# Project MM09 — Aegis BMD SM-3 Development

**Program element:** 0603892C — AEGIS BMD  
**Project:** MM09  
**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/0603892C/MM09  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603892C

## Summary

Project MM09 — Aegis BMD SM-3 Development requests $126.1M in FY2027, 14% of the $927.9M requested for program element 0603892C, up 366% on FY2026. 2 R-2A activities decompose the request. RTX / Raytheon is the largest named R-3 performer at $126.1M, 100% of the project's FY2027 R-3 total.

## Funding profile

| 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 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0603892C; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## 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.

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

## Named R-3 performers

| Performer | $M | Share of this project's FY2027 R-3 total |
|---|---|---|
| RTX / Raytheon | 126.1 | 100% |

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

## Activities (R-2A) — 2

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IB Development | 8.4 | 5.6 | 117.9 | +1988% | [a0](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603892C/MM09/a0) |
| Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IIA Development | 13.9 | 21.4 | 8.2 | −62% | — |

> 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.

### Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IB Development

- 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…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603892C/MM09/a0

### Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IIA Development

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Decrease from FY 2026 to FY 2027 reflects completion of GEU-ECP.

## 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/0603892C.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0603892C project MM09 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0603892C")`.

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