# Project 657013 — P3I Modernization

**Program element:** 0604932F — Long Range Standoff Weapon  
**Project:** 657013  
**Component:** U.S. Air Force  
**Appropriation:** 3600 — RDT&E, Air Force  
**Budget Activity:** 5 — System Development & Demonstration  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604932F/657013  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604932F

## Summary

Project 657013 — P3I Modernization requests $20.1M in FY2027, 3.6% of the $565.7M requested for program element 0604932F — a new start, with no prior-year and no current-year money. 1 R-2A activity decomposes the request, 1 new this cycle.

## Funding profile

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 20.1 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 20.1 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 20.1 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 20.1 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 20.1 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0604932F; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## What project 657013 buys

Pre-Planned Product Improvement (P3I) Modernization is necessary for LRSO to stay in front of emerging adversary technologies, strategic investments are needed to provide an affordable path to maintain the integrity of the nuclear triad's air delivered component against an advanced mid-to-far term adversary threat LRSO's Modular Open System Architecture (MOSA) lends itself to a P3I approach; leverage on-going technology maturation efforts to mitigate adversary investments in the Integrated Air Defense (IAD) technologies and additional territorial gains posed to threaten LRSO's effectiveness beyond the reference used to validate 30-year service life FY 2027 funding will be utilized for exploration of technology maturity and investing in the most promising efforts. This program element included all necessary expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver weapon system capability. The use of such program funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program elements 0605829F, 0605831F, 0605833F, and 0605898F.

**R-3 lines of work:** Product Development; Management Services.

## Activities (R-2A) — 1

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P3I Modernization | — | 0.0 | 20.1 | new | — |

> 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.

### P3I Modernization — NEW START

**FY2027 planned work.** FY2027 new start. Efforts will allow the exploration and study of technology maturity and investing in the most promising efforts. The key focus areas of study include but are not limited to, Standoff Capability, Operational Range, Cyber Efforts and Classified efforts.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Increase due to being an FY27 New start

**FY2026 plans — current year.** No FY2026 funding

## 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/0604932F.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0604932F project 657013 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0604932F")`.

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