# Effector Product Improvement

**R-2A activity** of project DJ6 — Effector Product Improvement  
**Program element:** 0607865A — Patriot Product Improvement  
**Component:** U.S. Army · **Budget Activity:** 7  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0607865A/DJ6/a0  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0607865A/DJ6

## Summary

This activity requests $161.4M in FY2027, 100% of project DJ6, up 31% on FY2026. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2025–FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2027 planned work.** -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 integrated fires PAC-3 missile segment testing -Continue PATRIOT program M&S laboratory infrastructure maintenance as well as the conduct of M&S for hardware/software capability improvements -Continue U.S. Government and contractor support to ensure force effectiveness is maintained to keep pace with evolving and emerging threats -Continue system integration activities, test and analysis, and threat analysis and modeling -Continue development of PAC-3 Fire Control and LoE -Continue AMD Effectors Survivability efforts for enhanced electronic protection across lower tier effectors (interceptors, fire control and M903 launching stations) -Continue development of PAC-3 MSE and Fire Control Enhancements specific to GDS for use in developmental testing in the LTAMDS/IBCS configuration. -Continue support for Hardware in the Loop (HWIL): Millimeter-wave Simulation System - 1 (MSS-1), Millimeter-wave Simulation System - 2 (MSS-2), and PATRIOT Simulation (PATSIM)

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Funding increase is due to acceleration of AMD Effectors Survivability efforts and increased Hardware in the Loop activity

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** Activities continued below were funded through project DV8 prior to FY25 -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 integrated fires PAC-3 missile segment testing -Continue PATRIOT program M&S laboratory infrastructure maintenance as well as the conduct of M&S for hardware/software capability improvements -Continue U.S. Government and contractor support to ensure force effectiveness is maintained to keep pace with evolving and emerging threats -Continue system integration activities, test and analysis, and threat analysis and modeling -Continue development of PAC-3 Fire Control and LoE -Continue AMD Effectors Survivability efforts for enhanced electronic protection across lower tier effectors (interceptors, fire control and M903 launching stations) -Continue development of PAC-3 MSE and Fire Control Enhancements specific to GDS for use in developmental testing in the LTAMDS/IBCS configuration.

**FY2025 accomplishments.** Activities continued below were funded through project DV8 prior to FY25 -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 PAC-3 Fire Testing -Continue PATRIOT program M&S laboratory infrastructure maintenance as well as the conduct of M&S for hardware/software capability improvements -U.S. Government and contractor support to ensure force effectiveness is maintained to keep pace with evolving and emerging threats -Continue system integration activities, test and analysis, and threat analysis and modeling -Continue development of PAC-3 Fire Control and LoE

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 83.1 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 123.1 |
| FY2027 | Request | 161.4 |

> 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.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Army RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0607865A project DJ6 (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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