# Long Range Precision Fires Advanced Technology — Program Element 0603464A

**Program element:** 0603464A  
**Component:** U.S. Army  
**Appropriation:** 2040 — RDT&E, Army  
**Budget Activity:** 3 — Advanced Technology Development  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603464A

## Summary

U.S. Army funding ramps 129% to a $422.6M request in FY2027 — the program's peak, before stepping down 65% across the five-year plan. In the FY2027 defense authorization, the House added 1.8% (to $430.1M); the Senate added 1.8% (to $430.1M); House appropriators added 12% (to $474.1M).

## Funding profile

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 174.2 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 184.2 |
| FY2027 | Request | 422.6 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 173.9 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 159.1 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 152.8 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 149.8 |

> Estimate types are not summed — the profile mixes actuals, enacted law, the request, and outyear projections.

## Congressional marks (FY2027)

| Stage | Marked ($M) | Change ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| Request | 422.6 | — |
| House NDAA (HASC) | 430.1 | +7.5 |
| Senate NDAA (SASC) | 430.1 | +7.5 |
| House Approps (HAC-D) | 474.1 | +51.5 |

> FY2027 NDAA authorization marks, as of 2026-07-27. Not appropriations or final law.

## Projects (6)

| Project | Title | FY2025 actual | FY2026 enacted | FY2027 request | Move |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ8 | PrSM Modular Payload Advanced Development | 38.0 | 74.1 | 224.8 | +204% |
| DM5 | Affordable High Speed Strike | — | 0.5 | 94.2 | +18707% |
| AF2 | Long Range Maneuverable Fires (LRMF) Advanced Tech | 89.2 | 69.0 | 62.5 | −10% |
| BY2 | Advanced Hypersonic Technology | 41.7 | 9.9 | 26.7 | +170% |
| CE9 | Armaments Advanced Technology | 5.3 | 5.7 | 14.4 | +153% |
| BO8 | Long Range Precision Fires Advanced Tech (CA) | — | 25.0 | — | −100% |

> Projects are the summable leaves: the program element total is their sum, never added to it.

### Project CZ8 — PrSM Modular Payload Advanced Development

This project directly supports Precision Fires capabilities by maturing and demonstrating critical technologies for autonomous, Cluster Munition policy compliant, enhanced lethality payloads deployed from Precision Strike Missile to autonomously and cooperatively find and engage the full spectrum of deep moved, moving, dispersed, and poorly located targets in areas with contested access at extended ranges. Direct Support Fires Technology effort matures and demonstrates cost-effective rocket technology to increase the ability to mass fires to achieve lethal effects against artillery targets with initial volley fires to minimize logistics tail and maximize organizational structure, while achieving reduced cost per kill. Tactical Overmatch Missile Technology effort will provide technology maturation to support a ground launched extended range anti-armor maneuverable missile capable of defeating current and future advanced armor threats, active protection systems, and field fortification from both line of sight and beyond line-of-sight (BLOS) cooperative and simultaneous engagements. Work in this project complements Program Element (PE) 0602147A (Long Range Precision Fires Technology). Work in this project is performed by the Aviation & Missile Center (AvMC).

| Activity (R-2A) | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) Advanced Development/PrSM Modular Payload | 2.8 | 10.0 | 41.6 |
| Sensor Fuzed Weapon Development | 35.2 | 64.1 | 98.3 |
| Direct Support Fires Tech (DSFT) | — | — | 84.9 |

> R-2A activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan. Coverage is partial, so count them, never total them.

### Project DM5 — Affordable High Speed Strike

This project directly supports Precision Fires capabilities by developing, maturing, and demonstrating affordable high speed strike missile technologies for responsive, mobile, deployable, survivable, and sustainable Army conventional theater strike weapons unconstrained by previous treaties. Provide hardware and software technologies demonstrated, including affordable advanced propulsion, complementary warhead, guidance, navigation and control technologies, and integration onto Army mobile launch platforms. The Army needs affordable, responsive high speed strike capability to attack theater level targets, provide offensive counter-air capability, and be launched from Army mobile, deployable, and survivable platforms. Work in this project complements Program Element (PE) 0603464A (Long Range Precision Fires Advanced Technology) / Project BY2 (Advanced Hypersonics Technology), PE 0602147A (Long Range Precision Fires Technology) / Project AF8 (Affordable Extended Range Precision Tech and Program) and Project AF3 (Extended Range Propulsion Tech) Work in this project is performed by the Aviation & Missile Center (AvMC).

| Activity (R-2A) | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AHSS Technology Maturation | — | 0.5 | 94.2 |

> R-2A activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan. Coverage is partial, so count them, never total them.

### Project AF2 — Long Range Maneuverable Fires (LRMF) Advanced Tech

This project directly supports Precision Fires capabilities by developing, maturing and demonstrating next generation Multi-Domain Operations extended range weapon system technology for Precision Strike Missile to increase survivability, penetration, and range in complex Anti Access/Area Denial (A2/AD) and denied environments. This project also includes both the maturation and demonstration of advanced extended range missile technology and autonomous, unmanned launcher technology. The combination of these technologies offers the potential to dramatically increase force projection through increases in range, firepower, and magazine depth. Work in this project complements Program Element (PE) 0602147A (Long Range Precision Fires Technology) / Project AF8 (Affordable Extended Range Precision) and Project AF3 (Extended Range Propulsion Tech). Work in this project is performed by the Aviation & Missile Center (AvMC).

| Activity (R-2A) | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Long Range Maneuverable Fires (LRMF) Advanced Tech | 89.2 | 69.0 | — |
| Missile CL-20 Warhead | — | — | 24.6 |
| Low Cost Cruise Missile (LCCM) Enhancements | — | — | 37.9 |

> R-2A activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan. Coverage is partial, so count them, never total them.

### Project BY2 — Advanced Hypersonic Technology

This project directly supports Precision Fires capabilities by developing and maturing critical technologies for strategic missiles. Technology development includes critical technologies to improve strategic missile components such as advanced structures and materials, thermal protection systems, navigation systems, data links, and seekers/terminal sensors. Work in this project complements Program Element (PE) 0603464A (Long Range Precision Fires Advanced Technology) / Project AF2 (Long Range Maneuverable Fires (LRMF) Advanced Tech); PE 0603464A (Long Range Precision Fires Advanced Technology) / Project DM5 (Affordable High Speed Strike), and PE 0602147A (Long Range Precision Fires Technology) / Project AF8 (Affordable Extended Range Precision Technology). Work in this project is performed by the Aviation & Missile Center (AvMC) and Army Research Laboratory (ARL).

| Activity (R-2A) | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hypersonics Advanced Technology | 41.7 | 9.9 | 26.7 |

> R-2A activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan. Coverage is partial, so count them, never total them.

### Project CE9 — Armaments Advanced Technology

Improve defeat of imprecisely located and relocated/moving targets by leveraging and advancing component technologies in armament technologies (multi-mode g-hardened seekers for cross spectrum targeting, advanced guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) and in-flight update technologies). Work in this project complements PE 0602141A (Lethality Technology) / Project AH9 (Advanced Warheads Technology) and PE 0602147A (Long Range Precision Fires Technology) / Project AG4 (Extended Range Artillery Munition Suite Technology) and Project BN5 (Fuze and Power for Munitions). Work in this project is performed by the Armaments Center (AC).

| Activity (R-2A) | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strategic Armaments Advanced Tech | 5.3 | 3.9 | 4.3 |
| Zonable Artillery Propulsion System | — | 0.9 | — |
| Multidomain Artillery Munition Adv Tech | — | 0.8 | 5.4 |
| Accurate Affordable Indirect Massed Fires (AAIM) | — | — | 2.5 |
| Armament Based BOP Mitigation | — | — | 2.2 |

> R-2A activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan. Coverage is partial, so count them, never total them.

### Project BO8 — Long Range Precision Fires Advanced Tech (CA)

Congressional Interest Item funding provided for Long Range Precision Advanced Technology. The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy.

## Mission & acquisition strategy

This Program Element (PE) matures and demonstrates Long Range Precision Fires (LRPF) technologies to destroy, neutralize, or suppress the enemy by cannon artillery and missile fire and enable integration of fire support assets into combined arms operations. Major Focus Areas for LRPF Science and Technology include: Missiles, Cannon Artillery, and Supporting LRPF Technologies covering Strategic, Operational and Tactical Lines of Effort. LRPF Missiles Advanced Development matures and demonstrates a broad range of Missile technologies to enhance Army integrated LRPF capabilities at extended range.

## Related program elements

- [0602147A — Long Range Precision Fires Technology](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602147A) (Army)
- [0604182A — Hypersonics](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604182A) (Army)
- [0605798D8Z — Defense Technology Analysis](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605798D8Z) (Defense-Wide)
- [1160403BB — Aviation Systems](https://hitchintel.com/programs/1160403BB) (Defense-Wide)

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Army RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-3, PE 0603464A (PB PB2027); FY2027 NDAA committee marks (as of 2026-07-27).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0603464A")`.

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