# Project MD24 — System Engineering & Integration

**Program element:** 0603890C — BMD Enabling Programs  
**Project:** MD24  
**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/0603890C/MD24  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603890C

## Summary

Project MD24 — System Engineering & Integration requests $265.3M in FY2027, 18% of the $1.46B requested for program element 0603890C, up 55% on FY2026. 9 R-2A activities decompose the request, 1 new this cycle. GRAY ANALYTICS is the largest named R-3 performer at $10.4M, 3.9% of the project's FY2027 R-3 total.

## Funding profile

| 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 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0603890C; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## 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.

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

## Named R-3 performers

| Performer | $M | Share of this project's FY2027 R-3 total |
|---|---|---|
| GRAY ANALYTICS | 10.4 | 3.9% |
| Boeing | 8.4 | 3.1% |
| SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL | 8.3 | 3.1% |
| NTSI | 6.6 | 2.5% |

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

## Activities (R-2A) — 9

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Missile Defense System - Next: Engineering Support and M&S | 0.0 | 0.0 | 76.0 | new | [a8](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603890C/MD24/a8) |
| Requirements and Design | 53.0 | 56.0 | 70.7 | +26% | [a0](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603890C/MD24/a0) |
| Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) | 21.1 | 28.9 | 40.9 | +42% | [a1](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603890C/MD24/a1) |
| System-Level Verification and Assessment | 31.5 | 33.6 | 39.1 | +16% | — |
| Future Concepts and Planning | 18.0 | 17.7 | 20.3 | +15% | [a4](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603890C/MD24/a4) |
| System Engineering, Engineering Analysis and Quick Response Team | 11.0 | 10.4 | 12.3 | +19% | — |
| Discrimination | 16.3 | 14.2 | 4.6 | −68% | — |
| Manufacturing and Producibility | 3.7 | 1.7 | 1.3 | −25% | — |
| Knowledge Centers | 11.6 | 8.1 | 0.0 | −100% | — |

> 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.

### Missile Defense System - Next: Engineering Support and M&S — NEW START

- 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…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603890C/MD24/a8

### Requirements and Design

- 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…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603890C/MD24/a0

### Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD)

- 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…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603890C/MD24/a1

### System-Level Verification and Assessment

**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.

### Future Concepts and Planning

- 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…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603890C/MD24/a4

### System Engineering, Engineering Analysis and Quick Response Team

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 provides additional performance analysis for missile defense architecture options and Real World Events.

### Discrimination

**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.

### Manufacturing and Producibility

**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.

### Knowledge Centers

**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.

## 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/0603890C.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0603890C project MD24 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0603890C")`.

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