# Project 1600 — High-Speed Long Range Maritime Strike Weapon

**Program element:** 0604659N — Precision Strike Weapons Development Program  
**Project:** 1600  
**Component:** U.S. Navy  
**Appropriation:** 1319 — RDT&E, Navy  
**Budget Activity:** 4 — Advanced Component Development & Prototypes  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604659N/1600  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604659N

## Summary

Project 1600 — High-Speed Long Range Maritime Strike Weapon requests $138.5M in FY2027, 67% of the $206.9M requested for program element 0604659N, up 36% on FY2026. 1 R-2A activity decomposes the request. NAWCAD is the largest named R-3 performer at $52.1M, 38% of the project's FY2027 R-3 total.

## Funding profile

| 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 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0604659N; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## 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.

**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 |
|---|---|---|
| NAWCAD | 52.1 | 38% |
| NSMA | 37.1 | 27% |
| NAWCWD | 23.7 | 17% |
| Boeing | 9.0 | 6.5% |

> 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MACE (Project Alpha) | 0.0 | 101.8 | 138.5 | +36% | [a0](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604659N/1600/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.

### MACE (Project Alpha)

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.

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604659N/1600/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/0604659N.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Navy RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0604659N project 1600 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0604659N")`.

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