# Project RG — CWMD TECHNOLOGIES AND CAPABILITIES DEVELOPMENT

**Program element:** 0603160BR — Counter Weapons OF MASS Destruction Advanced Technology Development  
**Project:** RG  
**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/0603160BR/RG  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603160BR

## Summary

Project RG — CWMD TECHNOLOGIES AND CAPABILITIES DEVELOPMENT requests $328.4M in FY2027, 64% of the $509.2M requested for program element 0603160BR, up 43% on FY2026. 1 R-2A activity decomposes the request.

## Funding profile

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 230.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 230.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 328.4 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 330.5 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 327.5 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 312.8 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 313.1 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0603160BR; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## What project RG buys

The Counter Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) Technologies and Capabilities Development project develops advanced technologies and weapon concepts and validates their applicability to CWMD. Research 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. Enable rapid capability delivery supports urgent warfighter operational requirements in countering WMD and emerging threats, often below the level of armed conflict. This research develops and delivers urgent CWMD capabilities to provide Combatant Commands a competitive advantage against WMD-capable adversaries with a focus on innovative, agile, achievable, and effective technology solutions for DoW sensitive and classified programs, Combatant Command hybrid warfare support, and competition below the level of armed conflict. Counter emergent threat technologies research develops and transitions a full spectrum of new technologies to counter emergent WMD threats providing combatant commanders improved offensive capabilities in support of near-peer emerging threats and counter-proliferation missions that combat weapons of mass destruction. This research supports the U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) in two areas: (1) counter proliferation research is a collaborative effort to develop advanced, warfighter-unique technologies to defeat WMD development and acquisition pathways, to include defeat of the devices themselves, while minimizing risks to U.S. forces; and (2) counter emerging threats concepts and technologies to integrate and synchronize activities that prevent violent extremist organizations and rogue nation states from developing, acquiring, proliferating, or using WMD. This effort supports Commander, USSOCOM responsibilities under the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Unified Command Plan. Counterforce technologies research develops, integrates, demonstrates, and transitions advanced sensors, surveillance, and target defeat planning technologies to enable the warfighter to hold WMD-related targets at risk. There are three core research efforts in this project: Technical Reconnaissance; CWMD Weapons Effects; and, Applied CWMD Computational, Physical and Life Science Research.

## Activities (R-2A) — 1

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RG: Counter WMD Technologies and Capabilities Development | 230.0 | 230.0 | 328.4 | +43% | [a0](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603160BR/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

- Mature Full Dimensional Defeat Enterprise functionality featuring studies, analysis, reporting and Combatant Command exercise support; furthering development of agent-based modeling for system of systems analysis of WMD targets and expanding functional agent libraries and facility templates, including larger system of facilities and…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603160BR/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/0603160BR.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0603160BR project RG (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0603160BR")`.

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