# Project DM5 — Affordable High Speed Strike

**Program element:** 0603464A — Long Range Precision Fires Advanced Technology  
**Project:** DM5  
**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/DM5  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603464A

## Summary

Project DM5 — Affordable High Speed Strike requests $94.2M in FY2027, 22% of the $422.6M requested for program element 0603464A, up 18707% on FY2026. 1 R-2A activity decomposes the request.

## Funding profile

| 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 |

> 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 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).

## Activities (R-2A) — 1

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AHSS Technology Maturation | — | 0.5 | 94.2 | +18707% | [a0](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603464A/DM5/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.

### AHSS Technology Maturation

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…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603464A/DM5/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 DM5 (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.*