What project MD31 buys
The Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) M&S program consists of system and product planning, development, integration, and operation; threat model development, verification, and analysis; and integration and deployment of improved M&S capabilities. M&S efforts are tailored to the specific needs of the Agency's test events and to match Missile Defense System components in their various stages of development, ranging from low-to-medium fidelity analyses supporting concept definitions studies, to high-fidelity models used to support engineering level activities. MDA validates and accredits System-level models and simulations by anchoring them to ground and flight test events, per the Integrated Master Test Plan (IMTP), to enable accurate and comprehensive assessments. MDA's M&S systems and products provide analysis, decision-making, and planning capabilities for Real-World Operations to inform the National Command Authority, Joint Staff, Military Services, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Combatant Commanders, Operational Test Authority (OTAs), Director of Operational Test & Evaluation (DOT&E), and Allies. MDA's M&S Program executes a single, integrated, and synchronized program to manage System-level M&S development and sustainment; improve System Flight and Ground Test execution, provide a Cloud-based digital assessment venue; leverage MDA test activities to collect data to anchor models and simulations; and support Warfighter training and tactics validation. The M&S program also addresses the following key elements of DOT&E assessments: Ensure that future M&S architectures are composable and flexible, and simplify the integration process to conserve resources and improve capabilities; Ensure that future M&S architectures incorporate and require the use of consistent truth representations (phenomenology, lethality, environmental factors, threat simulations, etc.); Improve cross-organizational system engineering processes to optimize requirements generation and ensure the inclusion of all stakeholders; Develop refined M&S accreditation criteria between MDA and the OTA; Enable top-down systems engineering and management of agency-wide M&S federations. The funds requested in this PE provide both legacy and Global Missile Defense Capability development for the United States, its deployed forces, allies, and partners.
- Product Development
- Support
Project MD31 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 60.9 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 55.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 140.2 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 142.2 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 155.9 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 161.8 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 165.6 |
3 accomplishments / planned programs
The R-2A exhibit — the only level of the budget that describes work that has not happened yet. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only, no five-year plan. 1 of them describes FY2027 work in enough detail to have its own page; the rest are shown here in full. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
- Define and begin implementation of governance required to develop, employ and sustain the cloud-based Digital M&S capability. - Establish initial digital framework and simulation environment capability as a baseline for performance assessment. - Begin refactoring legacy Frameworks, Core Truth Models and element M&S representations into…
Read the FY2027 plan →FY2026 to FY2027 change Increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 provides M&S enhancements supporting Missile Defense System development and testing.
FY2026 to FY2027 change Increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 provides for planning, development, integration, and deployment of additional M&S framework, models, and tools in support of future Missile Defense development and integration.
Named performers on project MD31
Performers named in the R-3 exhibit under this project. Share is of the project's whole FY2027 R-3 total — the same denominator the program-element split uses, so the two read on one scale and will not sum to 100% when unnamed or government work is in the mix. Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations.