# Program Operations

**R-2A activity** of project B1K — THAAD Development and Modernization  
**Program element:** 0605058A — Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) RDTE  
**Component:** U.S. Army · **Budget Activity:** 5  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605058A/B1K/a1  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605058A/B1K

> **NEW START.** $24.7M requested in FY2027 with no prior-year and no current-year funding.

## Summary

This activity requests $24.7M in FY2027, 2.7% of project B1K — a new start with no prior-year and no current-year money. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2027 planned work.** - Provide technical and business management support activities to provide critical program status and decision quality data. - Ensure compliance with internal and external direction, policies, and regulations to deliver critical capability within a consistent and disciplined process. - Conduct internal program reviews to measure program progress. - Continue a Mission Assurance and Manufacturing Engineering Program to include Quality, Configuration Management, Manufacturing, Engineering, and Safety in all phases of the system life cycle, throughout the supply chain, and at all levels of assembly emphasizing high yield rates which minimize test and rework costs. - Provide Quality Safety and Mission Assurance operations to ensure compliance with requirements for design, test, manufacturing, quality, safety and reliability to ensure high quality products are delivered to the Warfighter.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** The increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is the result of the transfer of efforts from the Missile Defense Agency to the Army.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2027 | Request | 24.7 |

> Prior, current and budget year only — an R-2A activity carries no five-year plan. It sums exactly into its project in the request year and not necessarily in any other.

## Other activities in project B1K

- [Capability Development/Modernization](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605058A/B1K/a0) — FY2027 848.6
- [THAAD Test](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605058A/B1K/a2) — FY2027 31.2
- Details are provided under separate cover — FY2027 17.3

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Army RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0605058A project B1K (PB PB2027). Narrative is the government's own text.
- **No marks, no contractors at this grain** — congressional marks land on the program element and R-3 performers on the project.
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_activity`.

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