What project 0167 buys
The Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) program is an international cooperative program with the government of the Federal Republic of Germany. The purpose of this program is to develop, test, and field a surface-to-air self-defense system consisting of both a missile and launcher. The latest fielded variant, the RAM Block 2B, defends against highly maneuverable Anti-Ship Missile (ASM) threats and emerging complex raid attacks utilizing an advanced seeker and missile-to-missile link while retaining all the proven capabilities of previous RAM variants (Block 0/1/1A/2/2A); accurate terminal guidance, proven lethality, and post-launch fire and forget capability. FY 2027 through FY 2031 efforts are as follows: Complete integration of the latest RAM Guided Missile Weapon System (GMWS) into the Ship Self-Defense System (SSDS) Baseline (BL) 12 and Aegis Combat System. This will enable the fleet to deploy the full capability of the RAM Block 2B missile which entered production in FY 2023. Continue the RAM "Performance Lab" which identifies improvements for incorporation through real-world events, trade studies, modelling and simulation, experiments, and test firings. Continue the RAM Software Factory to provide end users with rapid missile software updates to address emerging threats. Develop the Ship to Missile Uplink/Downlink (Stowed Kill Improvement Project (SKIP)). SKIP will utilize missile uplinks to provide the missile with continuous data from the combat system to improve mid-course and increase the probability of kill against complex raids. SKIP downlink will provide data back to the combat system to improve kill assessment fidelity. These system performance and efficiency improvements will be leveraged to decrease the required missiles per threat therefore increasing stowed kills per launcher.
- Product Development
- Support
- Test and Evaluation
- Management Services
Project 0167 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 | 18.4 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 15.2 |
| FY2027 | Request | 14.4 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 4.3 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 4.4 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 4.3 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 4.3 |
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.
Continue RAM GMWS integration efforts to support (1) RAM BLK 1A, 2, 2A and 2B into AEGIS BL9.C3.x to support RAM deployment on DDGs, (2) SSDS BL 12 Integration, Development Test (DT) and Operational Test (OT) events on Ship Self Defense Test Ship (SDTS) and Combat System Ship Qualification Test (CSSQT) and (3) SKIP model development…
Read the FY2027 plan →Named performers on project 0167
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.