# Project MD11 — BMDS Radars

**Program element:** 0603884C — Ballistic Missile Defense Sensors  
**Project:** MD11  
**Component:** Defense-Wide  
**Appropriation:** 0400 — RDT&E, Defense-Wide  
**Budget Activity:** 4 — Advanced Component Development & Prototypes  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603884C/MD11  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603884C

## Summary

Project MD11 — BMDS Radars requests $808.7M in FY2027, 93% of the $865.4M requested for program element 0603884C, up 472% on FY2026. 6 R-2A activities decompose the request, 2 new this cycle. RTX / Raytheon is the largest named R-3 performer at $156.6M, 19% of the project's FY2027 R-3 total.

## Funding profile

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 200.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 141.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 808.7 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 848.4 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 672.7 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 491.0 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 670.9 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0603884C; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## What project MD11 buys

The Missile Defense System Radars project includes developing future Forward-based Mode Army Navy/Transportable Radar Surveillance and Control-2 (AN/TPY-2), United States Space Force (USSF) COBRA DANE, Long Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR), Sea Based X-Band Radar (SBX), Persistent Discrimination Radar in southern United State (U.S.), and USSF Upgraded Early Warning Radar (UEWR) System capabilities through system engineering, software development, and testing support. Modeling and Simulation (M&S) efforts include enhanced sensor models, development of Radio Frequency scene generators, integration of simulations into the Missile Defense System M&S architecture, and Verification, Validation, and Certification of radar models. This project also funds participation and support for Missile Defense System ground and flight test campaigns and Warfighter games and exercises. This project provides the development of discrimination advanced algorithms for Missile Defense System radars to counter evolving threats. The discrimination improvement effort will develop and field integrated element capabilities to improve the Missile Defense System's ability to identify lethal and non-lethal objects. This project will continue the development of discrimination improvement midterm design and test support for Missile Defense System radars and far-term trade analysis and planning. The funds requested in this PE provide both legacy and Global Missile Defense Capability development for the United States, its deployed forces, allies, and partners. The capabilities funded by this budget request are complementary to the architecture funded by the Golden Dome Program's separate budget request and together fulfill the President's Executive Order 14186. The President's January 27, 2025, Executive Order established a goal of protecting the U.S. citizens, safeguarding critical infrastructure, and securing second-strike capability against missile attack from any adversary. This program and budget in addition to the budget requested by the Golden Dome Program Office reflects the changes necessary to protect the U.S. against ballistic, hypersonic, cruise, and other advanced missile threats.

**R-3 lines of work:** Product Development; Support; Management Services.

## Named R-3 performers

| Performer | $M | Share of this project's FY2027 R-3 total |
|---|---|---|
| RTX / Raytheon | 156.6 | 19% |
| 039664375 - TAMERAN GRAPHIC SYSTEMS | 91.6 | 11% |
| JACOBS | 16.4 | 2.0% |
| Lockheed Martin | 6.1 | 0.8% |

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

## Activities (R-2A) — 6

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capability Development Program | 63.3 | 38.6 | 439.9 | +1039% | [a2](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603884C/MD11/a2) |
| BMDS Radars Modeling & Simulation (M&S) | 50.9 | 27.8 | 159.3 | +473% | [a1](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603884C/MD11/a1) |
| Sensors Directorate Operations | 56.3 | 49.4 | 93.7 | +90% | — |
| Missile Defense System - Next: Electromagnetic Protection (EP) | 0.0 | 0.0 | 76.4 | new | — |
| Basic Development Program | 29.5 | 25.7 | 28.5 | +11% | — |
| Missile Defense System - Next: Upgraded UEWR Algorithms | 0.0 | 0.0 | 11.0 | new | — |

> 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.

### Capability Development Program

- Continue development, integration, and test of Arbitrary Waveform and advanced signal processing capability for the AN/TPY-2 CX 7.0 baseline. - Initiate a rapid prototyping project for a minimum of two approaches to examine, develop, and implement innovative technologies for search, track, and discrimination of threats and electronic…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603884C/MD11/a2

### BMDS Radars Modeling & Simulation (M&S)

- Initiate development of high-fidelity Digital Wrapped Tactical Code models for AN/TPY-2 and SBX to support Missile Defense System element development and Warfighter Exercises and Training. - Procure updated hardware for high fidelity Hardware in the Loop models to meet increased performance required for advanced capabilities in SBX and…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603884C/MD11/a1

### Sensors Directorate Operations

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 provides additional midcourse radar engineering services and information technology (IT) services, including IT software, end user support services, and cloud computing to ensure continued program operations. Additionally, PE 0603881C funding transferred to PE 0603884C as a result of THAAD weapons system transfer to the U. S. Army.

### Missile Defense System - Next: Electromagnetic Protection (EP) — NEW START

**FY2027 planned work.** - Initiate hardware and software upgrades for forward-based mode AN/TPY-2 radar electronic protection and discrimination capability improvements.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 provides for the initiation of hardware and software upgrades for forward-based mode AN/TPY-2 radar EP and discrimination capability improvements that provide a foundation for future Missile Defense System architecture improvements.

**FY2026 plans — current year.** - No funding is requested in FY 2026.

### Basic Development Program

**FY2027 planned work.** - Complete development, testing, and software trouble report resolution CX 7.0 software.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** - Increase provides funding to complete development, testing, and software trouble report resolution.

**FY2026 plans — current year.** - Continue development, testing, and software trouble report resolution CX 7.0 software.

### Missile Defense System - Next: Upgraded UEWR Algorithms — NEW START

**FY2027 planned work.** - Award AOC development contract and initiate development of new threat object classification algorithms. - Begin software integration activities with Space Systems Command to enable seamless transition of AOC software updates into the UEWR Mission Application Software.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** - Increase from FY2026 to FY2027 provides for award of development contract and initial software integration activities.

**FY2026 plans — current year.** - No funding is requested in FY 2026.

## 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/0603884C.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0603884C project MD11 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0603884C")`.

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