What project 1600 buys
Multi-mission Affordable Capacity Effector (MACE) will provide launch platforms extended standoff capability, maximize weapon load-out, and control unit costs to rapidly scale production quantities and achieve necessary inventory levels. To control costs, maximize affordability, and extend capability relevance, MACE will leverage government directed interface standards and best commercial practices to enable the insertion of upgraded components or design changes to address obsolescence, producibility requirements, and enable rapid affordable future upgrades to pace the threat and meet key operational problems. In response to MACE requirements, the NAVAIR Rapid Capability Cell (NRCC) is utilizing Rapid Capability Office (RCO) authorities to accelerate the integration, test, and certification of the Hypersonic Weapon solution via Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) competition for a low-cost air-launched hypersonic missile onto F/A-18E/F carrier-based aircraft. NRCC will broaden the competitive munitions industrial base to increase munitions production capacity, deliver relevant capability to the fleet ahead of adversary reaction times, demonstrate integration flexibility with rapidly iterating missile design through an Early Operational Capability (EOC) and provide the program structure necessary to enable transition into a Program of Record (POR) in accordance with acquisition transformation strategy. POR will continue testing thru Initial Operational Capability (IOC), a Full Rate Production (FRP) Decision, and continued Pre-Planned Product Improvement (P3I) to enable rapid affordable future upgrades to pace the threat and meet key operational problems. FY 2026 request for High-Speed Long Range Maritime Strike Weapon (Proj: 1600) includes $101.790 million of discretionary funding and $89.333 million of reconciliation funding for a total of $191.123 million. FY 2026 to funding supports the acceleration of the Blackbeard Hypersonic Weapon fleet & carrier integration / certification onto the F/A-18 E/F through KP2 (Live Fire Shot in Combat Environment) and achievement of Early Operation Capability (EOC) in Q4 FY 2027. Funds also support acceleration of Reactive Material Warhead and Advanced Lethality Enhancements for payload integration & test.
- Product Development
- Support
- Test and Evaluation
- Management Services
Project 1600 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 101.8 |
| FY2027 | Request | 138.5 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 123.5 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 89.5 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 84.1 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 85.7 |
1 accomplishment / planned program
The R-2A exhibit — the only level of the budget that describes work that has not happened yet. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only, no five-year plan. Each describes FY2027 work in enough detail to have its own page; the rest are shown here in full. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
FY 2027 will continue the government integration, test, evaluation and certification from Knowledge Point (KP)1 (1st air-launched test shot) in Q4 FY 2026 thru KP2 (Live Fire Shot in Combat Environment) in Q4 FY 2027. Integration efforts for the Reactive Material Warhead and Advanced Lethality Enhancement will commence.
Read the FY2027 plan →Named performers on project 1600
Performers named in the R-3 exhibit under this project. Share is of the project's whole FY2027 R-3 total — the same denominator the program-element split uses, so the two read on one scale and will not sum to 100% when unnamed or government work is in the mix. Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations.