RDT&E Project · President's Budget PB2027

AEGIS Ashore

Project MD68·PE 0604880C — Land Based SM-3 (LBSM3)·Defense-Wide·BA4
FY2027 Request
$21.8M
▲ 2.9% vs FY2026
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Project MD68 — AEGIS Ashore requests $21.8M in FY2027, 87% of the $25.1M requested for program element 0604880C, up 2.9% on FY2026. 1 R-2A activity decomposes the request. Lockheed Martin is the largest named R-3 performer at $3.2M, 15% of the project's FY2027 R-3 total.

FY2027 Request
$21.8M
▲ 2.9% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$21.2M
▲ 13% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$18.7M
Prior year
Project detail

What project MD68 buys

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is responsible for maintaining the Aegis Ashore Missile Defense Test Complex (AAMDTC) at the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF). MDA uses AAMDTC in support of Ground Testing, Aegis Weapon System computer program development testing, fielding (with hardware upgrades), and proof of concept demonstrations. AAMDTC is capable of testing and developing both shore based and sea based Aegis capabilities. In support of European Phased Adaptive Approach Phase III, Aegis Ashore integrates the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) 5.1 and Standard Missile Block IIA capabilities into the Aegis Ashore sites. MDA will provide all upgrades to BMD capability, BMD specific mission equipment, and integration with existing Missile Defense System nodes for all Aegis Ashore sites.

R-3 lines of work
  • Product Development
  • Support
Funding trajectory

Project MD68 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.

25018.7FY25ACTUAL21.2FY26ENACTED21.8FY27REQUEST48.5FY2828.7FY2922.3FY3022.9FY31
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual18.7
FY2026Enacted21.2
FY2027Request21.8
FY2028Outyear48.5
FY2029Outyear28.7
FY2030Outyear22.3
FY2031Outyear22.9
Inside the project

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.

FY2025 actual$18.7M
FY2026 enacted$21.2M
FY2027 request$21.8M

- Upgrade AAMDTC hardware in the loop (HWIL) test bed for Aegis Guam Weapon System configuration through ground testing and Objective Quality Evidence (OQE) collection for certification and warfighter acceptance. After initial certification and transition, the HWIL suite will be used for flight testing, operational troubleshooting and…

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Who's building it

Named performers on project MD68

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.

Lockheed Martin
$3.2M · 15%