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An F/A-18 carries an Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile Extended Range (AARGM-ER) during a test.

Program · United States · U.S. Navy

AGM-88G Aargm-ER

Extended-range anti-radiation missile for targeting hostile air-defense systems.

Updated
ProductionU.S. Navy

Cost to the Government

Program totals · 2

  • Annual RDT&E fundingAARGM-ER · Navy RDT&E only. Annual research, development, test and evaluation funding in the March 2024 budget presentation; FY2024 and FY2025 are request figures. Not a lifetime R&D total or actual expenditure.
    FY2025 Program Acquisition Costs by Weapon System DoD Comptroller · Mar 2024 · figure FY2025 · FY2025 budget book
    $28.7M / yrNominal $; source budget basis
  • Procurement requestNavy line only; separate Air Force funding is excluded.
    Navy
    FY2025 Program Acquisition Costs by Weapon System DoD Comptroller · Mar 2024 · figure FY2025
    $248.6MNominal $; source budget basis

Unit costs · 1

  • Procurement funding / missileDerived from $248.6M divided by 157 requested missiles. Includes the budget procurement scope; not a quoted bare-round price.
    Navy
    FY2025 Program Acquisition Costs by Weapon System DoD Comptroller · Mar 2024 · figure FY2025 request
    $1.583MNominal $; source budget basis

Quantities · 2

  • Requested missilesNavy only. The separate Air Force line requests 128; neither is an inventory count.
    Navy
    FY2025 Program Acquisition Costs by Weapon System DoD Comptroller · Mar 2024 · figure FY2025 request
    157U.S. only; stated source scope
  • U.S. inventoryA current U.S. inventory was not established. Annual procurement, cumulative deliveries and production capacity are not a stockpile count.
    Source not recorded
    Not established

Operating costs · 1

  • Annual operations & supportA complete, system-specific annual operating and support cost was not established. Procurement, replacement rounds and contract support are different measures.
    Source not recorded
    Not established
Earlier observations · 4

Superseded estimates and prices, each in its original scope and dollar basis.

Program totals · 3

Unit costs · 1

  • Procurement funding / missileDerived from $248.6M divided by 157 requested missiles. Includes the budget procurement scope; not a quoted bare-round price.
    Navy
    FY2025 Program Acquisition Costs by Weapon System DoD Comptroller · Mar 2024 · figure FY2025 request
    $1.583MNominal $; source budget basis

1AARGM-ER · Navy RDT&E only. Annual research, development, test and evaluation funding in the March 2024 budget presentation; FY2024 and FY2025 are request figures. Not a lifetime R&D total or actual expenditure.

Do not merge service development lines

The Navy RDT&E series is retained as an annual funding measure. The broader Air Force work is not added as if it were the Navy missile development total.

Open research: Current U.S. inventory and complete annual operating-and-support costs require additional public evidence. Buyer records are selected examples, not a complete global order book.

What the government budgets and pays for this program, from budget justification books, appropriations, acquisition reports and contract announcements. Each figure states its dollar basis. What contractors were obligated is under Contracts.

Contracts$277K obligated since FY2008

Contractors1

  1. Northrop Grumman$277K 100%

Awards1

Obligations are signed USAspending prime-contract actions coded to this program, FY2008 to date, credited to the company that received each action. Obligations are money committed, not company revenue.