What project 3312 buys
This project funds two interdependent efforts: developing the next generation of interoperability capabilities to support burden sharing with high-end warfighting nations (including Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, United Kingdom and the United States) and testing warfighter proficiency against high-end targets that emulate complex threats. This project assesses the participating nations' ability to share the burden of NATO Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD), currently filled by US forces in Europe. Engineering analysis and data analytics from sponsored test events are provided to European and Pacific Combatant Commands in direct support of theater Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) priorities. The MTMD Forum addresses challenges associated with integrating maritime Allied Air Defense in Support of Ballistic Missile Defense Operations into joint IAMD command and control. MTMD Forum nations leverage At-Sea Demonstration (ASD) test events, coupled with operational Fleet Exercises (Formidable Shield and Pacific Dragon), to integrate technology and validate national capabilities in operational constructs, supportive of operational force employment. The MTMD Forum encourages national development of systems and practices that enhance protection and defense against the proliferation of short, medium and long-range Ballistic Missile (BM) and Advanced Anti-Ship Cruise Missile (ASCM) threats through the development of interoperable sea-based Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) capability in the near term and also pushes partners to develop future interoperability technologies. The program leverages the full spectrum of capability development, from theoretical work with allied partners to examine future interoperability opportunities to testing in service interoperability in the integrated air and missile defense domain. One of the future technologies that the Forum is leading is the Force Level Open Architecture Technical Standard (FLOATS), a potential replacement or augmentation to traditional Link 16 architectures. The program has already developed four of eight planned data models and is pursuing capability demonstration through the modeling and simulation resources funded through the Forum.
Project 3312 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.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 14.8 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 25.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 23.1 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 24.6 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 25.1 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 25.3 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 25.8 |
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.
FY2027 planned work Acquire, integrate, and launch (1) SRBM targets during the Formidable Shield 2027 (FS27) exercise to support allied interoperability assessments, terminal defense engagements, and at-sea experimentation
FY2026 to FY2027 change Decrease reflects the development of one target instead of two.
FY2026 plans — current year Acquire, integrate, and launch (1) MRBM and (1) SRBM targets during the Pacific Dragon 2026 (PD26) exercise to warfighter readiness, at-sea experimentation, and allied interoperability assessments.
In FY27, the BMC4I team will continue its mission to enhance Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) interoperability and capabilities within coalition maritime forces. The team will focus on defining Target Architecture 4 (TA4). Efforts will include identifying and addressing interoperability and capability gaps through data analysis…
Read the FY2027 plan →