What project MD71 buys
ACPA centralizes advanced technology concept modeling, simulation, software, and analysis. Integrating models of promising disruptive technical solutions into Missile Defense System system-level simulations enables leadership to make data driven acquisition and technology investment decisions. Assess concepts that improve or adapt existing systems to address capability gaps and increase readiness to act in defending the Homeland and its Allies. Examples of efforts required to quantify the contribution of disruptive technologies may include, but are not limited to, environmental experimentation and phenomenological characterization required for new sensor concepts, advanced weapon technologies, and emerging directed energy concepts. In addition, facilitate stakeholder collaboration on advanced concepts to ensure transition into functional areas and programs of record. Using a technology development testbed approach, ACPA enables assessment and characterization of disruptive and incremental technology improvements to inform requirements and evaluate missile defense elements, components, and/or sub-component technologies and to assess maturity as it relates to readiness for transition to the future Missile Defense System. ACPA promotes informed decision making early in the acquisition life-cycle to maximize investments and successful transition into the Missile Defense System.
Project MD71 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 | 16.6 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 26.2 |
| FY2027 | Request | 0.0 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 0.0 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 0.0 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 0.0 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 0.0 |
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. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
FY2027 planned work No funding is requested in FY 2027.
FY2026 to FY2027 change Decrease from FY 2026 to FY 2027 reflects the transfer of requirements from PE 0603176C ACPA into PE 0603180C Advanced Research. This action provides for accelerated development of advanced capabilities, demonstrations, and prototypes to counter rapidly evolving threats by utilizing investments in disruptive technologies.
FY2026 plans — current year Congressional Add: Magnesium Coating for Aerospace ($5.0 million) - Develop, optimize, test, and scale up magnesium coating process for relevant missile defense applications. Congressional Add: Power Source for Directed Energy Orbital Missile Defense Systems ($3.0 million) - Demonstrate technology feasibility of critical components within power source design. Congressional Add: Guam Defense System Engagement Enhancement ($1.5 million) - Enhances Guam's defense readiness against the demand of evolving Indo-Pacific threats by optimizing defensive engagements and producing automated time series of engagement decisions. This effort supports the Pacific Deterrence Initiative.