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.
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.
| 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 |
2 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 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 Force, Budget Activity (BA) 3.
FY2026 to FY2027 change FY 2027 funding decreased compared to FY2026 by $20.665 million due to the transfer of the Air-to-Air Concept Development effort and associated funding 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 Force, Budget Activity (BA) 3.
FY2026 plans — current year - Continue 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, focusing on maturing and demonstrating missile component technologies to increase range, loadout, lethality, and agility. - Continue developing and testing propulsion systems to enable solid rocket motor performance at low-cost for significantly increased air-to-air weapon range and load-out. - Continue conducting lethality analysis and ground tests to…
FY2027 planned work 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), Air Force, Budget Activity (BA) 3.
FY2026 to FY2027 change FY 2027 funding decreased compared to FY 2026 by $22.029 million due to the transfer of the Air-to-Ground concept Development effort and associated funding 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 Force, Budget Activity (BA) 3.
FY2026 plans — current year - 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. - Continue technology risk reduction for hypersonic and high-speed weapon concepts development within a scalable, cloud-enabled modeling and simulation ecosystem in order to upgrade Department of War lethality tools with damage from hypersonic weapons. - Continue developing kinetic payloads, seeker, and fuze technology for hypersonic and high-speed…