What project MD24 buys
System Engineering & Integration (SE&I) defines, designs, tests and integrates the Missile Defense System, and provides analysis, decision support and planning activities for real-world operations to the National Command Authority, Joint Staff, Military Services, Combatant Commanders, Operational Test Agencies, Director of Operational Test and Evaluation, Allies, and others. SE&I Major Program Goals: - Plan, design, develop, integrate, and test a layered Missile Defense System that provides the required performance and global reach. - Provide System-level engineering to Missile Defense System Elements, and lead collaborative cross-Element, cross-Component engineering. - Employ digital tools to refine and automate engineering processes and technical products required for Missile Defense System development - Maintain the Capability Gap Tracker (CGT) to systematically track and prioritize the capability gaps in the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Program of Record (POR), with respect to forecasted threat. - Plan, design, develop future architecture plans into integrated engineering requirements. - Analyze architecture alternatives and new technologies, and develop requirements to respond to the proliferation of short, medium, and long-range advanced missile threats. - As technical authority for Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD), provide a consistent, disciplined systems engineering process using a multi-Service team to integrate Joint IAMD systems. - Provide System-level forums to track, assess, and improve hardware and software reliability. - Assess Missile Defense System capabilities and limitations. - Develop performance assessment requirements and evaluate new capabilities in support of fielding decisions. - Identify critical conditions and data required to develop test campaigns to demonstrate Missile Defense System performance. - Identify System issues occurring in ground and flight tests and lead the effort to resolve. - Ensure the Missile Defense System is complementary to and interoperable with North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and other theater systems. - Develop and field integrated Element capabilities to improve the capability to identify lethal reentry vehicles and non-lethal threat objects.
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Project MD24 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 | 166.2 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 170.6 |
| FY2027 | Request | 265.3 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 269.0 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 288.7 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 261.8 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 270.8 |
9 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. 4 of them describe FY2027 work in enough detail to have their own page; the rest are shown here in full. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
- Conduct specialized architecture studies and deliver architecture concepts to provide global reach against advanced and emerging threats. - Conduct system-of-systems engineering employing modernized model-based systems engineering techniques to: -- Provide signatures and other threat data to support System-level requirements definition…
Read the FY2027 plan →- Plan and execute Digital Transformation; automate the architecture development lifecycle and systems engineering process leveraging digital tools, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML). - Model engineering processes using model based systems engineering (MBSE); begin integration into the Government…
Read the FY2027 plan →- Finalize, configure control, and deliver the JTMC Bridge Standard v3.0 updates. - Initial JTMC Bridge fielding (into Service PoRs) to include Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS), CEC/CTN, TOC-L and ABADS-MD. - Integrate JTIFC and the Joint Service LVC environment into the Guam Defense System (GDS) Joint Program Office (JPO) Defense…
Read the FY2027 plan →FY2026 to FY2027 change Increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 provides test analysis tool and assessment process enhancements to support the rapid pace of missile defense performance assessments.
- Finalize and submit FA-2 COAs and costs / schedules projections supporting focused area regions within U.S. Indo-Pacific Command. - Refine FY 2025 design, development and assessment of FA-3 COAs concentrated in weapons, sensors and communication to support detect and control portion of the kill chain. - Initiate design, development…
Open this activity →FY2026 to FY2027 change Increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 provides additional performance analysis for missile defense architecture options and Real World Events.
FY2026 to FY2027 change Decrease from FY 2026 to FY 2027 reflects a realignment of resources to better address future missile defense program responsibilities and requirements.
FY2026 to FY2027 change Decrease from FY 2026 to FY 2027 reflects the reduction of MDA contract services to implement and execute the President's Executive Order 14222 to synergize efforts and gain efficiencies. The reduction of funding for contract services is undertaken in direct support of the President's executive order, which prioritizes cost efficiency, transparency, and the consolidation of services. This measure represents a deliberate workforce optimization strategy designed to streamline resources while safeguarding against adverse impacts to modernization initiatives and overall mission effectiveness.
FY2027 planned work No funding requested for this activity.
FY2026 to FY2027 change Decrease from FY 2026 to FY 2027 reflects the reduction of MDA contract services to implement and execute the President's Executive Order 14222 to synergize efforts and gain efficiencies. The reduction of funding for contract services is undertaken in direct support of the President's executive order, which prioritizes cost efficiency, transparency, and the consolidation of services. This measure represents a deliberate workforce optimization strategy designed to streamline resources while safeguarding against adverse impacts to modernization initiatives and overall mission effectiveness.
Named performers on project MD24
Performers named in the R-3 exhibit under this project. Share is of the project's whole FY2027 R-3 total — the same denominator the program-element split uses, so the two read on one scale and will not sum to 100% when unnamed or government work is in the mix. Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations.