What project BY2 buys
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).
Project BY2 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 | 41.7 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 9.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 26.7 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 29.7 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 16.3 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 14.2 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 11.7 |
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. Each describes FY2027 work in enough detail to have its own page; the rest are shown here in full. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
Will mature biological synthesis and biomanufacturing to produce multi-kilogram quantities of energetic materials for formulation assessments; design and develop AI models for additional bio-reachable precursors for advanced energetics applications; begin conducting experiments for scale-up of next precursor molecule; designs and…
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