanced propellant manufacturing techniques and components into tactical-size motors for validation…
Read the FY2027 plan →FY2027 planned work Not Applicable
FY2026 plans — current year Transfer of work and fundings Missile Propulsion Technology Development effort.
FY2027 planned work Not Applicable
FY2026 plans — current year Transfer of work and fundings Missile Propulsion Technology Development effort.