# Project 63670A — Weapon Technology Development

**Program element:** 0603601F — Conventional Weapons Technology  
**Project:** 63670A  
**Component:** U.S. Air Force  
**Appropriation:** 3600 — RDT&E, Air Force  
**Budget Activity:** 3 — Advanced Technology Development  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603601F/63670A  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603601F

## Summary

Project 63670A — Weapon Technology Development requests $131.4M in FY2027, 100% of the $131.4M requested for program element 0603601F, up 135% on FY2026. 4 R-2A activities decompose the request, 2 new this cycle.

## Funding profile

| 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 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0603601F; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## 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.

## Activities (R-2A) — 4

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guidance Technologies | 35.3 | 28.5 | 46.0 | +62% | [a1](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603601F/63670A/a1) |
| Ordnance Technologies | 33.9 | 27.4 | 44.2 | +62% | [a0](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603601F/63670A/a0) |
| Air-to-Ground Concept Development | 0.0 | 0.0 | 21.2 | new | [a3](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603601F/63670A/a3) |
| Air-to-Air Concept Development | 0.0 | 0.0 | 19.9 | new | [a2](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603601F/63670A/a2) |

> 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.

### Guidance Technologies

- 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…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603601F/63670A/a1

### Ordnance Technologies

- 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…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603601F/63670A/a0

### Air-to-Ground Concept Development — NEW START

- 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…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603601F/63670A/a3

### Air-to-Air Concept Development — NEW START

- 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…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603601F/63670A/a2

## 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/0603601F.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0603601F project 63670A (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0603601F")`.

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