# Energetics Advanced Technology

**R-2A activity** of project 356 — Energetics Advanced Technology  
**Program element:** 0603000D8Z — Joint Munitions Advanced Technology  
**Component:** Defense-Wide · **Budget Activity:** 3  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603000D8Z/356/a0  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603000D8Z/356

## Summary

This activity requests $28.0M in FY2027, 52% of project 356, up 34% on FY2026. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2025–FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2027 planned work.** - Develop methods via AIREX to create Maritime Fire Initiation and Fire Damage. - Demonstrate PBXIH-19 Reactive Material against dynamic targets showing improvements in blast effects. - Develop and demonstrate high energy pulse propulsion technology in tactical rocket motor configuration. - Develop an enhanced preformed fragmenting warhead integrated within cast bodies to demonstrate increased lethality. - Demonstrate extruded rocket motor technology to increase loadout of 4.75” rockets to support affordable mass missile fires. - Increased funding will deliver flight test demonstration of a full up Solid Fuel Ramjet Projectile.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** The increase of $7.071 million between FY 2026 and FY 2027 reflects budget fluctuations.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** - Demonstrate and deliver, for scale-up production, advanced energetic materials for munitions evaluation testing using end to end laboratory and pilot scale manufacturing through modern, continuous methods. - Conduct validation testing of advanced energetics combined with novel propulsion and warhead designs and demonstrate increased performance in lethality, range and speed. - Develop and test multiple effects explosives and warhead design to enhance overall weapon to target lethality. - Develop and test topology-optimized additively manufactured propellants that reduces rocket motor volume by 30% while maintaining performance. - Develop and conduct sub-scale testing of novel pulsed motors that enhance missile range and speed. - Begin to develop advanced energetics filled, minimum signature propellants for extended range tactical missiles. - Conduct in-water testing of survivable anti-maritime missile ordnance packages. - Complete lethality validation testing of submunitions with advanced energetics and CL-20 explosives.

**FY2025 accomplishments.** The project executes its mission by strategically expanding development of advanced energetics capability and improved industrial base capacity through novel processes and formulations: The project initiatives include: - Begin development of production methods for advance energetic ingredients and formulations with a focus on CL-20 compound production capacity, cost reduction, and formulation development. - Develop processing technologies using biomanufacturing byproducts streams and synthesize two energetics ingredients of interest at laboratory scale. - Develop advanced energetics material using end to end laboratory and pilot scale manufacturing through modern, continuous methods that use digital feedback and quality by design/control. - Conduct laboratory and subscale testing by combining advanced energetics with novel propulsion and warhead designs and demonstrate increased performance – target lethality, range and speed. - Begin development of machine learning modeling and simulation tools to allow optimization of energetics material formulation and processing. - Apply advanced energetics formulations, including CL-20, for missile delivered submunitions payload development that provide enhanced area effects and target defeat capabilities. - Begin testing and demonstration of missile submunitions advanced energetics payloads with precision targeting and effector technologies.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 31.2 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 20.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 28.0 |

> Prior, current and budget year only — an R-2A activity carries no five-year plan. It sums exactly into its project in the request year and not necessarily in any other.

## Other activities in project 356

- [CL-20 Development, Production, and Integration](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603000D8Z/356/a1) — FY2027 14.0
- Munitions - Affordable Cruise Missile Development (U) — FY2027 9.0
- High Reliability Cluster Munitions (HRCM) Development and Prototype Demonstration — FY2027 3.0

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0603000D8Z project 356 (PB PB2027). Narrative is the government's own text.
- **No marks, no contractors at this grain** — congressional marks land on the program element and R-3 performers on the project.
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_activity`.

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