# Project MD25 — Advanced Technology Development

**Program element:** 0603180C — Advanced Research  
**Project:** MD25  
**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/0603180C/MD25  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603180C

## Summary

Project MD25 — Advanced Technology Development requests $460.2M in FY2027, 95% of the $482.6M requested for program element 0603180C, up 512% on FY2026. 1 R-2A activity decomposes the request.

## Funding profile

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 49.5 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 75.2 |
| FY2027 | Request | 460.2 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 926.6 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 1,015.4 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 736.6 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 890.8 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0603180C; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## What project MD25 buys

The threat is evolving and becoming more complex, which introduces new challenges for missile defense. Some of these complex challenges include the volume of threats, system performance in raids, latency across the kill chain, communication between disparate systems, performance in a contested environment and cybersecurity of networks/systems. These challenges to missile defense require more disruptive capabilities like the following: - Kinetic & hypersonic defense in the areas of advanced sensing and low-cost systems. - Non-kinetics and electronic warfare. - Next generation command, control & integration. - Disruptive technology and space demonstrations. - NIC. - Cyber Protection / Information Assurance. The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Advanced Capability Office provides enhancements to the missile defense system by focusing on accelerated delivery of disruptive capabilities to the warfighter by pursuing rapid prototypes and demonstrations with incremental capability deliveries. The activities utilize two/three-year technology sprints and lean project teams to support rapid development and transition to the Warfighter for evolving regional and homeland missile threats. The funds requested in this PE provide both legacy and Global Missile Defense Capability development for the United States, its deployed forces, allies, and partners. The capabilities funded by this budget request are complementary to the architecture funded by the Golden Dome Program's separate budget request and together fulfill the President's Executive Order 14186. The President's January 27, 2025, Executive Order established a goal of protecting the U.S. citizens, safeguarding critical infrastructure, and securing second-strike capability against missile attack from any adversary. This program and budget in addition to the budget requested by the Golden Dome Program Office reflects the changes necessary to protect the U.S. against ballistic, hypersonic, cruise, and other advanced missile threats.

## Activities (R-2A) — 1

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Advanced Research | 49.5 | 75.2 | 460.2 | +512% | [a0](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603180C/MD25/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.

### Advanced Research

Planned efforts in support of advancing disruptive capabilities to include, but not limited to: National Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) Center (NIC): - Distribute integrated multi-domain, multi-service live, virtual and constructive system into a hybrid physical and virtual platform using a phased approach to field NIC initial…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603180C/MD25/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/0603180C.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0603180C project MD25 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0603180C")`.

*HitchAI is an independent intelligence service, not affiliated with the U.S. Department of Defense. Budget figures are requests/estimates, not obligations.*