# Project MT03 — Joint Warfighter Support Test

**Program element:** 0603898C — Ballistic Missile Defense Joint Warfighter Support  
**Project:** MT03  
**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/0603898C/MT03  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603898C

## Summary

Project MT03 — Joint Warfighter Support Test requests $25.4M in FY2027, 50% of the $50.4M requested for program element 0603898C, up 6.6% on FY2026. 2 R-2A activities decompose the request. MP SOLUTIONS is the largest named R-3 performer at $10.7M, 42% of the project's FY2027 R-3 total.

## Funding profile

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 25.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 23.8 |
| FY2027 | Request | 25.4 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 26.0 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 26.6 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 26.8 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 26.8 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0603898C; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## What project MT03 buys

Joint Warfighter Support Test provides support to Missile Defense System Wargames and Exercises. Wargames and Exercises: - Support the Warfighter to plan and conduct worldwide Wargames and Exercises supporting Missile Defense System development and fielding. - Enable the Warfighter to define, test, deploy, and employ new missile defense capabilities. - Support Joint Functional Component Commander (JFCC) for Integrated Missile Defense (IMD) Missile Defense System Table Top Exercises (TTX) to facilitate the global missile defense capability and to refine the European capability concept of operations through low-fidelity demonstration Models & Simulation (M&S). - Continue test planning for Wargames and Exercises.

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

## Named R-3 performers

| Performer | $M | Share of this project's FY2027 R-3 total |
|---|---|---|
| MP SOLUTIONS | 10.7 | 42% |
| JACOBS | 5.4 | 21% |
| Marzen | 4.6 | 18% |
| Northrop Grumman | 0.5 | 2.0% |

> 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wargames and Exercises | 20.7 | 20.2 | 22.1 | +9% | — |
| Program, Planning and Operations | 4.3 | 3.6 | 3.3 | −9% | — |

> 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.

## 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/0603898C.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0603898C project MT03 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0603898C")`.

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