# Test Infrastructure

**R-2A activity** of project MT04 — BMDS Test Program  
**Program element:** 0603914C — Ballistic Missile Defense Test  
**Component:** Defense-Wide · **Budget Activity:** 4  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603914C/MT04/a3  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603914C/MT04

## Summary

This activity requests $331.4M in FY2027, 32% of project MT04, up 62% on FY2026. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2026–FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2027 planned work.** - Tech Refresh, Improvement, and Modernization to meet mission requirements and sustain operations.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** - Increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is driven by requirements in the current Integrated Master Test Plan (IMTP) to fund essential technology refreshes and system upgrades for flight test ranges and infrastructure, mobile instrumentation, test communications, and data management labs. In addition, planned overhauls of test instrumentation ships, Pacific Collector and Pacific Tracker, and associated telemetry and radar systems.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** - Outfit and equip the new Ground Test Facility.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 120.4 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 204.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 331.4 |

> Prior, current and budget year only — an R-2A activity carries no five-year plan. It sums exactly into its project in the request year and not necessarily in any other.

## Other activities in project MT04

- Missile Defense System - Next: PT Upgrade/Recap, PC Recap — FY2027 329.0
- [Flight Test](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603914C/MT04/a1) — FY2027 170.1
- [Program Planning and Operations](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603914C/MT04/a0) — FY2027 91.3
- Ground Test — FY2027 74.3
- Engineering and Test Analysis — FY2027 27.4

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0603914C project MT04 (PB PB2027). Narrative is the government's own text.
- **No marks, no contractors at this grain** — congressional marks land on the program element and R-3 performers on the project.
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_activity`.

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