# Project 641022 — ICBM Reentry Vehicle Applications

**Program element:** 0603851F — Intercontinental Ballistic Missile - Dem/Val  
**Project:** 641022  
**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/641022  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603851F

## Summary

Project 641022 — ICBM Reentry Vehicle Applications requests $22.2M in FY2027, 31% of the $72.1M requested for program element 0603851F, down 69% on FY2026. 1 R-2A activity decomposes the request.

## Funding profile

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 71.9 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 72.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 22.2 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 52.6 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 58.8 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 58.4 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 59.6 |

> 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 641022 buys

The Reentry Vehicle Applications Program (RVAP) ensures the ICBM force is equipped with the safe, reliable, survivable reentry systems, and explores options for common, multi-mission capabilities. The program enables a responsive engineering infrastructure by developing modeling/simulation and ground/flight test platforms to support reentry system qualifications. The program ensures the availability of long-lead components and materials while identifying life-cycle cost reduction opportunities. In addition, the program matures and tests advanced reentry system technologies and designs to meet future capability requirements. This includes conducting any necessary studies and assessing technology applications relevant to Mk12A, Mk21, Mk21A, and future ICBM reentry systems by maturing technologies and demonstrating/validating concepts and leveraging investments by the science & technology community and Navy reentry systems applications program. Testing may occur on a space-available basis on Air Force and Navy Force Development Evaluation (FDE) flights. 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:** Support; Test and Evaluation; Management Services.

## Activities (R-2A) — 1

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reentry Vehicle Applications Program | 71.9 | 72.0 | 22.2 | −69% | [a0](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603851F/641022/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.

### Reentry Vehicle Applications Program

•Finalize Experimental Flight Test (EFT2), utilizing Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) launches as a platform to evaluate experimental payloads. This flight test aims to facilitate the maturation of key technologies by subjecting them to realistic flight conditions and gathering performance data in a representative environment…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603851F/641022/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 641022 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0603851F")`.

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