Project 63670A
$131.4MFY2027 request ▲ 135%Weapon Technology Development
FY2025 actual$69.2M
FY2026 enacted$55.9M
FY2027 request$131.4M
FY2027 Request
$131.4M
▲ 33% vs FY2026
House mark
$128.4M
▼ $3.0M vs request
FY2026 Enacted
$98.6M
In law
Roll-up of 2 projects. Projects are the summable leaves — the PE total is their sum, never added to it.
For fiscal year 2027, the U.S. Air Force is requesting $131.4M for Conventional Weapons Technology under RDT&E program element 0603601F, up 33% over FY2026. In the FY2027 defense authorization, House moved to cut it to $128.4M.
Funding trajectory
Funding profile, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP) House mark
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 117.9 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 98.6 |
| FY2027 | Request | 131.4 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 139.8 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 165.8 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 161.6 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 147.6 |
Where it sits
Acquisition lifecycle
This program is funded in RDT&E Budget Activity 3 — Advanced Technology Development.
Complete
Research
BA 1–2
Current
Advanced Technology
BA 3
Later
Prototyping
BA 4
Later
Development & Fielding
BA 5–7
Inside the program element
2 projects roll up into PE 0603601F
Projects are the summable leaves — the PE total is their sum, never added to it. Program elements and projects carry the full five-year plan; activities stop at the budget year. This PE moves 33% overall, which can hide much larger swings below.
Project 63670B
$0.0MFY2027 request ▼ 100%Weapon Concept Development
FY2025 actual$48.7M
FY2026 enacted$42.7M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Congressional action
The request is contested
Committee marks on the FY2027 request. Adds and cuts are reconciled in conference before they become law.
RequestPresident's Budget
$131.4M
House NDAA (HASC)HASC
$128.4M −$3.0M · −2.3%
Senate NDAA (SASC)SASC
$131.4M full · +$0
House Approps (HAC-D)HAC_D
$131.4M full · +$0
▲ $3.0M chamber gap — unresolved as of 2026-07-27. These are FY2027 authorization marks (NDAA); appropriations and the conference agreement may differ.
Program detail
Mission & acquisition strategy
This program develops, integrates, and demonstrates advanced ordnance and guidance technologies for conventional weapons. This program focuses on integration by design and starting with desired mission effect to deliver war winning capabilities to defend the homeland, provide nuclear deterrence, and deliver force projection. The effort focuses on conventional ordnance component technologies such as warheads, fuzes, and explosives, as well as munition guidance component technologies such as navigation and control systems and seekers.
Project 63670A, 63670B — Weapon Technology Development
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FY2027 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification · Exhibits R-2 / R-3 · PE 0603601F (President's Budget PB2027) — and FY2027 NDAA committee marks, as tracked 2026-07-27.
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/programs/0603601F.md · MCP mcp.hitchintel.com → budget_get_program_element, budget_get_cong_marksFY2027 Request
$131.4M
▲ 135% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$55.9M
▼ 19% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$69.2M
Prior year
Weapon Technology Development — one RDT&E project inside PE 0603601F. Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, not on a project.
Project 63670A — Weapon Technology Development — requests $131.4M in FY2027, 100% of the $131.4M requested for program element 0603601F. Year over year it grows 135% against FY2026.
Funding trajectory
Project 63670A funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 69.2 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 55.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 131.4 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 139.8 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 165.8 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 161.6 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 147.6 |
Inside the project
4 accomplishments / planned programs
The R-2A exhibit. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan — and they are descriptive: coverage is partial and they do not always add back to the project, so count them, never total them. Opening lines only here — the full year-by-year narrative is on the project page.
