What project DJ6 buys
The Effector Product Improvement (DJ6) upgrades lower tier effectors (interceptors, fire control and M903 launching stations) to address operational lessons learned, enhancements to joint force interoperability and communications, and other system performance improvements to provide overmatch capability against the emerging threat. DJ6 PIP activities support enduring components of the system as legacy PATRIOT Ground Equipment is sunset with fielding of Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS). As components, software, and hardware improvements are developed, there is a continuing need for system level modeling, simulation, integration and testing. Modeling and Simulation (M&S) allow for performance assessment against specific threats in a manner that is not practical to demonstrate with live fire flight tests alone due to cost, target availability, and range constraints. Flight testing is periodically required for M&S validation as well as satisfying ATEC/DOTE requirements of segment improvements. FY 2027 funding will support test and development of improvements to currently fielded PATRIOT Family of Missiles (PFoM) and M903 launching stations to keep pace with current and emerging threats, support Guam Defense Systems specific efforts, and support Integrated Fires Control development and testing for the Army's Integrated Air and Missile Defense. -U.S. Government Program Management of DJ6 PIP efforts supporting system interceptors, launching stations, and associated materiel. -The AMD Effector Survivability effort enhances PAC-3 Missile segment effectiveness in a highly contested battlespace. Threat evolution and challenges include increased maneuverability, adversary quantities, electronic attack (EA) and use of hypersonics which continue to expand and complicate the ability to maintain defensive overmatch. The funding will deliver incremental software builds throughout the PAC-3 Missile segment, decreasing overall susceptibility and erosion of US capability to overmatch theater-level threats -PAC-3 Software Development Against Threat supports improved missile capability to counter current and emerging electronic attack threats. -Integrated PAC-3 Fire Control Development provides funding to support PAC-3 Fire Control and Link on ELES (LoE) development for integration with IBCS to enable Army Integrated Air and Missile Defense Modernization.
- Management Services
- Product Development
- Test and Evaluation
Project DJ6 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 | 83.1 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 123.1 |
| FY2027 | Request | 161.4 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 165.2 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 165.5 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 237.8 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 240.2 |
1 accomplishment / planned program
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. Each 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.
-Continue program development through system level modeling, simulation, integration and test support to address emerging threats -Continue test program to include utilization of targets/threat simulators, flight simulator and modeling efforts to maintain effectiveness -Continue supporting Integrated Fires and current force PATRIOT…
Read the FY2027 plan →Named performers on project DJ6
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.