What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project MM09 of PE 0603892C. This is the budget justification's own description of work that has not happened yet — the one thing no other level of the budget carries.
- 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 threats. - Commence SM-3 Block IB ASP assembly technology refresh located within the Guidance Unit (GU) and consists of an Image Processor (IP) circuit card assembly (CCA), heat plate, and Data Processor CCA. Modernization of the IP and DP CCAs increases processing power and enables other enhancements such as DROIC and SWUP. Technology Refresh also enables the use of modern algorithm development tools and processes. Allows for improved discrimination updates, increased raid performance, and adds capability against complex countermeasures with the addition of Machine learning techniques. - Commence SM-3 Block IB SWUP improvements which provide significant advanced capability and expanded threat space to combat existing and emerging threats with backfit capability at retrofit. Includes software updates such as raid enhancements and discrimination updates based on leveraging mature Blk IIA algorithms. This enhancement also includes test equipment and test lab upgrades necessary to support formal qualification, manufacturing, troubleshooting, obsolescence and reliability activities of the software design. This SWUP will be applicable on existing rounds in inventory (backfit) and new production rounds.
Increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 provides for SM-3 Block IB enhancements specifically DROIC, ASP Technology Refresh, and SWUP with Lab Sustainment.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
- Continuation of Guidance Section Software upgrades (GS SWUP). - Conduct and complete HERO/EMV testing of the SM-3 Block IB with higher-power Army/Navy Surface Radar Surveillance and Control radar operational environment.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 8.4 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 5.6 |
| FY2027 | Request | 117.9 |
This activity is 94% of project MM09's FY2027 request and 13% of PE 0603892C's. In the request year the activities under a project sum to it exactly; in the current year they under-cover it in about 9% of cases, so an activity's delta can legitimately exceed its parent's and the two must not be compared row to row.
2 activities in project MM09
Every R-2A line of this project, largest FY2027 request first. Linked where the activity has enough of its own narrative to carry a page; the rest are shown in full on the project page.