Anti-Radiation Missile Improvement (PE 0205601N) · Navy

What it is

Anti-Radiation Missile Improvement (0205601N) is a Navy research & development line funded in the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy account. Its J-book detail breaks the line into 4 projects.

What changed

+$11.6M FY25→26 R-1 TOA · PB2026

Who gets it

No single contractor is published as this line's leader. 7 linked award records are listed below. This line's high-confidence links do not clear the floor for a published concentration index — at least 3 awards across 2 contractor families holding positive obligations, with positive net linked dollars. Why the crosswalk is partial.

Budget figures

FY24 Actuals

$83.6MR-1 TOA · PB2026

FY25 Total

$22.1MR-1 TOA · PB2026

FY26 Request

$33.7MR-1 TOA · PB2026

FY25→26 Change

+$11.6MR-1 TOA · PB2026

Data coverage

FY2026 award data is a partial year — USAspending reports awards on a rolling basis, and this corpus runs through 2026-09-04. why partial FY2026 data? →

Budget trajectory

The program's 3 summary figures for FY24 to FY26, plotted in fiscal-year order: this line ends lower than it starts. The points are the summary cards above, not a separate derivation; the table beside the chart carries each figure with its own citation.

Budget trajectory: one row per fiscal year, carrying the summary figure the sparkline plots. Every figure opens its own citation.
Fiscal year	Amount
FY24	$83.6M
FY25	$22.1M
FY26	$33.7M

All series figures: R-1 TOA · PB2026

Decade view

P-1/R-1 workbook TOA basis, shown compact in $B/$M (the workbook records USD thousands); each figure cites its own President's Budget edition

12 fiscal years of this program as published (FY2015–FY2026): a line through the actuals (filled dots), with the enacted (hollow circles) and request (diamonds) markers each edition reported. Read it for direction, not for precision — this program's actuals line rises across the span. The grid below is the same data as text, one cited figure per cell.

The vertical scale does not start at zero: the baseline sits just below this program’s smallest year, so a low point on this line is not a small amount. Read the shape for direction and the grid below for the figures.

● actuals (line) · ○ enacted · ◇ request — gaps are editions the program is absent from, never interpolated.

Decade series values by fiscal year and President's Budget edition: one row per series (actuals, enacted, request), one column per fiscal year. Every figure opens its own citation.
Series	FY15	FY16	FY17	FY18	FY19	FY20	FY21	FY22	FY23	FY24	FY25	FY26
Actuals	$17.4M	$28.1M	$32.9M	$70.4M	$116.9M	$129.9M	$156.6M	$133.3M	$89.2M	$83.6M
Enacted		$23.7M	$48.6M	$88.0M	$120.8M	$132.4M	$161.2M	$138.5M	$89.5M	$59.6M	$22.1M
Request			$48.6M	$88.0M	$120.8M	$138.4M	$146.2M	$133.5M	$90.8M	$59.6M	$28.7M	$33.7M

blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.

Asked vs spent: the PB2024 book requested $59.6M for FY2024; the PB2026 book reported $83.6M as actual total obligation authority — $24.0M above the request. 83.6 − 59.6 = 24.0 USD millions — the compact figures above are rounded for reading.

Program lineage

No predecessor/successor lineage was recorded for this program element — no FY-to-FY transfer into or out of this line was stated in the ingested J-books, and none was inferred from the program structure.

Description

Mission — ANTI-RADIATION MISSILE IMPROVEMENT

Research, Development, Test and Evaluation funding for the Joint Service Anti-Radiation Missile (ARM) program, which will include near and far term performance improvements, cost reduction, and studies that establish future development requirements. JUSTIFICATION FOR BUDGET ACTIVITY: These projects are funded under Operational Systems Development because they include development efforts to upgrade systems that have been fielded or have received approval for full-rate production and anticipate funding in the current or subsequent fiscal year.

Mission — ARM Improvement

Anti-Radiation Missile (ARM) Improvement is a combination of the Navy-led High Speed Anti-Radiation Missile (HARM) program, the Advanced Anti-Radiation Guide Missile (AARGM) program and the Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile Extended Range (AARGM-ER). HARM is a Navy led joint service program with the United States Air Force. AARGM is a program derived from a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) program that developed a dual mode guidance section, incorporating Millimeter Wave (MMW) radar with an advanced anti-radiation homing seeker. Additional AARGM capabilities include Global Positioning System (GPS) enabled point-to-point weapon engagement and missile impact avoidance/missile impact zones, MMW terminal guidance, and a Weapon Impact Assessment (WIA) transmitter to provide Battle Damage Assessment (BDA) cueing. AARGM-ER is a derivative of the AARGM program that repackages the seeker electronics and all of weapon engagement capabilities from AARGM into a new missile shape with a new rocket motor to achieve greater speed, range and survivability. AGM-88 ARM weapon systems require periodic updates to the user database to remain relevant based on changing threat parameters, enhanced air defense engagement tactics and modern complex emerging systems. These funds provide the means to conduct ground and flight testing against actual and surrogate threat systems. Procurement deliverables include anechoic chamber and open-air range test equipment, test missile assets, as well as surrogate threat system radar shapes and surrogate complex emitter systems. Foreign Material Assessment (FMA) evaluates AGM-88 ARM performance against threat systems to develop alternative Concept of Operations (CONOPs) against emerging threat capabilities. FMA testing also includes assessment of special project efforts to support advanced kill-chain capability development against threat systems. FMA deliverables include, but not limited to, analytical reports on findings, critical updates to fleet tactics manuals, curriculum changes to the Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses / Destruction of Enemy Air Defenses lead Air Combat Training Curriculum course work and weapon school tactics/training and procedure briefs. FMA focuses on air defense weapon system exploitation, analysis and subsequent integration and response to ensure that the AGM-88 ARM weapon systems family remains relevant in the planned operational environment.

Mission — AARGM

Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile (AARGM) transitioned a Phase III Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to develop and demonstrate a multi-mode guidance section on a High-Speed Anti-Radiation Missile (HARM) airframe to System Development and Demonstration (SD&D) in FY 2003. The AARGM SD&D program was designed to integrate multi-mode guidance (passive Anti-Radiation Homing (ARH)/active Millimeter Wave (MMW) Radar/Global Positioning System (GPS)/Inertial Navigation System) on the HARM Air-to-Ground Missile (AGM)-88. Planned AARGM weapon system capabilities include: active MMW terminal guidance to counter shutdown, expanded threat coverage, enhanced ARH, Weapon Impact Assessment (WIA) transmitted prior to detonation, GPS/point-to-point weapon navigation, enhanced navigational performance in denied environments and weapon employment with impact avoidance zone/missile impact zones. Milestone C was achieved 4Q FY 2008, followed by a combined FY 2008/FY 2009 Low-Rate Initial Production (LRIP) contract award in 1Q FY 2009. Full-Rate Production (FRP) decision was received 4Q FY 2012, with FRP deliveries beginning in 2Q FY 2014. The AARGM Block 1 Upgrade program began in FY 2012 for a software only upgrade with follow-on Operational Test and Evaluation/Integrated Test (FOT&E/IT) of the Block 1 Upgrade completed Q4 FY 2017. FY 2026 funding continues to support AARGM ELINT file upgrades, lab ground and flight tests, continuation of AARGM integration into the new mission planning tool, and technology infusion for obsolescence mitigations.

Mission — AARGM ER

The Air-to-Ground (AGM)-88G AARGM-ER Upgrade was a new start in FY 2016. The purpose of this effort is to develop hardware and software modifications to improve the Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile (AARGM)'s operational capabilities, including extended range, survivability and effectiveness against complex, new, and emerging threats. This budget line item funds a new rocket motor design, system development and integration, test asset procurement, testing, correction of deficiencies, and associated software updates for the AARGM-ER to ensure these capabilities perform in accordance with established requirements. AARGM-ER retains the same guidance and sensor capabilities of the AARGM. The AARGM-ER program is part of the Navy's approach to address advanced threat capabilities in the Anti-Access/Area-Denial (A2/AD) environment. Solutions enable individual system capabilities to be leveraged across an effects chain, placing the full spectrum of tactical capability in the hands of the warfighter. Solutions that push engagement distances beyond the launch platform's radar horizon and allows the U.S. Navy to operate in, and control, contested battle space in littoral waters and A2/AD environments are increasingly critical as more scenarios require compressed and coordinated fire control timelines.

