# Project 654807 — Nuclear Weapon System Technology and Integration

**Program element:** 0604222F — Nuclear Weapons Support  
**Project:** 654807  
**Component:** U.S. Air Force  
**Appropriation:** 3600 — RDT&E, Air Force  
**Budget Activity:** 5 — System Development & Demonstration  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604222F/654807  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604222F

## Summary

Project 654807 — Nuclear Weapon System Technology and Integration requests $77.3M in FY2027, 89% of the $86.9M requested for program element 0604222F, up 5.2% on FY2026. 4 R-2A activities decompose the request, 1 new this cycle. Booz Allen is the largest named R-3 performer at $34.9M, 45% of the project's FY2027 R-3 total.

**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 | 63.9 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 73.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 77.3 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 76.4 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 49.3 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 50.9 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 51.9 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0604222F; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## What project 654807 buys

The AFNWC is the executing agency for the Nuclear Weapon System Technology and Integration (NWST&I) program that ensures the safety, survivability, security, and effectiveness of AF nuclear weapon systems in direct support to the military operators and force providers. Emphasis is placed on ensuring nuclear weapon system compatibility, validating nuclear safety designs, generating weapon system safety rules, developing flight profiles for safe and effective nuclear weapons delivery, characterizing the inherent hardness/survivability of Department of Air Force conventional and nuclear weapon systems in adversarial threat environments, exposing vulnerabilities which could compromise the authorized use of nuclear weapons, and developing mitigations to any nuclear weapon system safety, security, or effectiveness shortfalls (to include future concept development). These requirements are met through in-depth technical, operational, and intelligence evaluations, demonstrations, modeling and simulation (M&S), test and evaluation (T&E), trade studies, requirements analysis, and recommendations to planning, policy, and doctrine. Additionally, the program conducts DoW-required certification for legacy, modernized, and new nuclear weapon systems. The Air Force Safety Center (AFSEC), provides guidance, direction, and oversight of all matters pertaining to emerging weapons technologies including nuclear surety of all nuclear weapons and weapon systems in Air Force custody and facilities, from storage and assembling, testing, transporting, and delivering it on target. AFSEC collaborates with DAF nuclear stakeholders to implement a nuclear weapons systems safety and surety program as part of the overall Air Force Nuclear Surety Program, as directed by DoDD 3150.02, DoW Nuclear Weapons Surety Program and DoDM 3150.02, DoW Nuclear Weapon System Safety Program Manual. Emphasis is placed on ensuring nuclear weapon system prevention of loss (safety), validating nuclear safety designs, coordinating interagency weapon system safety rules for OSW, exposing vulnerabilities which could compromise the authorized use of nuclear weapons, and developing compensatory measures to any nuclear weapon system safety, security, or operational non-compliance (to include future concept development and cybersecurity and zero-trust implications on surety).

**R-3 lines of work:** Product Development; Support; Test and Evaluation; Management Services.

## Named R-3 performers

| Performer | $M | Share of this project's FY2027 R-3 total |
|---|---|---|
| Booz Allen | 34.9 | 45% |
| National Labs | 5.0 | 6.5% |
| John Hopkins | 4.1 | 5.3% |
| Peerless | 3.0 | 3.9% |

> Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations. Shares need not reach 100% — unnamed and government work is in the denominator.

## Activities (R-2A) — 4

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nuclear Certification Management | 40.4 | 40.2 | 43.9 | +9% | [a2](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604222F/654807/a2) |
| Weapons Effects | 7.0 | 15.1 | 17.9 | +18% | [a0](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604222F/654807/a0) |
| Air Force Nuclear Red Team (AFNRT) | 16.4 | 18.1 | 13.5 | −26% | [a1](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604222F/654807/a1) |
| Advanced Concepts | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | new | — |

> 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 Certification Management

• Continue to develop capabilities to optimize nuclear certification activities within the digital environment including transitioning from a compliance-based to risk-informed certification process. This includes the use of advanced computational approaches (e.g., artificial intelligence), and automated toolsets/algorithms to assist…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604222F/654807/a2

### Weapons Effects

• Continue development, modernization, verification, and validation of M&S tools (to include integration with other DoW M&S tools). • Continue to develop rigorous methods and tools for testing and predictive response to nuclear effects as they relate to the expected operational environments. • Continue analysis to establish…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604222F/654807/a0

### Air Force Nuclear Red Team (AFNRT)

• Continue to improve assessments of strategic system capabilities/vulnerabilities related to air-delivered, ground-based nuclear weapon systems, and NC3. • Continue to evaluate and analyze to address current and future threats that include, but are not limited to, kinetic, electronic warfare, cyber, and supply chain exploitation…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604222F/654807/a1

### Advanced Concepts — NEW START

**FY2027 planned work.** New Major Thrust to provide assessments to address capability gaps with a focus on future emerging threats; results inform requirements, acquisitions, and technical demonstrations.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Funding begins FY27

## 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/0604222F.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0604222F project 654807 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0604222F")`.

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