# Project 641020 — ICBM Guidance Applications

**Program element:** 0603851F — Intercontinental Ballistic Missile - Dem/Val  
**Project:** 641020  
**Component:** U.S. Air Force  
**Appropriation:** 3600 — RDT&E, Air Force  
**Budget Activity:** 4 — Advanced Component Development & Prototypes  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603851F/641020  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603851F

## Summary

Project 641020 — ICBM Guidance Applications requests $28.4M in FY2027, 39% of the $72.1M requested for program element 0603851F, up 12% on FY2026. 1 R-2A activity decomposes the request. MDA is the largest named R-3 performer at $2.0M, 7.1% of the project's FY2027 R-3 total.

## Funding profile

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 26.6 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 25.4 |
| FY2027 | Request | 28.4 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 45.5 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 32.7 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 36.8 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 37.6 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0603851F; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## What project 641020 buys

The Guidance Applications Program (GAP) studies and assesses both legacy and future ICBM Guidance System technology applications. Efforts are focused on current and future requirements and technologies, reduced life-cycle costs, and increased nuclear safety and surety. Activities leverage the efforts of the science and technology community and are coordinated with the Navy strategic applications program to enhance synergy and avoid duplication. Key elements include developing responsive technologies with common applications for future strategic guidance capabilities. This program also includes any needed nuclear surety, certification, and system vulnerability assessments. This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver weapon system capability. The use of such program funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program element 0605827F, 0605828F, 0605829F, 0605831F, 0605832F, 0605833F, 0605898F, 0606398F. In FY 2025 0M was expended for civilian pay expenses in this program element, and in FY 2026 0M is forecasted for civilian pay expenses in this program element.

**R-3 lines of work:** Test and Evaluation.

## Named R-3 performers

| Performer | $M | Share of this project's FY2027 R-3 total |
|---|---|---|
| MDA | 2.0 | 7.1% |

> Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations. Shares need not reach 100% — unnamed and government work is in the denominator.

## Activities (R-2A) — 1

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guidance Applications Program | 26.6 | 25.4 | 28.4 | +12% | [a0](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603851F/641020/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.

### Guidance Applications Program

•Continue Experimental Flight Test (EFT3) efforts to provide ICBM launches for testing experimental guidance and mission-enabling technologies to support advancement of low-technology readiness level technology maturation. •Continue radiation-hardened advanced microelectronics to ensure availability of electronics that can provide…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603851F/641020/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/0603851F.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0603851F project 641020 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0603851F")`.

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