# Project 634920 — Aerospace Systems Integration & Demonstration **Program element:** 0603211F — Aerospace Technology Dev/Demo **Project:** 634920 **Component:** U.S. Air Force **Appropriation:** 3600 — RDT&E, Air Force **Budget Activity:** 3 — Advanced Technology Development **Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027 **Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603211F/634920 **Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603211F ## Summary Project 634920 — Aerospace Systems Integration & Demonstration requests $260.2M in FY2027, 100% of the $260.2M requested for program element 0603211F, up 138% on FY2026. 7 R-2A activities decompose the request, 6 new this cycle. **Markets:** IT & Software Services, IT Systems Design & Integration — matched on the project title only, and no market size is quoted. ## Funding profile | Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) | |---|---|---| | FY2025 | Actual | 24.3 | | FY2026 | Enacted | 109.2 | | FY2027 | Request | 260.2 | | FY2028 | Outyear | 291.6 | | FY2029 | Outyear | 312.8 | | FY2030 | Outyear | 236.5 | | FY2031 | Outyear | 183.2 | > Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0603211F; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them. ## What project 634920 buys This project demonstrates advanced aerospace system technologies. Aerospace system technology integration efforts are accomplished through integration of various technologies to include autonomy, power and thermal, propulsion (rocket, turbine, scramjet, etc.), air vehicle and weapon systems for demonstration in near realistic operational environments and ranging from subsonic, supersonic, to hypersonic speeds. Advanced aerospace system technologies are demonstrated to enhance the capability of current and future aerospace systems. Aerospace Technology Dev/Demo, received a Congressional add for FY 2026 $2.500 million for HITECH Beam Director Development. Upon Congressional spend plan approval, an Internal Reprogramming (IR) will be processed aligning the funding to PE0603605F for proper execution. ## Activities (R-2A) — 7 | Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | High-Speed Propulsion Integration and Demonstration | 0.0 | 0.0 | 94.4 | new | [a3](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603211F/634920/a3) | | High-Speed Systems Integration and Demonstration | 0.0 | 0.0 | 80.1 | new | [a2](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603211F/634920/a2) | | Air Breathing Propulsion Integration and Demonstration | 0.0 | 0.0 | 30.0 | new | [a1](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603211F/634920/a1) | | Missile Propulsion Integration and Demonstration | 0.0 | 0.0 | 25.8 | new | [a6](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603211F/634920/a6) | | Autonomous Systems Control Integration and Demonstration | 0.0 | 0.0 | 12.1 | new | [a4](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603211F/634920/a4) | | Power &Thermal Systems Integration and Demonstration | 0.0 | 0.0 | 10.3 | new | [a5](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603211F/634920/a5) | | Aerospace Vehicle Integration and Demonstration | 24.3 | 8.7 | 7.5 | −13% | — | > 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. ### High-Speed Propulsion Integration and Demonstration — NEW START Continue development and integration of larger scale scramjet component technologies. - Activities include evaluating thrust performance, structural integrity, and operability to drive higher-performance propulsion solutions while enabling more affordable, durable, and reusable system designs. Continue technology maturation activities to… Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603211F/634920/a3 ### High-Speed Systems Integration and Demonstration — NEW START Continue technology maturation activities to investigate performance capabilities of responsive strike hypersonic platforms. - Activities include demonstrating improved performance, thermal management, structural feasibility, and operability at higher Mach speeds, advancing toward more affordable, reusable high-speed systems. Continue… Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603211F/634920/a2 ### Air Breathing Propulsion Integration and Demonstration — NEW START Continue new engine technologies to deliver reduced takeoff length, increased range, loiter, combat maneuverability, and lower cost for affordable unmanned aerial systems in contested environments. - Activities include design and development of augmentor test rigs. Complete advanced propulsion air frame integration experiments to enable… Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603211F/634920/a1 ### Missile Propulsion Integration and Demonstration — NEW START Continue development and testing of solid rocket motors relevant to defense needs for rapid and agile manufacturing, propulsion capability, high performance tactical demonstrations, and for use in missiles and rockets. - Activities include scale up toward flight-weight tests of tactical motors developed through additive manufacturing… Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603211F/634920/a6 ### Autonomous Systems Control Integration and Demonstration — NEW START Complete development of advanced contingency management capabilities required for credible affordable mass. - Deliver contingency management strategies and capabilities to enable affordable mass in high-speed systems. Commence development of autonomy architecture and communication changes for contingency management. - Activities include… Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603211F/634920/a4 ### Power &Thermal Systems Integration and Demonstration — NEW START Continue development of component technologies - Activities include design advancement of intelligent power distribution, design advancement of engine-agnostic power generation, and planned initial testing of affordable power generator hardware. Complete aircraft-scale power generation subsystem concept design - Activities include… Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603211F/634920/a5 ### Aerospace Vehicle Integration and Demonstration **FY2027 planned work.** Complete integrated flight demonstrations of sensor variant of low-cost unmanned platform to provide mission performance assessment of various payloads as-configured on the sensor variant. - Activities include integrated flight demonstrations of sensing mission payloads and configurations on an unmanned platform to deliver knowledge products for integration and a technology testbed. Commence full integration and demonstration of autonomy, power and thermal management, and key mission systems in flight on unmanned autonomous collaborative flight vehicles. - Activities include spiral development of vehicle technologies and digital designs to evaluate system effectiveness in technology integration and flight vehicle performance of autonomous collaborative platform systems. **FY2026 to FY2027 change.** FY 2027 decreased compared to FY 2026 by $1.128 million due to programmatic adjustments to the DAF Science and Technology portfolio. This reduction reflects a strategic realignment to optimize core research areas and improve resource efficiency. **FY2026 plans — current year.** Complete ground testing of the affordable unmanned non-kinetic weapon platforms for affordable mass via future autonomous collaborative unmanned platform payload capabilities -Activities include ground tests to confirm airworthiness retention due to configuration modifications. Complete integrated demonstrations of mission systems to the sensor variant of the low-cost unmanned platform for affordable mass via follow-on flight demonstrations of various sensor mission enabled aircraft for initial assessment. -Activities include design and physical implementations of various sensing mission payloads; airworthiness assessment of aircraft as configured. Complete technology demonstration of a forward, non-kinetic weapons-capable low-cost unmanned aerospace system for affordable mass with mission relevant future unmanned platform capabilities -Activities include studies, analysis, and ground demonstration. Commence integration flight demonstrations of the sensor variant of the low-cost unmanned platform to provide mission performance assessment of various payloads as-configured on the sensor variant -Activities include flight demonstrations of various integrated sensing mission payloads and configurations. ## 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/0603211F. ## Source & machine access - **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0603211F project 634920 (PB PB2027). - **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0603211F")`. *HitchAI is an independent intelligence service, not affiliated with the U.S. Department of Defense. 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