# Project MD31 — Modeling & Simulation

**Program element:** 0603890C — BMD Enabling Programs  
**Project:** MD31  
**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/MD31  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603890C

## Summary

Project MD31 — Modeling & Simulation requests $140.2M in FY2027, 9.6% of the $1.46B requested for program element 0603890C, up 153% on FY2026. 3 R-2A activities decompose the request. Lockheed Martin is the largest named R-3 performer at $38.1M, 27% of the project's FY2027 R-3 total.

## Funding profile

| 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 |

> 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 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.

**R-3 lines of work:** Product Development; Support.

## Named R-3 performers

| Performer | $M | Share of this project's FY2027 R-3 total |
|---|---|---|
| Lockheed Martin | 38.1 | 27% |
| Northrop Grumman | 23.4 | 17% |
| DECIBEL RESEARCH | 17.2 | 12% |
| AMENTUM SERVICES | 3.7 | 2.6% |

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

## Activities (R-2A) — 3

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Missile Defense System M&S | 31.5 | 33.4 | 113.2 | +239% | [a2](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603890C/MD31/a2) |
| M&S Improvements | 18.7 | 12.6 | 15.6 | +23% | — |
| M&S Requirements, Design Support, Scenario Optimization | 10.7 | 9.3 | 11.4 | +23% | — |

> 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.

### Missile Defense System M&S

- 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…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603890C/MD31/a2

### M&S Improvements

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 provides M&S enhancements supporting Missile Defense System development and testing.

### M&S Requirements, Design Support, Scenario Optimization

**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.

## 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 MD31 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0603890C")`.

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