# Project MT23 — Enabling - Test

**Program element:** 0603890C — BMD Enabling Programs  
**Project:** MT23  
**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/MT23  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603890C

## Summary

Project MT23 — Enabling - Test requests $48.8M in FY2027, 3.3% of the $1.46B requested for program element 0603890C, up 20% on FY2026. 1 R-2A activity decomposes the request. NTSI is the largest named R-3 performer at $6.4M, 13% of the project's FY2027 R-3 total.

## Funding profile

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 46.7 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 40.8 |
| FY2027 | Request | 48.8 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 49.8 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 50.8 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 51.0 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 51.0 |

> 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 MT23 buys

The Enabling Test project includes Missile Defense System test planning, execution, and post-test analysis and assessment, and the Modeling & Simulation (M&S) tools and framework required to prepare for and execute ground and flight tests. This includes test design, target requirement definition, and collaboration with the Service Operational Test Agencies (OTA) to incorporate operational test requirements into Missile Defense System events. This ensures Missile Defense System tests collect essential System data and confirm proper System operation. It also provides data to anchor system and element models and simulations for use in simulations to characterize System performance across the battle space, including areas where no live-fire-testing is performed. Resources for the planning, design, execution and management of this testing are provided in accordance with the most current version of the Integrated Master Test Plan (IMTP).

**R-3 lines of work:** Support; Test and Evaluation.

## Named R-3 performers

| Performer | $M | Share of this project's FY2027 R-3 total |
|---|---|---|
| NTSI | 6.4 | 13% |
| Boeing | 6.3 | 13% |
| JACOBS | 1.4 | 2.8% |
| AMENTUM SERVICES | 1.1 | 2.2% |

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

## Activities (R-2A) — 1

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Engineering and Analysis | 46.7 | 40.8 | 48.8 | +20% | — |

> 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.

### Engineering and Analysis

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is aligned with the approved MDA IMTP.

## 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 MT23 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0603890C")`.

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