# Project RG — CWMD TECHNOLOGIES AND CAPABILITIES DEVELOPMENT

**Program element:** 0602718BR — Counter Weapons OF MASS Destruction Applied Research  
**Project:** RG  
**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/0602718BR/RG  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602718BR

## Summary

Project RG — CWMD TECHNOLOGIES AND CAPABILITIES DEVELOPMENT requests $29.9M in FY2027, 19% of the $157.3M requested for program element 0602718BR, up 11% on FY2026. 1 R-2A activity decomposes the request.

## Funding profile

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 31.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 26.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 29.9 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 30.5 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 31.1 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 31.8 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 32.4 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0602718BR; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## What project RG buys

Counter Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) Technologies and Capabilities Development encompasses the following areas: Defeat Technologies supports Combatant Commands through research, development, and transition of offensive weapons and other capabilities to counter Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) while mitigating collateral contamination effects. Technology development focuses on the physical or functional defeat of WMD threat materials, an adversary's ability to deliver the same, and the physical and nonphysical support networks enabling both. It does so through the systematic identification and maturation of technologies capable of defeating WMD agents or agent-based processes and selecting technologies for integration into weapons, delivery systems, or rapid WMD elimination capabilities. This effort includes developing specific WMD agent/agent-based process simulants, sub-scale test infrastructure, and sampling capability required for effective development, testing, and evaluation of next-generation CWMD capabilities. The project places a high priority on understanding, characterizing, and validating potential weapon effects within mathematical confidence as it relates to the unintended release of hazardous threat materials. Energetics research develops materials and weapon design technology providing defeat capabilities for engaging hard and deeply buried targets that are beyond current high explosive blast/fragmentation warhead technology. Technologies with the potential for weapon and capability integration are transitioned to Budget Activity 3, Advanced Technology Development efforts. On a limited basis, technology test data is shared with coalition partners. WMD counterforce technologies research develops weapons effects modeling algorithms, full and sub-scale test series required to investigate CWMD weapon effects and sensor performance, and visualization and situational awareness tools to support the next generation Technical Reachback cell. These activities are critical enablers for the development of advanced CWMD planning tools. This effort couples long-range fundamental and applied research with technology development in the physical, life, and computational sciences to support kill chain activities in countering emerging WMD threats.

## Activities (R-2A) — 1

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RG: Counter WMD Technologies and Capabilities Development | 26.3 | 26.9 | 29.9 | +11% | [a0](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602718BR/RG/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.

### RG: Counter WMD Technologies and Capabilities Development

- Provide foundational research tool to 500-1000 analysts which utilizes deep data extraction algorithms with a biomanufacturing ontology to identify research in this domain, people (researchers/authors), places (institutions/facilities) worldwide, chemical precursors, biomass source, production methods, and equipment linked to potential…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602718BR/RG/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/0602718BR.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0602718BR project RG (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0602718BR")`.

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