# Project MD28 — Intelligence & Security

**Program element:** 0603890C — BMD Enabling Programs  
**Project:** MD28  
**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/MD28  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603890C

## Summary

Project MD28 — Intelligence & Security requests $66.8M in FY2027, 4.6% of the $1.46B requested for program element 0603890C, up 20% on FY2026. 2 R-2A activities decompose the request. SYSTEM HIGH is the largest named R-3 performer at $13.3M, 20% of the project's FY2027 R-3 total.

## Funding profile

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 59.4 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 55.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 66.8 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 69.9 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 71.5 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 72.4 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 73.0 |

> 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 MD28 buys

The Intelligence and Security Program provides multi-disciplinary intelligence, security, and engineering for Missile Defense System acquisition, development, test and deployment. The Intelligence and Security Major Program Goals are: - Ensure the Intelligence Community (IC) understands and fulfills the MDA's current and future prioritized intelligence requirements; advocate Missile Defense development and test intelligence requirements. - Leverage available National and Department of War (DoW) Counterintelligence resources. Ensure counterintelligence products and services are fully integrated into all Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation programs and activities to protect classified information and critical technologies and to protect MDA and Missile Defense System personnel, facilities, information and activities. - Provide cross-Agency acquisition security oversight and support for robust acquisition program protection, to include the identification and protection of Critical Program Information. Implement MDA's information security and declassification programs. Strengthen Test and Operations Security across the Agency. Manage Agency regulatory declassification and information security program. Provide physical security policy for Missile Defense System weapon/sensor deployments, including Foreign Military Sales. - Produce threat definitions and model packages, Adversary Data Packages, and Flight Test Target Requirements and Target System Performance Specifications; provide Real World Event analysis. These efforts provide critical information regarding threat missile system capabilities; protection of personnel, activities, and technology from espionage and terrorism; and identification and mitigation of Missile Defense System vulnerabilities.

**R-3 lines of work:** Support.

## Named R-3 performers

| Performer | $M | Share of this project's FY2027 R-3 total |
|---|---|---|
| SYSTEM HIGH | 13.3 | 20% |
| Mobius Consulting | 5.0 | 7.5% |
| JACOBS | 4.5 | 6.7% |
| SEG (Systems Engineering Group | 3.7 | 5.6% |

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

## Activities (R-2A) — 2

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intelligence & Security | 39.5 | 37.3 | 45.6 | +22% | [a0](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603890C/MD28/a0) |
| Threat Systems Engineering | 19.9 | 18.6 | 21.2 | +14% | — |

> 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.

### Intelligence & Security

- Define MDA intelligence requirements for IC support of future Missile Defense design, development, test, and deployment. - Update cybersecurity systems engineering policy and guidance for future Missile Defense design and acquisition.

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603890C/MD28/a0

### Threat Systems Engineering

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Increase from FY 2026 to FY2027 provides for additional threat analysis associated with future Missile Defense development activities to counter evolving adversary capabilities.

## 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 MD28 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0603890C")`.

*HitchAI is an independent intelligence service, not affiliated with the U.S. Department of Defense. Budget figures are requests/estimates, not obligations.*