# Intelligence & Security

**R-2A activity** of project MD28 — Intelligence & Security  
**Program element:** 0603890C — BMD Enabling Programs  
**Component:** Defense-Wide · **Budget Activity:** 4  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603890C/MD28/a0  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603890C/MD28

## Summary

This activity requests $45.6M in FY2027, 68% of project MD28, up 22% on FY2026. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2027 planned work.** - 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.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 provides for definition of MDA intelligence requirements for Intelligence Community support of future missile defense design, development, test, and deployment. Increase also provides additional cybersecurity systems engineering policy and guidance for future missile defense design and acquisition in support of the President's Executive Order 14186.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 39.5 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 37.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 45.6 |

> 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 MD28

- Threat Systems Engineering — FY2027 21.2

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0603890C project MD28 (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`.

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