What project DM5 buys
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).
Project DM5 funding, FY2026–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) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 94.2 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 23.1 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 23.8 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 52.2 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 52.5 |
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 continue to define and document operational objectives based on mission analysis; continue to perform modeling and simulation to refine desired system performance characteristics; select multiple industry partner missile system concepts for further technology maturation; conduct an initial design review for each missile concept…
Read the FY2027 plan →