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RDT&E Program Element · President's Budget PB2027

Joint Munitions Component Prototyping

PE 0604023D8Z·Defense-Wide·Approp. 0400 — RDT&E·BA4 — Advanced Component Development & Prototypes
FY2027 Request
$7.9M
Defense-Wide · RDT&E
◆ New start in FY2027 — no prior-year funding
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Defense-Wide requests $7.9M in FY2027 against nothing enacted in FY2026, sustained across the five-year plan. In the FY2027 defense authorization, the House funded it in full; the Senate funded it in full; House appropriators funded it in full.

FY2027 Request
$7.9M
No FY2026 funding
FY2026 Enacted
$0.0M
No FY2025 funding
FY2025 Actual
$0.0M
Prior year

For fiscal year 2027, Defense-Wide agencies are requesting $7.9M for Joint Munitions Component Prototyping under RDT&E program element 0604023D8Z, against nothing enacted in FY2026.

Funding trajectory

Funding profile, 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.

255000.0FY25ACTUAL0.0FY26ENACTED7.9FY27REQUEST18.7FY2832.7FY2960.1FY3062.6FY31
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual0.0
FY2026Enacted0.0
FY2027Request7.9
FY2028Outyear18.7
FY2029Outyear32.7
FY2030Outyear60.1
FY2031Outyear62.6
Where it sits

Acquisition lifecycle

This program is funded in RDT&E Budget Activity 4 — Advanced Component Development & Prototypes.

Complete
Research
BA 1–2
Complete
Advanced Technology
BA 3
Current
Prototyping
BA 4
Later
Development & Fielding
BA 5–7
Inside the program element

1 project rolls up into PE 0604023D8Z

Projects are the summable leaves — the PE total is their sum, never added to it. Program elements and projects carry the full five-year plan; activities stop at the budget year.

Project 917

Joint Munitions Component Prototyping

$7.9MFY2027 request NEW
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$7.9M
Product Development

The Joint Munitions Component Prototyping project will demonstrate and prototype advanced munitions component technologies related to lethality, range, speed, survivability, application of artificial intelligence and machine learning in munitions, advanced communication and collective behaviors, and other next-generation munition attributes. Advancing game-changing technologies from Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 5-6 to TRL 6-7 reduces technology integration/transition risk to the Services and Program Offices by validating the tactical and operational applications and benefits of new component technology. As a new start in FY 2027, the project will focus on warhead and fusing technologies, including those employing advanced energetics, before expanding into other areas in later years. This project will continue technology developments funded under OSW and Service science and technology lines to facilitate more efficient and effective technology transition while delivering technology overmatch to the Joint Force in accordance with Department strategic guidance.

Accomplishments / planned programs (R-2A) — prior, current and budget year only
Joint Munitions Component PrototypingNEW
FY2025 actual—
FY2026 enacted—
FY2027 request$1.4M

FY2027 planned work • Development and fabrication of munition lethality components and sub-components. • Integration and demonstration of component prototypes for munitions.

FY2026 to FY2027 change Addition of $1.383 million to develop component prototyping plans and test articles.

Joint Live FireNEW
FY2025 actual—
FY2026 enacted—
FY2027 request$6.5M

FY2027 planned work In FY 2027, JLF will continue to improve lethality testing, data, and M&S capabilities to support JTCG/ME operational tools. Anticipated FY 2027 critical areas include: • Test point detonating and proximity fusing to conduct a comparative analysis on resulting fragmentation characterization • Establish Joint probability of component damage given hit (Pcd|h) repository and development processes • Execute non-kinetic (HEL, HPM, or Cyber) testing and M&S improvements • Develop testing databases to support validation of lethality M&S • Transition gains in TBI prediction into Health Hazard Assessments, Danger Close (Risk Estimates Distances) and Collateral Damage Estimation (CDE) tools • Develop…

FY2026 to FY2027 change FY 2027 start for JLF

Congressional action

Congressional marks

Committee marks on the FY2027 request. Adds and cuts are reconciled in conference before they become law.

RequestPresident's Budget
$7.9M
House NDAA (HASC)HASC
$7.9M full · +$0
Senate NDAA (SASC)SASC
$7.9M full · +$0
House Approps (HAC-D)HAC_D
$7.9M full · +$0
unresolved as of 2026-07-27. These are FY2027 authorization marks (NDAA); appropriations and the conference agreement may differ.
Who's building it

Where the FY2027 request goes

Performers named in the R-3 exhibit, resolved into industry, government-lab, and unspecified shares. Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations.

Where FY2027 funding flowsShare$M
Other / unspecified100%7.9
FY2027 request100%7.9
Program detail

Mission & acquisition strategy

This program supports the Department’s initiatives to Reestablish Deterrence, Prevail in Conflict, Defend the Homeland, and Build Sustainable and Long-Term Advantages. Joint Munitions Component Prototyping will enable advanced component technology demonstrations and munitions prototypes for promising, impactful, and disruptive technologies developed by the Department’s science and technology investments. Efforts will reduce technical, financial, integration, and schedule risk for Services and Program Offices through meaningful testing, initial qualification evaluations, and graduation of technologies from technology readiness levels 5-6 to 6-7.

Project 917 — Joint Munitions Component Prototyping
  • Product Development
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FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification · Exhibits R-2 / R-3 · PE 0604023D8Z (President's Budget PB2027) — and FY2027 NDAA committee marks, as tracked 2026-07-27.
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