Mission — Congressional Adds

The FY 2024 program increase funds research, prototyping, test and demonstration related to incorporating Solid Fuel Ramjet (SFRJ) into tactically relevant form-factors to achieve supersonic speeds, reduced time to target and increased range while leveraging existing manufacturing processes and affordable materials, helping to increase capabilities while keeping costs low relative to comparable engines.

Justification

No accomplishments or planned-program narratives in this line's J-book detail — some exhibits carry figures without per-project prose.

Budget line items(workbook-cited)

P-1/R-1 workbook Total Obligation Authority basis (USD thousands) · PB2026.

Exhibit R-1

Account	Org	Type	Amount
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy	N	FY24 Actuals	$83.6M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy	N	FY25 Enacted	$22.1M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy	N	FY25 Total	$22.1M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy	N	FY26 Disc. Request	$33.7M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy	N	FY26 Total	$33.7M

Budget Details(R-2/P-40 facts)

J-book detail basis (R-2/P-40, USD millions) · PB2026 — a different accounting basis from the P-1/R-1 workbook TOA above; where the two disagree, the reconciliation strip under Budget figures shows both.

Wider than this screen — swipe the table sideways for the remaining fiscal-year columns.

Project	All Prior Years	FY24 Actuals	FY25 Total	FY26 Base	FY26 Request
Program Element	$1.49B	$83.6M	$22.1M	$33.7M	$33.7M
1780: ARM Improvement	$88.8M	$6.59M	$4.27M	$7.02M	$7.02M
2185: AARGM	$776.0M	$1.03M	$1.02M	$951.0K	$951.0K
2189: AARGM ER	$625.2M	$51.8M	$16.8M	$25.7M	$25.7M
9999: Congressional Adds	$0	$24.1M	$0	$0	$0

Follow the dollar

No follow-the-dollar view — none of this program's high-confidence awards records a positive obligation at any place of performance (flows cover 312 of 1,938 programs). why coverage is partial? →

Related awards

Award linkage is shown for 32 of 200 profiled companies — high- and medium-confidence USAspending matches, each row labeled; medium is the weaker evidence. why partial award coverage? →

Rows marked medium rest on evidence weaker than a program-level match, and of more than one kind. An account-based row, where the award drew from the same appropriation account as this program, is an association, not evidence that this program paid for the contract. Where the evidence is instead an FPDS acquisition-program tag or a subaward description, the program is established but which of its budget lines paid is not. An announcement link a recorded review did not leave standing is medium too. Only high rows rest on the contract naming this program with a recorded review upholding it and no recorded rejection or refutation applying.

Recipient	PIID	Confidence
ALLIANT TECHSYSTEMS OPERATIONS LLC	N0001917G0011	high
ALLIANT TECHSYSTEMS OPERATIONS LLC	N0001917C0005	medium
ALLIANT TECHSYSTEMS OPERATIONS LLC	N0001917F0384	medium
ALLIANT TECHSYSTEMS OPERATIONS LLC	N0001917F0406	medium
ALLIANT TECHSYSTEMS OPERATIONS LLC	N0001918F0507	medium
ALLIANT TECHSYSTEMS OPERATIONS LLC	N0001918F0582	medium
ALLIANT TECHSYSTEMS OPERATIONS LLC	N0001919C0049	medium

Contractor concentration

No concentration index is published for this line. This line's high-confidence links do not clear the floor for a published concentration index — at least 3 awards across 2 contractor families holding positive obligations, with positive net linked dollars. An index below that floor is a fact about the sample, not about the market. Whatever further links this line carries are medium-confidence, and what each medium evidence path does and does not establish is set out in the methodology. Both bases are in the downloadable warehouse.

Lobbying mentions

24 mentions from the Senate LDA disclosure database.

BOEING COMPANYMissile|Improvement2026matched 2+ title words

H.R.4016 & S.2572 Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2026. H.R.5342 & 2354 - Commerce, Justice, Science and…

Anti-Radiation Missile Improvement

Budget figures

Budget trajectory

Decade view

Program lineage

Description

Mission — ANTI-RADIATION MISSILE IMPROVEMENT source

Mission — ARM Improvement source

Mission — AARGM source

Mission — AARGM ER source

Mission — Congressional Adds source