# Project 3020 — MIDS/JTRS

**Program element:** 0604280N — JT Tactical RADIO System (JTRS)  
**Project:** 3020  
**Component:** U.S. Navy  
**Appropriation:** 1319 — RDT&E, Navy  
**Budget Activity:** 5 — System Development & Demonstration  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604280N/3020  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604280N

## Summary

Project 3020 — MIDS/JTRS requests $40.7M in FY2027, 9.9% of the $409.3M requested for program element 0604280N, down 15% on FY2026. 1 R-2A activity decomposes the request. NIWC PAC is the largest named R-3 performer at $22.5M, 55% of the project's FY2027 R-3 total.

## Funding profile

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 38.9 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 48.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 40.7 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 41.7 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 64.3 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 66.5 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 67.8 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0604280N; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## What project 3020 buys

The Multifunctional Information Distribution System (MIDS) is the most widely fielded family of Tactical Data Link radio terminals in the world. The MIDS program office is the Performing Activity for the Navy (Lead Service for Department of War (DOW)), Link 16 capability and consists of two (2) product lines, MIDS Low Volume Terminal (LVT) (legacy hardware defined radio) and MIDS Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) (software defined radio). MIDS-LVT effort is a cooperative development program between France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United States with United States joint service participation (Navy, Army, Air Force), and has provided over 12,000 terminals to more than 50 Nations providing interoperability with North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and coalition partners. The Department of War (DoW) established the program to design, develop, and deliver low volume, lightweight tactical information system terminals for U.S. and allied fighter aircraft, bombers, helicopters, ships, and ground sites. MIDS-LVT significantly increases force effectiveness and minimizes hostile actions and friend-on-friend engagements. MIDS-LVT Block Upgrade 2 was executed as an Engineering Change Proposal (ECP) and provides the critical upgrades to the MIDS-LVT Terminal to enable U.S., Coalition and International partners' ability to meet the National Security Agency (NSA) mandated timelines for Cryptographic Modernization (CM) and the National Telecommunications and Information Agency (NTIA) and Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) mandated timelines for Frequency Remapping (FR). MIDS JTRS, designed as a Pre-Planned Product Improvement (P3I) and executed as an ECP to the production MIDS-LVT configuration, and is fully compatible with MIDS-LVT. The MIDS JTRS Core Terminal achieved Full Production & Fielding (FP&F) in March 2012. It facilitated the JTRS incremental approach for fielding advanced JTRS transformational networking capability and transformed the MIDS-LVT into a 4-channel, SW Communications Architecture (SCA) compliant, Joint Tactical Radio. A form-fit-function replacement to MIDS-LVT, MIDS JTRS also adds three programmable 2 Megahertz (MHz) to 2 Gigahertz (GHz) channels capable of hosting the JTRS legacy and networking waveforms.

**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 |
|---|---|---|
| NIWC PAC | 22.5 | 55% |
| DLS | 8.3 | 20% |
| L3Harris | 5.8 | 14% |
| BAH | 0.5 | 1.2% |

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

## Activities (R-2A) — 1

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MIDS | 38.9 | 48.0 | 40.7 | −15% | [a0](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604280N/3020/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.

### MIDS

Continue EMCF testing on previous HW and SW configurations of MIDS JTRS terminals. Begin investigation of development of EMC testing automation tools in adherence with the EMCF manual. Conduct terminal qualification testing on newly developed software builds and hardware configurations. Ensure functional performance testing is thorough…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604280N/3020/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/0604280N.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Navy RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0604280N project 3020 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0604280N")`.

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