The FY2027 President's Budget requests $69.1M for Unmanned Aircraft Systems, within Homeland Security's Procurement, Construction, and Improvements account. That is up 9117% on the FY2026 figure of $0.8M, which is a continuing-resolution annualized figure, not an enacted appropriation.
FY2025–FY2027
| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | enacted | $0.8M |
| FY2026 | CR annualized | $0.8M |
| FY2027 | request | $69.1M |
The prior-year column is a CR annualized figure — the rate a continuing resolution funds at, not an enacted appropriation. The two are different numbers and are not interchangeable. Bases are separate columns and are never summed into one figure.
Homeland Security discretionary budget authority
From the OMB Public Budget Database — clean, summable, and the figure to cite for an agency total. It is the whole of Homeland Security's discretionary request, not a total of the parsed lines above, and this page never adds the two together.
What this funds
This investment provides for the acquisition of long-range UAS (LR-UAS) and pre-acquisition activities to expand medium-range UAS (MR-UAS) capability from the NSC fleet to shore-based platforms and other cutter classes. The UAS program provides persistent airborne information, surveillance, and reconnaissance capability for USCG operations. The FY 2027 Budget supports procurement of additional LR-UAS capability and initiates program management activities to expand MR-UAS capability to shore-based platforms and additional cutter classes. Funding for Short-Range UAS activities is not included. The Working Families Tax Cut Act provided $266M for procurement and acquisition of long-range unmanned aircraft and base stations, equipment related to such aircraft and base stations, and program management for such aircraft and base stations. ' Release follow-on contract to industry. ' Initiate analysis of MR-UAS capability expansion across cutter classes and to shore-based platforms.
Extracted from United States Coast Guard, p. 6. Verbatim; nothing here is paraphrased.
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