# Project 3312 — MTMD-Maritime Theater Missile Defense Forum

**Program element:** 0605853N — Management, Technical & Intl Supt  
**Project:** 3312  
**Component:** U.S. Navy  
**Appropriation:** 1319 — RDT&E, Navy  
**Budget Activity:** 6 — RDT&E Management Support  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605853N/3312  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605853N

## Summary

Project 3312 — MTMD-Maritime Theater Missile Defense Forum requests $23.1M in FY2027, 18% of the $124.9M requested for program element 0605853N, down 8.9% on FY2026. 2 R-2A activities decompose the request.

**Markets:** Air & Missile Defense — matched on the project title only, and no market size is quoted.

## Funding profile

| 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 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0605853N; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## 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.

## Activities (R-2A) — 2

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Navy Warfighter Support - Targets | 3.4 | 14.6 | 12.7 | −13% | — |
| MTMD-Martime Theater Missile Defense Forum | 11.3 | 10.7 | 10.4 | −3% | [a0](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605853N/3312/a0) |

> 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.

### Navy Warfighter Support - Targets

**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.

### MTMD-Martime Theater Missile Defense Forum

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…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605853N/3312/a0

## 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/0605853N.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Navy RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0605853N project 3312 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0605853N")`.

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