Printed from https://fiscalreceipts.com/program/0901598C/ — built September 26, 2026. Every figure is citation-backed; see the page online for per-number provenance.
Management HQ - MDA
Budget figures
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
| Fiscal year | Amount |
|---|---|
| FY24 | $28.4M |
| FY25 | $29.0M |
| FY26 | $28.7M |
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
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.
| Series | FY15 | FY16 | FY17 | FY18 | FY19 | FY20 | FY21 | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actuals | $35.6M | $35.9M | $30.7M | $29.9M | $28.6M | $27.1M | $26.9M | $24.1M | $26.4M | $28.4M | ||
| Enacted | $35.9M | $31.2M | $29.9M | $28.6M | $27.1M | $26.9M | $24.1M | $25.3M | $28.4M | $29.0M | ||
| Request | $31.2M | $29.9M | $28.6M | $27.1M | $26.9M | $24.1M | $25.3M | $28.4M | $29.0M | $28.7M |
blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.
Asked vs spent: the PB2023 book requested $25.3M for FY2023; the PB2025 book reported $26.4M as actual total obligation authority — $1.09M above the request. 26.4 − 25.3 = 1.1 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 — Management HQ - MDA
As prescribed by Department of Defense (DoD) Instruction 5100.73 Major Headquarters Activities (MHA), the Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) MHA Program Element supports the operation of MDA and funds government civilian salaries and benefits, travel, contract support services, and operations of non-fielded activities. MHA provides executive leadership planning; develops centralized agency policy; prepares and defends annual budget submissions; responds to external inquiries; and implements Secretary of Defense and Presidential priorities. As a DoD research, development and acquisition agency, the Headquarters Activities provide cost efficient oversight, direction, and control of initiatives and processes that assure best value, high quality, on-time, and successful performance of MDA acquisition programs. This is accomplished by ensuring acquisition and procurement program management emphasizes systems engineering; incorporates lifecycle management objectives; implements risk management; and assesses cost, schedule or performance trade-offs.
Mission — Management Headquarters
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Headquarters provides oversight, direction and control over MDA's acquisition programs and fielded systems. The MDA Headquarters staff functions (government salaries, government travel, and contract support services) support the mission and operations of the world-wide MDA mission.
Justification
Accomplishments & Planned Programs (3)
MHA Civilian Salaries
Provide mission support, oversight, and management of: - Acquisition, implementation of international initiatives to increase missile defense coverage to deployed forces and allies, efficiency-oriented administrative services, business operations, financial resources, human capitol, general counsel, internal review, public affairs, and media release. Specific and/or unique accomplishments to each Fiscal Year (FY) are as follows:
MHA Travel
Provide mission essential government travel.
MHA Contract Services
Provide contract support services to mission activities for acquisition, business operations, internal review, general counsel, administrative support and public affairs. Specific and/or unique accomplishments to each FY are as follows:
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, Defense-Wide | MDA | FY24 Actuals | $28.4M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide | MDA | FY25 Enacted | $29.0M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide | MDA | FY25 Total | $29.0M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide | MDA | FY26 Disc. Request | $28.7M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide | MDA | FY26 Total | $28.7M |
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 | $360.4M | $28.4M | $29.0M | $28.7M | $28.7M |
| MD38: Management Headquarters | $360.4M | $28.4M | $29.0M | $28.7M | $28.7M |
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
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 Management HQ - MDA. No program-specific GAO finding for this line is in the ingested data. See the DOD oversight record.
Program dossier
No research dossier for this program — dossiers cover 50 of 1,938 programs, the largest fully J-book-detailed lines by FY2026 requested dollars. why no dossier here? →
Primary sources
Open any budget figure for its exact receipt. Verified line items lead with the highlighted government PDF; original spreadsheets download with their budget edition and exhibit in the filename.
Budget totals · TOA sources
FY2026 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J1067
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2026_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2017 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J850
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2017_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2018 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J966
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2018_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2019 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J994
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2019_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2020 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J995
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2020_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2021 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J1061
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2021_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2022 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J1037
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2022_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2023 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J1008
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2023_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2024 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J1010
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2024_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2025 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J1039
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2025_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
Detailed budget justification
The related TOA spreadsheets above use a different accounting basis from R-2/P-40 detail. Their amounts are not assumed to match these detailed sources.
RDTE Vol2 MDA RDTE PB26 Justification Book · comptroller.war.gov
PDF page 996