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RDT&E Program Element · President's Budget PB2027

Counter - Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems

PE 0205401JCA·Defense-Wide·Approp. 0400 — RDT&E·BA5 — System Development & Demonstration
FY2027 Request
$580.3M
◆ Development crest → decline
◆ New start in FY2027 — no prior-year funding
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Defense-Wide requests $580.3M in FY2027 against nothing enacted in FY2026, before stepping down 82% across the five-year plan. In the FY2027 defense authorization, the House funded it in full; the Senate funded it in full; House appropriators funded it in full.

FY2027 Request
$580.3M
No FY2026 funding
FY2026 Enacted
$0.0M
No FY2025 funding
FY2025 Actual
$0.0M
Prior year

For fiscal year 2027, Defense-Wide agencies are requesting $580.3M for Counter - Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems under RDT&E program element 0205401JCA, against nothing enacted in FY2026.

Funding trajectory

Funding profile, FY2025–FY2031

Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.

15030045000.0FY25ACTUAL0.0FY26ENACTED580.3FY27REQUEST580.5FY28581.3FY29101.4FY30102.4FY31
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual0.0
FY2026Enacted0.0
FY2027Request580.3
FY2028Outyear580.5
FY2029Outyear581.3
FY2030Outyear101.4
FY2031Outyear102.4
Where it sits

Acquisition lifecycle

This program is funded in RDT&E Budget Activity 5 — System Development & Demonstration.

Complete
Research
BA 1–2
Complete
Advanced Technology
BA 3
Complete
Prototyping
BA 4
Current
Development & Fielding
BA 5–7
Inside the program element

1 project rolls up into PE 0205401JCA

Projects are the summable leaves — the PE total is their sum, never added to it. Program elements and projects carry the full five-year plan; activities stop at the budget year.

Project 001

C-SUAS Joint New Capabilities

$580.3MFY2027 request NEW
FY2025 actual—
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$580.3M
Product Development

Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-sUAS) efforts will demonstrate and support advance prototype efforts with technologies and concepts to enable and/or accelerate their transition to acquisition programs. The efforts will address technical gaps between initial technologies or concept development and quickly transition to warfighter capabilities. Efforts will explore new concepts and their applications in potential future operating environments within a systems-of-systems context. These joint advanced prototyping efforts will inform future requirements and support Military Services' acquisition strategy planning to address the evolving s-UAS threats and new environments to which C-sUAS must be deployed.

Accomplishments / planned programs (R-2A) — prior, current and budget year only
C-sUAS Prototyping New Joint CapabilitiesNEW
FY2025 actual—
FY2026 enacted—
FY2027 request$580.3M

JIATF 401 will pursue the acceleration of a layered defeat portfolio, including options to ensure the protection of critical assets across diverse operational environments. Our approach is system-agnostic, focused on identifying and integrating the most effective capabilities to meet operational needs by addressing each stage of the kill…

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Congressional action

Congressional marks

Committee marks on the FY2027 request. Adds and cuts are reconciled in conference before they become law.

RequestPresident's Budget
$580.3M
House NDAA (HASC)HASC
$580.3M full · +$0
Senate NDAA (SASC)SASC
$580.3M full · +$0
House Approps (HAC-D)HAC_D
$580.3M full · +$0
unresolved as of 2026-07-27. These are FY2027 authorization marks (NDAA); appropriations and the conference agreement may differ.
Who's building it

Where the FY2027 request goes

Performers named in the R-3 exhibit, resolved into industry, government-lab, and unspecified shares. Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations.

Where FY2027 funding flowsShare$M
Other / unspecified100%580.3
FY2027 request100%580.3
Program detail

Mission & acquisition strategy

The FY 2026 spend plan amount for Research, Development, Test & Evaluation (RDT&E) - Counter - Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems includes $0 thousand of discretionary and $6,500 thousand of mandatory (reconciliation) for a total of $6,500 thousand. The Joint Interagency Task Force 401 (JIATF 401) is the Department of War (DoW) lead organization to counter small Unmanned Aerial Systems (C-sUAS). JIATF 401 synchronizes C-UAS efforts across the DoW to rapidly deliver joint capabilities at scale to defend the homeland, protect US and allied forces, defend critical infrastructure, and assist federal agencies.

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Project 001 — C-SUAS Joint New Capabilities
  • Product Development
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FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification · Exhibits R-2 / R-3 · PE 0205401JCA (President's Budget PB2027) — and FY2027 NDAA committee marks, as tracked 2026-07-27.
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