# Project MT08 — Midcourse Test

**Program element:** 0604887C — Ballistic Missile Defense Midcourse Defense Segment Test  
**Project:** MT08  
**Component:** Defense-Wide  
**Appropriation:** 0400 — RDT&E, Defense-Wide  
**Budget Activity:** 4 — Advanced Component Development & Prototypes  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604887C/MT08  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604887C

## Summary

Project MT08 — Midcourse Test requests $51.9M in FY2027, 96% of the $53.8M requested for program element 0604887C, up 41% on FY2026. 3 R-2A activities decompose the request. Boeing is the largest named R-3 performer at $20.6M, 40% of the project's FY2027 R-3 total.

## Funding profile

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 38.2 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 36.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 51.9 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 87.5 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 87.0 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 208.6 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 54.2 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0604887C; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## What project MT08 buys

Missile Defense Midcourse Defense Segment Test provides flight, ground, and cyber testing of hardware and software to demonstrate an integrated capability to counter the allocated threats. The hardware and software are tested in an integrated environment with Missile Defense System Sensors; Command and Control, Battle Management, and Communications; United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) Warfighters; and national collection assets to assess and demonstrate the ability to defend the United States Homeland. Primary activities include planning, design, and execution of flight tests, ground tests, cyber tests; test resources; and program operations. Flight tests provide the opportunity to test actual hardware and software and to demonstrate Missile Defense System interoperability under operationally realistic conditions. Ground-Based Midcourse Defense Program participates in integrated Missile Defense System ground tests executed in both the Hardware-in-the-Loop (HWIL) lab environment and with deployed operational assets providing integrated performance data supporting hardware and software fielding decisions. The Ground-Based Midcourse Defense Program conducts cyber tests and participates in integrated Missile Defense System level cyber tests executed both in the HWIL lab environment and using operational assets providing performance data supporting cyber, operational resilience, and system survivability assessments. Test resources provide the infrastructure and laboratories to support the Ground Missile Defense (GMD) test program as well as day-to-day operations of the GMD test program to include support for test planning, execution, and post-event reconstruction. Program operations provide for technical and business management support of the test program.

**R-3 lines of work:** Support; Test and Evaluation; Management Services.

## Named R-3 performers

| Performer | $M | Share of this project's FY2027 R-3 total |
|---|---|---|
| Boeing | 20.6 | 40% |
| RTX / Raytheon | 8.6 | 16% |
| MP SOLUTIONS | 4.9 | 9.4% |
| Northrop Grumman | 3.4 | 6.6% |

> Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations. Shares need not reach 100% — unnamed and government work is in the denominator.

## Activities (R-2A) — 3

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ground Test Execution | 11.4 | 7.1 | 26.4 | +273% | — |
| Resources | 16.5 | 19.7 | 14.4 | −27% | [a0](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604887C/MT08/a0) |
| Program Operations | 10.3 | 10.0 | 11.1 | +11% | — |

> 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.

### Ground Test Execution

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Increase from Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 to FY 2027 is in accordance with the Integrated Master Test Plan requirements. The Missile Defense System Test Program realigned the Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) Flight Test Budget from Program Element (PE) Ballistic Missile Defense Test 0603914C to PE Ballistic Missile Defense Midcourse Defense Segment Test 0604887C.

### Resources

- Continue laboratory test infrastructure planning to integrate and test the upgraded Ground-Based Midcourse Defense Program hardware and software in support of flight, ground, and cyber testing. - Continue testing infrastructure and coordination for flight test range support from VSFB for future flight testing. - Continue testing…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604887C/MT08/a0

### Program Operations

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Increase from Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 to FY 2027 is in accordance with the Integrated Master Test Plan requirements. The Missile Defense System Test Program realigned the Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) Flight Test Budget from Program Element (PE) Ballistic Missile Defense Test 0603914C to PE Ballistic Missile Defense Midcourse Defense Segment Test 0604887C.

## 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/0604887C.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0604887C project MT08 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0604887C")`.

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