Aviation Rocket System Product… (PE 0607142A) · Army

What it is

Aviation Rocket System Product Improvement and Development (0607142A) is an Army research & development line funded in the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army account. Its J-book detail breaks the line into 1 project.

What changed

No FY25→26 comparison — endpoints unavailable or on different bases.

Who gets it

No company is linked to this line. Award records do not carry the program element, so the crosswalk is silent here — why.

Budget figures

FY24 Actuals

$2.90MR-1 TOA · PB2026

FY25 Enacted

Not in the FY2026 J-books we ingested

FY26 Request

$0J-book detail · PB2026

FY25→26 Change

No comparison: endpoints unavailable or on different bases

No FY2026 R-1/P-1 request line for this program element. The FY2026 President's Budget request workbook carries no FY2026 line for it; its last workbook figure is FY2024. The PB2026 J-book detail below does carry an FY2026 row for this line, recorded as zero. A workbook blank and a documented zero are different records, and this page shows both. An absent line is not by itself an ending — PB2026 renumbered program elements at scale across the services and defense agencies, so this work may continue under a different number. No successor is linked for this line: this site's program-lineage layer holds no keyed edge pointing forward from here. That is an absence in this site's lineage layer, not a finding about the program: if the J-book narrative on this page describes a realignment, it is quoted below in the document's own words, and this note does not restate it.

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 2 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	$2.90MR-1 TOA · PB2026
FY26	$0J-book detail · 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

9 fiscal years of this program as published (FY2016–FY2024): 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	FY16	FY17	FY18	FY19	FY20	FY21	FY22	FY23	FY24
Actuals	$0	$0	$9.66M	$35.2M	$1.85M	$11.3M	$8.83M	$10.9M	$2.90M
Enacted	–	$8.00M	$10.1M	$38.5M	$1.93M	$13.4M	$12.4M	$11.3M	$3.01M
Request		–	$10.1M	$60.9M	$24.2M	$17.2M	$12.4M	$11.3M	$3.01M

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

Asked vs spent: the PB2019 book requested $60.9M for FY2019; the PB2021 book reported $35.2M as actual total obligation authority — $25.6M below the request. 35.21 − 60.86 = -25.65 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 — Aviation Rocket System Product Improvement and Development

The Aviation Rockets and Small Guided Munitions Product Improvement and Development line funds the development, integration and test of current and future munitions and launchers, and their interface to platforms. Additionally, it will fund a range of improvement initiatives to modernize the Hydra-70 2.75 inch rocket and launcher system. The current Hydra-70 2.75 inch rocket system requires performance improvements to comply with 1) US Code - Title 10, Chapter 141, Section 2389 "Ensuring Safety regarding Insensitive Munitions", 2) Department of Defense (DoD) Directive 5000.1, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) Instruction 3170.01C, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics (OUSD (AT&L)) Memorandum of January 26, 1999, "Exemption for Existing Inventory Items to Insensitive Munitions (IM) Requirements", 3) signed Initial Capability Document (ICD) for Army Aviation Weapons, Sub-Systems and Munitions (AAWSSM), 4) Air Launched Effects (ALE) Initial Capability Refinement Document (ICRD) dated 21 October 2019, and 5) existing/emerging Headquarters, Department of the Army (HQDA) G-3/5/7 and U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) aviation weapon requirements for guided and unguided rocket and munition systems. Improvements to existing rocket systems and munitions will include design, qualification and integration of precision guidance capability, increased lethality, improved target suppression, increased standoff range, reduced minimum engagement range, improved pre-launch constraints and munitions communications/programmability, increased stowed kills, increased product reliability, improved hardness against unplanned stimuli, reduced Warfighter workload, and reduced environmental impact for both manned and unmanned applications. PE 0607142A EW9 has no FY 2026 funding request

