What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project MT05 of PE 0603915C. 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.
- Conduct final target integration with the test range to accomplish launch operations of one SRBM T4 target with countermeasures and one SRBM T4-G in support of an Aegis BMD using BL 10.0.1 (BMD 6.0.1) SW demonstrating multiple simultaneous engagements in a multi-level IAMD scenario, firing one Standard Missile (SM)-3 Block IB and two SM-6 guided missiles. - Conduct final target integration with the test range to accomplish launch operations of two MRBM T4 targets and one MRBM T4-E in support of an Aegis BMD using BL 10.0.1 (BMD 6.0.1) SW demonstrating Multiple Simultaneous Engagements in an IAMD raid scenario firing two SM-3 Block IB and one SM-3 Block IIA guided missiles. - Conduct final target integration with the test range and Forward Staging Area (FSA) to accomplish launch operations of a MRBM advanced target in support of Aegis SBT using BL 9.2.4 (BMD 5.1.5) SW demonstrating a salvo engagement firing two SM-6 Block IA Upgraded guided missiles against a Hypersonic Glide Vehicle. - Conduct final target integration with the test range and FSA to accomplish launch operations of an MRBM target in support of THAAD Battery 8 using TH 5.x SW demonstrating concurrent control of one Talon Obsolescence Redesigned Interceptor. - Conduct final target integration with the test range and FSA to accomplish launch operations of one SRBM T4 target with countermeasures in support of THAAD using TH 5.x SW and Army/Navy Transportable Radar Surveillance (TM) CX6.0 to detect, track, and discriminate the target and countermeasures to support development of electronic protection.
Increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 reflects the new high frequency test strategy documented in the current Integrated Master Test Plan.
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.
- Conduct final target integration with the test range and Forward Staging Area to accomplish launch operations of a MRBM target with countermeasures in support of Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) using Baseline (BL) 10.x Software (SW) conducting a data collect and a simulated engagement of a MRBM target with countermeasures. - Conduct final target integration with the test range to accomplish launch operations of a SRBM target with countermeasures in support a Developmental Test (DT) for Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) and the Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) Battle Command System. - Conduct final target integration with the test range and Forward Staging Area to accomplish launch operations of an IRBM target in support of Aegis BMD using BL 10.0.1 (BMD 6.0.1) SW demonstrating an engagement firing an Standard Missile (SM)-3 Blk IIA guided missile against an IRBM. - Conduct final target integration with the test range and Forward Staging Area to accomplish launch operations of a MRBM advanced target in support of Aegis Sea-Based Terminal (SBT) using BL 9.2.x SW demonstrating a salvo engagement firing two SM-6 Blk IA Upgrade guided missiles against a Hypersonic Glide Vehicle.
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 | 14.4 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 33.6 |
| FY2027 | Request | 43.3 |
This activity is 8.8% of project MT05's FY2027 request and 8.4% of PE 0603915C'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.
7 activities in project MT05
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.