# Project 64A025 — Space Security and Defense Program

**Program element:** 1206730SF — Space Security and Defense Program  
**Project:** 64A025  
**Component:** U.S. Space Force  
**Appropriation:** 3620F — RDT&E, Space Force  
**Budget Activity:** 4 — Advanced Component Development & Prototypes  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/1206730SF/64A025  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/1206730SF

## Summary

Project 64A025 — Space Security and Defense Program requests $100.1M in FY2027, 98% of the $102.1M requested for program element 1206730SF, up 122% on FY2026. 1 R-2A activity decomposes the request.

## Funding profile

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 53.2 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 45.2 |
| FY2027 | Request | 100.1 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 79.6 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 80.7 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 81.3 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 82.3 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 1206730SF; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## What project 64A025 buys

The Space Security and Defense Program (SSDP) is a Joint Title-10/title 50 organization serving as the primary space survivability technical advisor to the DEPSECDEF and PDDNI. SSDP's focus and analysis is on USSF core and enterprise service operational functions (Space Control, Space Domain Awareness) with Title-10/Title 50 equities within the Space Protection Program (Project 64A025). This Program Element (PE) 1206730SF, Space Security and Defense Program (SSDP) funds activities executed by the Joint Department of War (DoW) and Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) organization Space Security and Defense Program. The Program and organization were established to function as the center of excellence for options and strategies (materiel, non-materiel, cross-Title, cross-domain) leading to a more resilient National Security Space (NSS) Enterprise. The organization and its activities operate under the authority of the Deputy Secretary of War (DEPSECWAR) and Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence (PDDNI). SSDP's unique position with both the DoW and ODNI, authorities from both the DEPSECWAR and PDDNI, and broad NSS-scoped mission-set provides a crucial and objective protection competency to advance the highest priority efforts to deliver economical, programmatically-executable, and operationally-relevant space protection solutions for the Nation. SSDP-funded activities support NSS stakeholders including the DoW, Intelligence Community (IC), civil, commercial, and international space entities/missions supporting current and future national security operations in both peacetime and throughout all phases of conflict. In this capacity, SSDP employs these funds to lead and collaborate on NSS susceptibility and vulnerability assessments, and threat mitigation processes. Its breadth of activities span the capability to conduct rigorous foundational analyses in order to understand red counterspace threat and blue operations environments, and to plan and execute projects to discover, analyze, and validate near-term and far-term options to detect, track, and mitigate and/or render these threats (including emerging space and transmedium threats) ineffective.

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

## Activities (R-2A) — 1

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Space Protection and Survivability | 53.2 | 45.2 | 100.1 | +122% | [a0](https://hitchintel.com/programs/1206730SF/64A025/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.

### Space Protection and Survivability

In Fiscal Year 2027, SSDP will maintain its commitment to: 1. Understand the adversaries' evolving kill-chains; 2. Expand and deepen knowledge of state-of the-art space-related technologies; and 3. Perform work with strategic purpose, rigor and conviction. As an integral part of the National Security Space (NSS) community, SSDP will…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/1206730SF/64A025/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/1206730SF.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 1206730SF project 64A025 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="1206730SF")`.

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