FY2025 actual$33.9M
FY2026 enacted$27.4M
FY2027 request$44.2M
- Complete demonstrating and assessing advanced distributed, embedded fuzing concepts for weapons long-term safety, survivability, and functionality, maturing high-speed weapon technologies to increase effectiveness across a diverse target set. Activities include finalizing technical data package and delivering for operational use…
Read the FY2027 plan →FY2025 actual$35.3M
FY2026 enacted$28.5M
FY2027 request$46.0M
- Complete integration of hardware-in-the-loop, software-in-the-loop, and other modeling and simulation technologies for the demonstration of open architecture, high-speed, networked, collaborative and autonomous, and modular munition concepts, breaking vendor lock with maturing weapon system open architecture standards. Activities…
Read the FY2027 plan →FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$19.9M
- Complete developing the technology trade space to enable air-to-air weapons with robust capability in the future threat environment, including technologies for efficient propulsion, long-range, high lethality, efficient flight, high agility, miniaturization, as well as cost and risk reduction for both offensive and defensive purposes…
Read the FY2027 plan →FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$21.2M
- Continue technology risk reduction including demonstration and flight testing for weapons concepts responsive to the future threat environment (including hypersonic and high-speed concepts), focusing on maturing and demonstrating advanced propulsion, advanced seekers, alternative navigation, and multi-mission ordnance technologies…
Read the FY2027 plan →Project detail
What project 63670A buys
This project advances conventional weapons technology by developing, maturing, assessing, and demonstrating innovative ordnance and guidance components and subsystems to reduce risk for potential weapon acquisitions, concentrating on Air-to-Air and Air-to-Ground Concept Development via integration by design and starting with desired mission effect to deliver war winning capabilities to defend the homeland, provide nuclear deterrence, and deliver force projection. System level integration and demonstration of advanced weapon system technologies (seekers, aerodynamics, navigation, control, guidance, energetics, fuze, warhead, and ordnance) in a near-realistic operational environment enhance performance and supportability of existing and future weapons systems while reducing the risk and time required to transition technologies into operational platforms.
FY2027 Request
$0.0M
▼ 100% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$42.7M
▼ 12% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$48.7M
Prior year
Weapon Concept Development — one RDT&E project inside PE 0603601F. Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, not on a project.
Project 63670B — Weapon Concept Development — requests $0.0M in FY2027, 0.0% of the $131.4M requested for program element 0603601F. Year over year it falls 100% against FY2026.
Funding trajectory
Project 63670B funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 48.7 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 42.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 0.0 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 0.0 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 0.0 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 0.0 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 0.0 |
Inside the project
2 accomplishments / planned programs
The R-2A exhibit. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan — and they are descriptive: coverage is partial and they do not always add back to the project, so count them, never total them. Opening lines only here — the full year-by-year narrative is on the project page.
Air-to-Air Concept Development▼ 100%
FY2025 actual$23.6M
FY2026 enacted$20.7M
FY2027 request$0.0M
In FY 2027, the Air-to-Air Concept Development effort and associated plans & funding transferred within this Program Element to Project 63670A/ Weapon Technology Development, to provide Congress with improved understanding and traceability of the discrete Munitions technology areas in Research, Development, Test & Evaluation (RDT&E), Air…
Air-to-Ground Concept Development▼ 100%
FY2025 actual$25.1M
FY2026 enacted$22.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
In FY 2027, the Air-to-Ground Concept Development effort and associated plans & funding transferred within this Program Element to Project 63670A/ Weapon Technology Development, to provide Congress with improved understanding and traceability of the discrete Munitions technology areas in Research, Development, Test & Evaluation (RDT&E)…
Project detail
What project 63670B buys
This project develops, refines, integrates, demonstrates, and assesses ordnance and guidance technologies to reduce risk for potential conventional weapons acquisitions. The project concentrates in two effort areas, Air-to-Air Concept Development and Air-to-Ground Concept Development. The project focuses on risk reduction of advanced explosives, fuzes, warheads, sub-munitions, and weapon airframes, carriage and dispensing; as well as innovative munition seekers, weapon aerodynamics, navigation and control, and guidance subsystem integration/simulation.