Fiscal Receipts

Special Programs - MDA

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What it is
Special Programs - MDA is a research and development budget line run by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), funded through the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide account. The program is reported in accordance with Title 10, United States Code, Section 119 in the annual Special Access Program Budget Justification submission to Congress — meaning it is a classified special-access program.
What changed
+$325.9M FY25→26 R-1 TOA · PB2026
Who gets it
No award linkage at high confidence.

Budget Figures

FY24 Actuals
$551.0MR-1 TOA · PB2026
FY25 Total
$495.6MR-1 TOA · PB2026
FY26 Request
$821.4MR-1 TOA · PB2026
39.3% reconciliation

$498.6M discretionary + $322.8M one-time reconciliation. Discretionary change vs FY2025 enacted: +0.6%.

FY25→26 Change
+$325.9MR-1 TOA · PB2026

Two official figures, one label— reconciled below

Fiscal Receipts uses P-1/R-1 workbook total obligation authority (TOA) as the headline figure sitewide. The workbook TOA includes budget rows (such as advance procurement) that the R-2/P-40 J-book program line excludes. How the two bases relate →

FY26 Request · $821.4M TOA − $498.6M J-book line = 322.8M (821.4 − 498.6 = 322.8)

Figures in the sentence are rounded for reading; the parenthesised arithmetic is the same subtraction in USD millions, at the precision where it closes.

FY2026 award data is a partial year — USASpending awards are reported on a rolling basis and the fiscal year does not close until September 30. why partial FY2026 data? →

Budget Trajectory
The program's 3 summary figures for FY24 to FY26, plotted in fiscal-year order so the direction of travel is readable at a glance: this line ends higher 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.
The program's 3 summary figures for FY24 to FY26, plotted in fiscal-year order so the direction of travel is readable at a glance: this line ends higher 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.FY24: $551.0MFY25: $495.6MFY26: $821.4MFY24FY25FY26
Budget trajectory: one row per fiscal year, carrying the summary figure the sparkline plots. Every figure opens its own citation.
Fiscal yearAmount
FY24$551.0M
FY25$495.6M
FY26$821.4M

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.
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.FY2015 actuals — PB2017 editionFY2016 actuals — PB2018 editionFY2017 actuals — PB2019 editionFY2018 actuals — PB2020 editionFY2019 actuals — PB2021 editionFY2020 actuals — PB2022 editionFY2021 actuals — PB2023 editionFY2022 actuals — PB2024 editionFY2023 actuals — PB2025 editionFY2024 actuals — PB2026 editionFY2016 enacted — PB2017 editionFY2017 enacted — PB2018 editionFY2018 enacted — PB2019 editionFY2019 enacted — PB2020 editionFY2020 enacted — PB2021 editionFY2021 enacted — PB2022 editionFY2022 enacted — PB2023 editionFY2023 enacted — PB2024 editionFY2024 enacted — PB2025 editionFY2025 enacted — PB2026 editionFY2017 request — PB2017 editionFY2018 request — PB2018 editionFY2019 request — PB2019 editionFY2020 request — PB2020 editionFY2021 request — PB2021 editionFY2022 request — PB2022 editionFY2023 request — PB2023 editionFY2024 request — PB2024 editionFY2025 request — PB2025 editionFY2026 request — PB2026 editionFY15FY18FY20FY22FY24FY26

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.
SeriesFY15FY16FY17FY18FY19FY20FY21FY22FY23FY24FY25FY26
Actuals$301.2M$390.3M$289.4M$356.6M$418.7M$504.0M$380.2M$443.5M$317.6M$551.0M
Enacted$400.4M$323.6M$365.2M$422.3M$512.1M$390.2M$413.4M$317.0M$552.9M$495.6M
Request$321.6M$320.2M$422.3M$377.1M$420.2M$413.4M$317.0M$552.9M$495.6M$821.4M

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

Asked vs spent: the PB2020 book requested $377.1M for FY2020; the PB2022 book reported $504.0M as actual total obligation authority — $126.9M above the request. 504.0 − 377.1 = 126.9 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 — Special Programs - MDA

This program is reported in accordance with Title 10, United States Code, Section 119 in the annual Special Access Program Budget Justification submission to Congress.

Mission — Special Programs

This program is reported in accordance with Title 10, United States Code, Section 119(a)(1) in the Special Access Program Annual Report to Congress.

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

AccountOrgTypeAmount
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-WideMDAFY24 Actuals$551.0M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-WideMDAFY25 Enacted$495.6M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-WideMDAFY25 Total$495.6M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-WideMDAFY26 Disc. Request$498.6M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-WideMDAFY26 Reconciliation$322.8M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-WideMDAFY26 Total$821.4M

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.

ProjectAll Prior YearsFY24 ActualsFY25 TotalFY26 BaseFY26 Request
Program Element$4.19B$551.0M$495.6M$498.6M$498.6M
MD27: Special Programs$4.19B$551.0M$495.6M$498.6M$498.6M

No follow-the-dollar view — this program's awards haven't been crosswalked at high confidence (flows cover 17 of 1,741 programs). why coverage is partial? →

Awards

No awards are linked to this program element at high confidence — the budget→award crosswalk only asserts links it can defend, and this line has none yet.

Lobbying Mentions

No Senate LDA lobbying filing in the tracked data mentions this program element by code or alias.

Oversight

Department-level designation (not specific to this program)

GAO lists 5 high-risk areas for DOD as a whole. That designation covers the department, not Special Programs - MDA — no program-specific GAO finding for this line is in the ingested data. See the DOD oversight record.

Program dossier

Every sentence below carries its citation — warehouse figures open the citation panel, news claims link the cached source.

Research dossiers exist for 50 of 1,741 programs — the 50 largest fully J-book-detailed programs by FY2026 request. why no dossier here? →

What it is

  • Special Programs - MDA is a research and development budget line run by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), funded through the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide account.
  • The program is reported in accordance with Title 10, United States Code, Section 119 in the annual Special Access Program Budget Justification submission to Congress — meaning it is a classified special-access program.
  • It is also reported under Title 10, U.S. Code, Section 119(a)(1) in the Special Access Program Annual Report to Congress.
  • The program's budget detail is organized under a single project, MD27, titled 'Special Programs.'
  • Across all prior years, the program had accumulated $4,190.494 million (about $4.19 billion) in funding.

Why it matters

  • The program spent $551.028 million (recorded as $551,028 thousand) in actual funding in fiscal year 2024.
  • For fiscal year 2025, Congress enacted $495.57 million (recorded as $495,570 thousand).
  • The full fiscal year 2026 request totals $821.43 million (recorded as $821,430 thousand).
  • That fiscal year 2026 total combines a base discretionary request of $498.63 million (recorded as $498,630 thousand) with an additional reconciliation request of $322.8 million (recorded as $322,800 thousand).
  • The reconciliation portion of the fiscal year 2026 request is $322,800 thousand, roughly $322.8 million.
  • The change from FY2025 to FY2026 amounts to an increase of $325.86 million (recorded as $325,860 thousand).

Key players

  • The program is managed by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), and its budget detail is captured entirely within a single organizational component.

Recent developments

  • An automated budget-tracking event flagged that Special Programs - MDA increased 66% from FY2025 to FY2026, a jump of $325,860 thousand from $495,570 thousand to $821,430 thousand.

Primary Sources