RDT&E Project · President's Budget PB2027

Command & Control, Battle Management, Communications (C2BMC)

FY2027 Request
$687.0M
▲ 94% vs FY2026
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Project MD01 — Command & Control, Battle Management, Communications (C2BMC) requests $687.0M in FY2027, 73% of the $940.0M requested for program element 0603896C, up 94% on FY2026. 4 R-2A activities decompose the request, 1 new this cycle. Lockheed Martin is the largest named R-3 performer at $277.1M, 40% of the project's FY2027 R-3 total.

FY2027 Request
$687.0M
▲ 94% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$353.6M
▲ 6.2% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$333.0M
Prior year
Project detail

What project MD01 buys

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. The capabilities funded by this budget request are complementary to the architecture funded by the Golden Dome Program's separate budget request and together fulfill the President's Executive Order 14186. The President's January 27, 2025, Executive Order established a goal of protecting the U.S. citizens, safeguarding critical infrastructure, and securing second-strike capability against missile attack from any adversary. This program and budget in addition to the budget requested by the Golden Dome Program Office reflects the changes necessary to protect the U.S. against ballistic, hypersonic, cruise, and other advanced missile threats. C2BMC provides incremental development, deployment, and operational support of C2BMC capabilities required for Missile Defense System planning, situational awareness, sensor management, and engagement coordination. As the integrating element of the Missile Defense System, the C2BMC Program of Record is foundational to all future development and supports annual capability deliveries to support Missile Defense System-Next. C2BMC delivers capabilities incrementally with each software build (named as a Spiral or Capability Build), adding to or enhancing the capability of the previous build. C2BMC incremental delivery of Spiral 8.2 provides critical Homeland Defense for increased Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) battlespace, improved threat tracking using multiple sensors communicating via Link-16, enhanced sensor tasking to meet track quality and discrimination timeliness requirements, Space Domain Awareness (SDA) tasking support, and improved cyber capabilities. Enhanced Homeland Defense also integrates the Ballistic Missile Defense System Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) Architecture (BOA) with the Missile Defense System to enhance system level missile-tracking capabilities through earlier cueing of radars and weapon systems.

R-3 lines of work
  • Product Development
  • Support
  • Management Services
Funding trajectory

Project MD01 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.

2505007501,0000333.0FY25ACTUAL353.6FY26ENACTED687.0FY27REQUEST1,086.8FY28973.4FY29989.6FY30920.7FY31
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual333.0
FY2026Enacted353.6
FY2027Request687.0
FY2028Outyear1,086.8
FY2029Outyear973.4
FY2030Outyear989.6
FY2031Outyear920.7
Inside the project

4 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. 3 of them describe FY2027 work in enough detail to have their own page; the rest are shown here in full. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.

FY2025 actual$271.1M
FY2026 enacted$289.2M
FY2027 request$547.8M

- Continue integration and analysis with PWSA, MEO Track Custody, Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) Wide Field of View (WFOV) into experimental laboratories in support of risk reduction towards integration into the BOA software. - Deliver BOA software to operationalize updated raid performance to improve system throughput in mass raids…

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FY2025 actual$37.5M
FY2026 enacted$41.8M
FY2027 request$65.1M

- Installation of the resilient network communications infrastructure for the Guam Defense System Early Operational Capability, including secure fiber optic and Defense Red Switch Network connectivity to Missile Defense System sites. - Develop and purchase Knowledge Wall equipment for integration into the Guam Command Center. - Develop…

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FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$47.0M

- Advance the Integration of evolutionary JTMC-Bridge development for Missile Defense System-Next capability architectures. - Continue JTIFC acceleration efforts for Combat Identification (ID) / distributed JMAC (JTMC-B v2.0), Engagement Coordination ABMAs (JTMC Bridge v3.0) and EP (JTMC Bridge v4.0.) - Develop and approve JTMC Bridge…

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C2BMC Communications▲ 20%
FY2025 actual$24.5M
FY2026 enacted$22.6M
FY2027 request$27.1M

FY2027 planned work - Procure Generation II modems to support current operational Missile Defense Assets.

FY2026 to FY2027 change Increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 provides for the procurement of PAAWNS Gen II modems to support operational Missile Defense assets such as TPY-2, Upgraded Early Warning Radars, LRDR, GMD Fire Control, and C2BMC.

Who's building it

Named performers on project MD01

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.

Lockheed Martin
$277.1M · 40%
Northrop Grumman
$30.1M · 4.4%
JACOBS
$27.7M · 4.0%
Mobius Consulting
$4.5M · 0.7%