Mission — Aviation Rocket System Product Improvement and Dev

The Aviation Rockets and Small Guided Munitions Product Improvement and Development line funds the development, integration and test of current and future munitions and launchers, and their interface to platforms. Additionally, it will fund a range of improvement initiatives to modernize the Hydra-70 2.75 inch rocket and launcher system. The current Hydra-70 2.75 inch rocket system requires performance improvements to comply with 1) US Code - Title 10, Chapter 141, Section 2389 "Ensuring Safety regarding Insensitive Munitions", 2) Department of Defense (DoD) Directive 5000.1, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) Instruction 3170.01C, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics (OUSD (AT&L)) Memorandum of January 26, 1999, "Exemption for Existing Inventory Items to Insensitive Munitions (IM) Requirements", 3) signed Initial Capability Document (ICD) for Army Aviation Weapons, Sub-Systems and Munitions (AAWSSM), 4) Air Launched Effects (ALE) Initial Capability Refinement Document (ICRD) dated 21 October 2019, and 5) existing/emerging Headquarters, Department of the Army (HQDA) G-3/5/7 and U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) aviation weapon requirements for guided and unguided rocket and munition systems. Improvements to existing rocket systems and munitions will include design, qualification and integration of precision guidance capability, increased lethality, improved target suppression, increased standoff range, reduced minimum engagement range, improved pre-launch constraints and munitions communications/programmability, increased stowed kills, increased product reliability, improved hardness against unplanned stimuli, reduced Warfighter workload, and reduced environmental impact for both manned and unmanned applications. PE 0607142A EW9 has no FY 2026 funding request.

Justification

Accomplishments & Planned Programs (3)

Guided Air-to-Ground Rocket (AGR) variants (Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS))

These funds will be used to optimize current and future air-to ground variant integration on the Apache and for activities required to obtain an Army Materiel Release. This effort will utilize in-house expertise and Other Government Agencies in order to complete activities, including design and build of all-up-round (AUR) containers and test assets, conduct of environmental qualification testing, performance of ground firings, update of aviation platform software, support of Apache weapon survey firings, technical support to platform integration and testing, and development and revision of training/maintenance materiel.

Army Aviation Weapons

These funds will be used for fielded Army Aviation modular weapon systems and their interface to fielded launchers and platforms. These efforts will utilize in-house subject matter expertise, Other Government Agencies, defense industry capabilities, and Other Transactional Agreements to complete activities, including technical assessment, risk reduction efforts, technology maturation, demonstration, engineering design, engineering/manufacturing development, test, integration and document preparation for Army Aviation manned and unmanned platforms.

Modular Effects Launcher (MEL)/Launcher Electronics Assembly (LEA)

These funds will be used to upgrade and enhance launcher components to support current and future munitions outlined in the Army Aviation Weapons, Sub-Systems and Munitions Initial Capability Document, dated 17 July 2018, and the Air Launched Effects (ALE) Initial Capability Refinement Document (ICRD), dated 21 October 2019. This effort allows the Government to align technology-enabling solutions with the Army Aviation Weapons, Sub-Systems and Munitions Initial Capability Document, maturing technological developments of launcher component prototypes to mitigate launcher limitations. The launcher component efforts will define and provide the interfaces between aircraft and emerging munitions utilizing a nonproprietary, open systems architecture allowing easy compatibility when integrating onto aviation platforms. The inherent flexibility of an open architecture serves as a building block for future weapon systems.

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, Army	A	FY24 Actuals	$2.90M

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	FY24 Actuals	FY26 Request
Program Element	$2.90M	$0
EW9: Aviation Rocket System Product Improvement and Dev	$2.90M	—

Follow the dollar

No follow-the-dollar view — this program's awards haven't been crosswalked at high confidence (flows cover 312 of 1,938 programs). why coverage is partial? →

Awards

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

Lobbying mentions

Showing 25 of 41 from the Senate LDA disclosure database.

BOEING COMPANYAviation|Improvement2026matched 2+ title words

H.R.4552 & S.2465 - Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026. FY27…

Aviation Rocket System Product Improvement and Development

Budget figures

Budget trajectory

Decade view

Program lineage

Description

Mission — Aviation Rocket System Product Improvement and Development source

Mission — Aviation Rocket System Product Improvement and Dev source

Justification

Accomplishments & Planned Programs (3)

Budget line items(workbook-cited)

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

Follow the dollar

Awards

Lobbying mentions

Oversight

Program dossier

Primary sources

Budget totals · TOA sources

Detailed budget justification

Mission — Aviation Rocket System Product Improvement and Development

Mission — Aviation Rocket System Product Improvement and Dev