# Project 090 — Nuclear Test

**Program element:** 0603941D8Z — Test and Evaluation Science and Technology  
**Project:** 090  
**Component:** Defense-Wide  
**Appropriation:** 0400 — RDT&E, Defense-Wide  
**Budget Activity:** 3 — Advanced Technology Development  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603941D8Z/090  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603941D8Z

## Summary

Project 090 — Nuclear Test requests $11.1M in FY2027, 0.3% of the $3.83B requested for program element 0603941D8Z, down 0.1% on FY2026. 1 R-2A activity decomposes the request.

**Markets:** Nuclear Modernization — matched on the project title only, and no market size is quoted.

## Funding profile

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 4.5 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 11.1 |
| FY2027 | Request | 11.1 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 11.1 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 11.3 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 11.5 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 11.7 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0603941D8Z; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## What project 090 buys

The Nuclear Test (NT) project mission addresses national test capability gaps by providing accurate, robust, and efficient T&E solutions to successfully develop, validate, and inform the employment of a modernized nuclear enterprise. The Department is prioritizing investments to modernize the nuclear enterprise while sustaining and increasing the resiliency of legacy systems. Current developments focus on deploying capabilities and systems to validate new designs and new materials in a complex threat-representative environment. Current testing infrastructure and methodologies to assess nuclear enterprise systems and microelectronics resilience against emerging threats is limited. Many test capabilities used in the past for acquisition are no longer available, either stopped by policy decisions or dismantled for cost savings. The NT project addresses test technology needs for adequate assessment of nuclear enterprise resiliency and aligns with the Department’s S&T priority investments. The NT project is supporting the development of a strategic roadmap and investment strategy to establish nuclear test environments for microelectronics, ground test environments for system level testing, and flight test range enhancements for end-to-end testing needs. The NT project develops technologies to enable robust, accurate, and timely T&E of a modernized nuclear enterprise, and to ensure system suitability and survivability.

## Activities (R-2A) — 1

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nuclear Test (NT) | 4.5 | 11.1 | 11.1 | −0% | [a0](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603941D8Z/090/a0) |

> 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.

### Nuclear Test (NT)

In FY 2027, NT will continue to mature test technologies supporting the Department’s strategic goals of enabling radiation hardening and nuclear-survivable warfighting capabilities and accelerating strategic systems modernization. Highlights include: - Address SEE testing throughput needs - Continued development of new capability for…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603941D8Z/090/a0

## 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/0603941D8Z.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0603941D8Z project 090 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0603941D8Z")`.

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