What project CE9 buys
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).
Project CE9 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 | 5.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 5.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 14.4 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 20.2 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 20.6 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 15.0 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 15.1 |
5 accomplishments / planned programs
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. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
FY2027 planned work Will demonstrate payloads at sub-scale level; validate structural configurations and form/fit/function of component technology in an integrated payload configuration; mature payload designs for integration into munition and begin validation of functionality.
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding increase reflects increased number of demonstrations to validate payloads at the sub-scale level
FY2026 plans — current year Will mature payload designs and interfaces to provide optimized effectiveness and capabilities within the 155mm operational mission space; begin validation of gun launch survivability models and payload effectiveness through testing of subsystem technologies and demonstrations.
FY2027 planned work Will mature multi-modal seeker technologies to support electro-optical/infrared and radio frequency (RF) synthetic aperture radar imaging sensors; exploit hardware in the loop to mature precision technologies for in-flight and terminal engagement; mature advanced RF effects to improve in-flight munition survivability.
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding increase reflects maturation of multi-modal seeker technologies and hardware in the loop validation.
FY2026 plans — current year Will mature advanced targeting and course correction technologies for continued operations in a contested battlespace; exploit emerging technologies to improve munition survivability and requirements for engagement salvos; mature precision component technologies for in-flight targeting and terminal engagement to deliver lethal and non-lethal enhanced tactical fires effects across domains of operation.
FY2025 accomplishments Will optimize advanced targeting capabilities, multi-modal navigation, kinematic maneuver authority, course correction, collaborative and in-flight targeting, and terminal engagement mechanisms and technologies for artillery systems; mature energetics, warheads, fuzing, and precision component technologies into artillery munitions and submunitions to provide lethal and non-lethal enhanced tactical fires effects for multi-domain operations.
FY2027 planned work Will mature a suite of targeting technologies to achieve reduced dispersion; begin validating technologies via modeling of incremental improvements to dispersion.
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding increase reflects initiation of this effort. Funding will be used to begin validating technologies via modeling of incremental improvements to dispersion.
FY2027 planned work Will provide upgrade kits to upgrade M777; demonstrate manned firing via soldier touch points and user engagements in support of a Transformation in Contact (TiC) event.
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding increase reflects the strategic realignment of resources to support evolving priorities and objectives. Funding increase reflects user engagements and Soldier Touch Points.
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding decrease reflects termination of this effort.
FY2026 plans — current year Will mature ignition system performance for artillery charge systems by leveraging advanced propellent initiation mechanisms.