# Project DV8 — Patriot Product Improvement

**Program element:** 0607865A — Patriot Product Improvement  
**Project:** DV8  
**Component:** U.S. Army  
**Appropriation:** 2040 — RDT&E, Army  
**Budget Activity:** 7 — Operational System Development  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0607865A/DV8  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0607865A

## Summary

Project DV8 — Patriot Product Improvement requests $57.6M in FY2027, 26% of the $219.0M requested for program element 0607865A, up 1.3% on FY2026. 1 R-2A activity decomposes the request. RTX / Raytheon is the largest named R-3 performer at $4.4M, 7.6% of the project's FY2027 R-3 total.

## Funding profile

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 79.2 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 56.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 57.6 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 58.2 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 56.9 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 58.5 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 59.1 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0607865A; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## What project DV8 buys

The PATRIOT system includes a family of hardware, software, interceptors (PAC-2, Guidance Enhanced Missiles, PAC-3 and PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement) and Ground Support Equipment. PATRIOT system components (interceptors, launcher, and radar) are integrated with current force PATRIOT and Army Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) components, including IBCS. As PATRIOT system 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. The FY 2027 funding in the amount of $57.640 Million supports the following: -PATRIOT system components software and hardware improvements for threat evolution: Performs necessary analysis and development efforts to maintain PATRIOT system (interceptors, ground support equipment, and current radar) effectiveness against evolving threat technologies and capabilities, support convergence with the IBCS, and complete PATRIOT Component Software Builds (PCSB). This effort identifies evolving threats and threat characteristics that present a challenge to PATRIOT's current capabilities and develops initial concepts to maintain system effectiveness including detection, tracking, discrimination, and engagement relative to these threats. Additionally, evolving threat information is used to develop, integrate, and assess evolving lethality models in high-fidelity interceptor simulations supporting system level assessment of hit-to-kill and warhead interceptor performance. -Advanced Electronic Counter Measures (AECM): This task investigates the implications of advanced technology Digital Radio Frequency Memory available on airborne platforms that enables new ECM techniques which could adversely degrade Air and Missile Defense System effectiveness. AECM efforts support PATRIOT system interceptors, ground support equipment, and current radar.

**R-3 lines of work:** Management Services; Product Development; Test and Evaluation.

## Named R-3 performers

| Performer | $M | Share of this project's FY2027 R-3 total |
|---|---|---|
| RTX / Raytheon | 4.4 | 7.6% |
| RSA, AL | 2.4 | 4.2% |
| RDEC and OGA'S | 1.8 | 3.2% |
| RSA | 0.9 | 1.6% |

> Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations. Shares need not reach 100% — unnamed and government work is in the denominator.

## Activities (R-2A) — 1

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PATRIOT Product Improvement | 79.2 | 56.9 | 57.6 | +1% | [a0](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0607865A/DV8/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.

### PATRIOT Product Improvement

-Continue Software Improvement for Threat Evolution and AECM to address emerging threats and convergence with IBCS -Continue Combat ID enhancements to reduce fratricide potential -Continue Tasks 2, 6, and 7 activities to develop hardware and software to maintain PATRIOT system effectiveness in the field -Continue program development…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0607865A/DV8/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/0607865A.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Army RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0607865A project DV8 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0607865A")`.

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