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

**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/a8  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603890C/MD24

> **NEW START.** $76.0M requested in FY2027 with no prior-year and no current-year funding.

## Summary

This activity requests $76.0M in FY2027, 29% of project MD24 — a new start with no prior-year and no current-year money. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2026–FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2027 planned work.** - 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 for new advanced threats. -- Define technical, performance, and interface requirements to develop and integrate new architectural components with the existing Missile Defense System. -- Develop assessments and analysis to predict expected performance and evaluate performance observed in testing and Real World Events. - Develop and integrate layered, multi-domain Homeland and Theater-based simulation framework architectures to support early performance predictions supporting acquisition decisions; enable virtual and live testing; and support engineering, production, and sustainment efforts across the components' lifecycle.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 provides architecture, engineering, and M&S services required to develop, test, assess, and deliver to the Warfighter advanced missile defense capabilities with global reach.

## Before the request year

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

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 76.0 |

> 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

- [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
- [Future Concepts and Planning](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603890C/MD24/a4) — FY2027 20.3
- 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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