RDT&E Project · President's Budget PB2027

Short Range Ballistic Missile Defense (SRBMD)(David's Sling Weapon System (DSWS))

Project MD34·PE 0603913C — Israeli Cooperative Programs·Defense-Wide·BA4
FY2027 Request
$127.0M
▲ 0.0% vs FY2026
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Project MD34 — Short Range Ballistic Missile Defense (SRBMD)(David's Sling Weapon System (DSWS)) requests $127.0M in FY2027, 42% of the $300.0M requested for program element 0603913C, up 0.0% on FY2026. 1 R-2A activity decomposes the request. Rafael Advanced Defense Systems LTD is the largest named R-3 performer at $127.0M, 100% of the project's FY2027 R-3 total.

MarketAir & Missile Defense

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FY2027 Request
$127.0M
▲ 0.0% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$127.0M
▲ 0.0% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$127.0M
Prior year
Project detail

What project MD34 buys

Israeli SRBMD, also known as the DSWS, is designed to counter short range rockets, air breathing threats, medium caliber rockets, and theater ballistic missiles, and is integrated into the Israeli Missile Defense Architecture. The DSWS includes the Stunner Interceptor (Electro-Optical variant), a Missile Firing Unit, a Multi-Mission Radar - Next Generation (MMR-NG), a Launch Site Controller, a Ground Data Link (GDL), and the Golden Almond Battle Management Center (GA BMC). The DSWS can be deployed in a variety of configurations to support the intended mission. The DSWS Block 3 capability expands the range and threat versatility of the system by adding the All Weather Stunner Interceptor, improving the MMR-NG, upgrades to GDL and increasing the capacity of the GA BMC. The U.S. and State of Israel entered into a Memorandum of Understanding on September 2016, in which "Such funding, should over a ten year period beginning in FY 2019 and ending in FY 2028, be provided at a level of $500 million per year." (U.S. contributions only). These funds will be distributed between the Israeli Programs in Research Development Test & Evaluation and Procurement Funds.

R-3 lines of work
  • Product Development
Funding trajectory

Project MD34 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.

2550751001250127.0FY25ACTUAL127.0FY26ENACTED127.0FY27REQUEST127.0FY28127.0FY29127.0FY30127.0FY31
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual127.0
FY2026Enacted127.0
FY2027Request127.0
FY2028Outyear127.0
FY2029Outyear127.0
FY2030Outyear127.0
FY2031Outyear127.0
Inside the project

1 accomplishment / planned program

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. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.

SRBMD Programflat
FY2025 actual$127.0M
FY2026 enacted$127.0M
FY2027 request$127.0M

FY2027 planned work - Conduct Block 3.2 System Requirements Review. - Initiate Block 4.0 concept definition. - Continue Initial Lot Production of All-weather Stunner. - Continue Full Rate Electro-Optical Stunner production.

FY2026 plans — current year - Continue Block 3.15 Development (Systems Requirements Review and Preliminary Design Review). - Initiate Initial Lot Production of All-weather Stunner. - Conduct Block 3.2 System Requirements Review.

Who's building it

Named performers on project MD34

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.

Rafael Advanced Defense Systems LTD
$127.0M · 100%