# Guidance Applications Program

**R-2A activity** of project 641020 — ICBM Guidance Applications  
**Program element:** 0603851F — Intercontinental Ballistic Missile - Dem/Val  
**Component:** U.S. Air Force · **Budget Activity:** 4  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603851F/641020/a0  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603851F/641020

## Summary

This activity requests $28.4M in FY2027, 100% of project 641020, up 12% on FY2026. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2026–FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2027 planned work.** •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 state-of-the-art performance and survive strategic radiation environments. •Begin GNC&PNT efforts to identify ways to determine what GPS denied environments are for future ICBMs and potential threats to current GPS along with developing external sources of information other than GPS to determine position

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Funding increased due to EFT 3 requirement ramp up of activity

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** •Begin Optical communications link payload prototype which can operate to provide information at the point of relevance in denied environment and provide low probability of detection and intercept (GNC&PNT) •Continue Revolutionary Radar research for prototyping and test navigation aids. •Continue radiation-hardened advanced microelectronics to ensure availability of electronics that can provide state-of-the-art performance and survive strategic radiation environments. •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. •Respond to evolving warfighter priorities and emerging requirements in support of developing ICBM weapon system capability.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 26.6 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 25.4 |
| FY2027 | Request | 28.4 |

> Prior, current and budget year only — an R-2A activity carries no five-year plan. It sums exactly into its project in the request year and not necessarily in any other.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0603851F project 641020 (PB PB2027). Narrative is the government's own text.
- **No marks, no contractors at this grain** — congressional marks land on the program element and R-3 performers on the project.
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_activity`.

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