# Project 0167 — 5in Rolling Airframe Missile

**Program element:** 0604756N — Ship Self Def (Engage: Hard Kill)  
**Project:** 0167  
**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/0604756N/0167  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604756N

## Summary

Project 0167 — 5in Rolling Airframe Missile requests $14.4M in FY2027, 4.9% of the $296.3M requested for program element 0604756N, down 5.3% on FY2026. 1 R-2A activity decomposes the request. RTX / Raytheon is the largest named R-3 performer at $11.0M, 76% of the project's FY2027 R-3 total.

## Funding profile

| 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 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0604756N; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## 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.

**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 |
|---|---|---|
| RTX / Raytheon | 11.0 | 76% |
| China Lake | 2.2 | 16% |
| Applied Phys Lab (APL) | 0.3 | 1.9% |
| Cydecor | 0.1 | 0.8% |

> 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rolling Airframe Missile Block 2 Development and Test | 18.4 | 15.2 | 14.4 | −5% | [a0](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604756N/0167/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.

### Rolling Airframe Missile Block 2 Development and Test

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…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604756N/0167/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/0604756N.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Navy RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0604756N project 0167 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0604756N")`.

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