# Project BY2 — Advanced Hypersonic Technology

**Program element:** 0603464A — Long Range Precision Fires Advanced Technology  
**Project:** BY2  
**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/BY2  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603464A

## Summary

Project BY2 — Advanced Hypersonic Technology requests $26.7M in FY2027, 6.3% of the $422.6M requested for program element 0603464A, up 170% on FY2026. 1 R-2A activity decomposes the request.

**Markets:** Hypersonic Strike — matched on the project title only, and no market size is quoted.

## Funding profile

| 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 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0603464A; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## 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).

## Activities (R-2A) — 1

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hypersonics Advanced Technology | 41.7 | 9.9 | 26.7 | +170% | [a0](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603464A/BY2/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.

### Hypersonics Advanced Technology

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…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603464A/BY2/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/0603464A.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Army RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0603464A project BY2 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0603464A")`.

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