# Joint Munitions Advanced Technology — Program Element 0603000D8Z

**Program element:** 0603000D8Z  
**Component:** Defense-Wide  
**Appropriation:** 0400 — RDT&E, Defense-Wide  
**Budget Activity:** 3 — Advanced Technology Development  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603000D8Z

## Summary

Defense-Wide funding ramps 42% to a $64.3M request in FY2027, sustained across the five-year plan. In the FY2027 defense authorization, the House funded it in full; the Senate funded it in full; House appropriators funded it in full.

## Funding profile

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 39.1 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 45.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 64.3 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 127.4 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 106.0 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 100.1 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 103.0 |

> Estimate types are not summed — the profile mixes actuals, enacted law, the request, and outyear projections.

## Congressional marks (FY2027)

| Stage | Marked ($M) | Change ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| Request | 64.3 | — |
| House NDAA (HASC) | 64.3 | +0.0 |
| Senate NDAA (SASC) | 64.3 | +0.0 |
| House Approps (HAC-D) | 64.3 | +0.0 |

> FY2027 NDAA authorization marks, as of 2026-07-27. Not appropriations or final law.

## Projects (3)

| Project | Title | FY2025 actual | FY2026 enacted | FY2027 request | Move |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 356 | Energetics Advanced Technology | 31.2 | 37.9 | 54.0 | +42% |
| 077 | Enhanced Munitions Advanced Technology | 7.9 | 7.4 | 10.3 | +38% |
| 203 | Joint Munitions Advanced Technology | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — |

> Projects are the summable leaves: the program element total is their sum, never added to it.

### Project 356 — Energetics Advanced Technology

U.S. weapons systems still largely rely on decades-old explosive and propellant technologies that limit Joint Force options to deter, and if necessary, defeat adversaries in conflict. The Energetics Technology project was established to expedite investigation, research, and transition of novel energetics materials, chemicals, and processes that enable improvements to existing and future munitions performance. The investments and efforts under this project enable modern manufacturing and processing while helping to bolster U.S. energetics supply chain resiliency. The Joint Enhanced Munitions Technology Program, Services, and OUSW(R&E) munitions stakeholders collaborate to generate technology roadmaps for advanced energetic research and development that include high-energy materials, such as Hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane (CL-20), and missile delivered submunitions and payloads.

| Activity (R-2A) | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetics Advanced Technology | 31.2 | 20.9 | 28.0 |
| CL-20 Development, Production, and Integration | — | 12.0 | 14.0 |
| High Reliability Cluster Munitions (HRCM) Development and Prototype Demonstration | — | — | 3.0 |
| Munitions - Affordable Cruise Missile Development (U) | 0.0 | — | 9.0 |

> R-2A activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan. Coverage is partial, so count them, never total them.

### Project 077 — Enhanced Munitions Advanced Technology

The Enhanced Munitions Advanced Technology project demonstrates advanced technologies that improve the performance, range, and lethality of existing and future weapons systems. This effort takes promising technologies demonstrated at the laboratory scale and matures them into demonstration programs with a focus on operationally relevant key munitions. Enhanced Munitions technologies that are matured and demonstrated in relevant environments to inform service requirements and transition into products for operational use, thereby decreasing program executive office program cost and risk. In FY 2026, the project continues the development of critical munitions technologies, such as advanced materials and designs, fuzing, power sources, seeker technologies, and counter countermeasure technologies that, when combined with advanced energetics, provide significant performance enhancements in range, speed, and target damage effects. This project applies machine learning, artificial intelligence, and advanced material technologies to inform and refine research efforts and enable next-generation kinetic weapons capabilities, including advances in propulsion, warhead effects, fuze technologies, and targeting technologies. The Munitions Advanced Technology project continues to address the critical munitions technologies and transition into munitions manufacturing base at scale with the following enhancements. Increases in weapon range and run time require higher energy density power sources for guidance, seekers, and other subsystems. Lethality increases are not only dependent on advanced energetics, but also depend on optimized munitions placement, burst point control, and survivable fuzing. Operations in highly contested scenarios also require technical resiliency, with systems capable of defeating adversary kinetic and non-kinetic countermeasures.

| Activity (R-2A) | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enhanced Munitions Advanced Technology | 7.9 | 7.4 | 10.3 |

> R-2A activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan. Coverage is partial, so count them, never total them.

### Project 203 — Joint Munitions Advanced Technology

The Energetics Maturation project continues investments in FY 2027 of Hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane (CL-20) advanced energetics development and formulation scale-up for incorporation into weapon systems.

## Mission & acquisition strategy

This program supports the Department's priority to reestablish deterrence through developing and demonstrating munitions technologies that deliver crosscutting capabilities to the Services to solve operational and mission-focused challenges. The Joint Enhanced Munitions Technology Program (JEMTP), within the Office of the Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering (OUSW(R&E)), was established to develop and demonstrate munitions enhancing technologies (energetics, warheads, propulsion systems, advanced lethality mechanisms, fuzes and fuze components, and target detection), to transition in support of future kinetic fires capabilities and ensure lethality advantage for U.S.

## Related program elements

- [0602000D8Z — Joint Munitions Technology](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602000D8Z) (Defense-Wide)
- [0603601F — Conventional Weapons Technology](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603601F) (Air Force)
- [0604797D8Z — Joint Energetics Transition Office (JETO)](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604797D8Z) (Defense-Wide)
- [0604602F — Armament/Ordnance Development](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604602F) (Air Force)

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-3, PE 0603000D8Z (PB PB2027); FY2027 NDAA committee marks (as of 2026-07-27).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0603000D8Z")`.

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