# Future Concepts and Planning

**R-2A activity** of project MD24 — System Engineering & Integration  
**Program element:** 0603890C — BMD Enabling Programs  
**Component:** Defense-Wide · **Budget Activity:** 4  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603890C/MD24/a4  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603890C/MD24

## Summary

This activity requests $20.3M in FY2027, 7.7% of project MD24, up 15% on FY2026. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2026–FY2027.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 provides additional architecture design work required to drive future missile defense efforts.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** - 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, and assessment of FA-4 COAs focused in updates to all parts of the kill chain supporting U.S. European Command and U.S. Indo-Pacific Command.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 18.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 17.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 20.3 |

> 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.

## Other activities in project MD24

- [Missile Defense System - Next: Engineering Support and M&S](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603890C/MD24/a8) — FY2027 76.0
- [Requirements and Design](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603890C/MD24/a0) — FY2027 70.7
- [Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD)](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603890C/MD24/a1) — FY2027 40.9
- System-Level Verification and Assessment — FY2027 39.1
- System Engineering, Engineering Analysis and Quick Response Team — FY2027 12.3
- Discrimination — FY2027 4.6
- Manufacturing and Producibility — FY2027 1.3
- Knowledge Centers — FY2027 0.0

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0603890C project MD24 (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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