What project 077 buys
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.
Project 077 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 | 7.9 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 7.4 |
| FY2027 | Request | 10.3 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 22.5 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 29.6 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 41.8 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 42.9 |
1 accomplishment / planned program
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. Each 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.
- Demonstrate End-to-End Machine Learning (ML) Fuze Radar developing field prototypes for testing to show improved proximity fuze performance and increased resistance to countermeasures. - Implement active bypass control to regulate fuel flow and respond to inlet unstart conditions to demonstrate significant increases to solid fuel…
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