What project MM09 buys
Provides development of SM-3 Missiles, Upgrade Modifications, and Integration into the Aegis Weapon System. The SM-3 Block IB improves Aegis Based Defense ability to expand the BMD battlespace, engage longer range, more sophisticated ballistic missiles that may deploy countermeasures and launch in larger raid sizes. The SM-3 Block IB Kinetic Warhead's two color infrared seeker and advanced signal processor provides a real-time discrimination and characterization capability while improving sensitivity for longer range targets. SM-3 Block IB provides capability in the exo-atmospheric region at a reduced cost, allowing SM-3 Block IIA All-Up Rounds to attack the more complex missile threats. The SM-3 Block IB missile is a vital piece of the layered Missile defense that Aegis Based Defense provides our nation. The SM-3 Block IIA consists of an upgrade to a 21-inch diameter SM-3 missile and expands beyond the SM-3 Block IB battlespace to counter Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile. SM-3 Block IIA provides an increased kinematic envelope through improved infrared discrimination and divert capability that provide performance against the European Phased Approach phase III expanded threat set. When combined with Aegis BMD 5.1 weapon system modifications, the SM-3 Block IIA will provide Engage on Remote (EoR) capability, which allows the use of remote off board sensor information to launch and guide the SM-3 Block IIA to final intercept. Aegis BMD 5.1 EoR capability with SM-3 Block IIA also frees up radar resources and increases the number and type of threats to be engaged simultaneously over previous baselines.
- Product Development
Project MM09 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 | 22.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 27.1 |
| FY2027 | Request | 126.1 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 195.8 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 188.9 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 197.5 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 158.6 |
2 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.
- Commence SM-3 Block IB missile with the integration of a new DROIC into the seeker's Integrated Dewar Assembly (IDA) that increases performance, increases acquisition range, speeds discrimination, and allows for adding new threats with complex countermeasures in the defense of the homeland and increased capability against existing…
Read the FY2027 plan →FY2026 to FY2027 change Decrease from FY 2026 to FY 2027 reflects completion of GEU-ECP.
Named performers on project MM09
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.