# Weapons Effects

**R-2A activity** of project 654807 — Nuclear Weapon System Technology and Integration  
**Program element:** 0604222F — Nuclear Weapons Support  
**Component:** U.S. Air Force · **Budget Activity:** 5  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604222F/654807/a0  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604222F/654807

## Summary

This activity requests $17.9M in FY2027, 23% of project 654807, up 18% 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.** • 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 survivability/hardness requirements for current and future delivery aircraft, support aircraft, weapon systems (to include facilities and support equipment), ICBMs, and NC3 assets. • Continue to expand development of methods and tools used to assure weapon effectiveness in operationally relevant environments. • Continue to support AFGSC EMP Survivability Program execution per DAFI 10-2601 to include developing testing strategies, test plans, instrumentation plans, identification of possible mitigation strategies, coordination of test execution, and assessing resource requirements, shortfalls and prioritization • Continue to provide hardness/survivability analysis and subject matter expertise supporting CNI planning, strategies, exercises, and wargaming.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Funding increase is due to expanded testing requirements and activities.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** • Development, modernization, verification, and validation of M&S tools (to include integration with other DoW M&S tools). • Develop rigorous methods and tools for testing and predictive response to nuclear effects as they relate to the expected operational environments. • Analysis to establish hardness requirements for current and future delivery aircraft, support aircraft, weapon systems (to include facilities and support equipment), ICBMs, and NC3 assets. • Expand development of methods and tools used to assure weapon effectiveness in operationally relevant environments. • Support AFGSC EMP Survivability Program execution per DAFI 10-2601 to include developing testing strategies and assessing resource requirements, shortfalls and prioritization • Provide hardness/survivability analysis and subject matter expertise supporting Conventional-Nuclear Integration (CNI) planning, strategies, and wargaming.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 7.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 15.1 |
| FY2027 | Request | 17.9 |

> 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 654807

- [Nuclear Certification Management](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604222F/654807/a2) — FY2027 43.9
- [Air Force Nuclear Red Team (AFNRT)](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604222F/654807/a1) — FY2027 13.5
- Advanced Concepts — FY2027 2.0

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0604222F project 654807 (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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