RDT&E Project · President's Budget PB2027

IFPC Increment 2 - Block 1

FY2027 Request
$35.1M
▼ 70% vs FY2026
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Project EY7 — IFPC Increment 2 - Block 1 requests $35.1M in FY2027, 20% of the $175.4M requested for program element 0605052A, down 70% on FY2026. 2 R-2A activities decompose the request. Developmental and Operational Tests is the largest named R-3 performer at $7.5M, 21% of the project's FY2027 R-3 total.

MarketAir & Missile Defense

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FY2027 Request
$35.1M
▼ 70% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$118.1M
▲ 9.9% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$107.5M
Prior year
Project detail

What project EY7 buys

This funding line is directly aligned to the Army Air and Missile Defense Modernization Priority. The Indirect Fire Protection Capability Increment 2 (IFPC Inc 2) - Block 1 will provide a ground-based weapon system designed to acquire, track, engage, and defeat Cruise Missiles (CM), and Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) threats. The IFPC Inc 2 system consists of a launcher and interceptor integrated with the Army Integrated Air and Missile Defense (AIAMD) open systems architecture, IAMD Battle Command System (IBCS), and the Sentinel sensor to support the Threshold CM and UAS defeat mission. In FY 2025, IFPC Inc 2 successfully transitioned from a Middle Tier of Acquisition (MTA) Rapid Prototyping (RP) effort to MTA Rapid Fielding (RF). The total cost estimate of the IFPC Inc 2 MTA RF effort is $1,394.6 million, including RDT&E ($219.3 million) and procurement ($1,175.3 million). The remainder of the IFPC Inc 2 MTA RF effort is fully funded. FY 2027 funds will continue support of product improvement following Initial Operational Test & Evaluation (IOT&E), and completion of delta developmental test (DT).

R-3 lines of work
  • Management Services
  • Product Development
  • Support
  • Test and Evaluation
Funding trajectory

Project EY7 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.

2550751000107.5FY25ACTUAL118.1FY26ENACTED35.1FY27REQUEST28.7FY2818.9FY2918.1FY3017.8FY31
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual107.5
FY2026Enacted118.1
FY2027Request35.1
FY2028Outyear28.7
FY2029Outyear18.9
FY2030Outyear18.1
FY2031Outyear17.8
Inside the project

2 accomplishments / planned programs

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. 1 of them 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$107.2M
FY2026 enacted$117.8M
FY2027 request$35.1M

- Complete delta qualification testing and delta developmental testing - Support the Integrated Fires Test Campaign to test and evaluate IFPC Inc 2 operation within the Army's Integrated Air and Missile Defense architecture - Conduct product improvements following IOT&E which includes continuing software development, system…

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IFPC Directed Energy Integration and Test▼ 100%
FY2025 actual$0.3M
FY2026 enacted$0.3M
FY2027 request

FY2026 to FY2027 change Decrease from FY 2026 to FY 2027 due to the IFPC HEL and IFPC HPM programs which were previously RCCTO programs now fall under PAE Fires and fall within PM ACE.

FY2026 plans — current year - Continue to provide an IFPC Directed Energy (DE) team to facilitate the Army Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office (RCCTO) with the transition of the Directed Energy capabilities to programs of record, as well as determine IFPC Inc 2 Product Office requirements for IFPC HEL and IFPC HPM

FY2025 accomplishments - Continue to provide an IFPC Directed Energy team to facilitate the Army Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office (RCCTO) with the transition of the Directed Energy capabilities to programs of record, as well as determine IFPC Inc 2 Product Office requirements for IFPC HEL and IFPC HPM

Who's building it

Named performers on project EY7

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.

Developmental and Operational Tests
$7.5M · 21%
Launcher and AUR-M Development
$3.9M · 11%