Project DC6
—FY2027 request ▼ 100%Sci & Analysis for Autonomous Sys & Counter-Auton
FY2025 actual$0.3M
FY2026 enacted$5.2M
FY2027 request—
FY2027 Request
$0.0M
▼ 100% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$9.5M
▲ 872% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$1.0M
Prior year
Roll-up of 2 projects. Projects are the summable leaves — the PE total is their sum, never added to it.
For fiscal year 2027, the U.S. Army is requesting $0.0M for Army Agile Innovation and Development-Applied Research under RDT&E program element 0602002A, down 100% from FY2026.
Funding trajectory
Funding profile, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 1.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 9.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 0.0 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 0.0 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 0.0 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 0.0 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 0.0 |
Where it sits
Acquisition lifecycle
This program is funded in RDT&E Budget Activity 2 — Applied Research.
Current
Research
BA 1–2
Later
Advanced Technology
BA 3
Later
Prototyping
BA 4
Later
Development & Fielding
BA 5–7
Inside the program element
2 projects roll up into PE 0602002A
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. This PE moves -100% overall, which can hide much larger swings below.
Project DC4
—FY2027 request ▼ 100%Army Applied Innovation
FY2025 actual$0.7M
FY2026 enacted$4.3M
FY2027 request—
Program detail
Mission & acquisition strategy
This Program Element (PE) funds the Army's goal of assessing and seeding innovative research solutions to achieve future force modernization. Critical technologies that allow for technological superiority are increasingly dual-use or developed in academia-led partnerships that leverage cutting edge innovation. Cross-cutting modernization initiatives leverage strategic partnerships and foster an environment to bring knowledge and expertise to demonstrate breakthrough and innovative technologies that will benefit the warfighter.
Project DC6, DC4 — Sci & Analysis for Autonomous Sys & Counter-Auton
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FY2027 Department of the Army RDT&E Budget Justification · Exhibits R-2 / R-3 · PE 0602002A (President's Budget PB2027).
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FY2027 Request
$0.0M
▼ 100% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$5.2M
▲ 1982% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$0.3M
Prior year
Sci & Analysis for Autonomous Sys & Counter-Auton — one RDT&E project inside PE 0602002A. Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, not on a project.
Project DC6 — Sci & Analysis for Autonomous Sys & Counter-Auton — requests — in FY2027. Year over year it falls 100% against FY2026.
Funding trajectory
Project DC6 funding, FY2025–FY2026
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
Actual Enacted
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 5.2 |
Inside the project
2 accomplishments / planned programs
The R-2A exhibit. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan — and they are descriptive: coverage is partial and they do not always add back to the project, so count them, never total them.
Threat and Operations Based Intelligent Autonomy Science (TOBIAS)▼ 100%
FY2025 actual$0.3M
FY2026 enacted$2.2M
FY2027 request—
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding decrease reflects the strategic reallocation of resources to support evolving priorities and objectives.
FY2026 plans — current year Will investigate digital models of unmanned ground and aerial vehicle concepts suitable for use in combat simulations with the ability to represent future options (mobility, target recognition) for autonomous combat systems; design and develop representations of teams of unmanned ground and aerial systems for use in combat simulations; investigate representations of teams of unmanned systems within the framework for simulating their vulnerability/lethality characteristics and develop simulations of the degradation in each of the ballistic, electronic warfare (EW), and cyber threat vectors; investigate the vulnerability/lethality characteristics of the team of unmanned systems links within a…
FY2025 accomplishments Develop digital models that have the ability to represent the vulnerability and lethality characteristics of future science and technology options for autonomous combat systems with respect to mobility.
Vulnerability and Lethality Analysis Tools for Early Science and Technology▼ 100%
FY2025 actual—
FY2026 enacted$3.0M
FY2027 request—
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding decrease reflects the strategic reallocation of resources to support evolving priorities and objectives.
FY2026 plans — current year Will validate researched novel techniques and initial methodologies into a constructive combat simulation and determine overall analytic approach; validate initial analysis of a single autonomous system in the constructive combat simulation using the developed methodologies for vulnerability and lethality performance characteristics and synergistic effects in the kinetic, electromagnetic, and cyber domains; continue investigating novel autonomous systems and designing and developing vulnerability and lethality performance characteristics; investigate additional autonomous algorithms beyond mobility and determine feasibility of integration into constructive combat simulation
Project detail
What project DC6 buys
This project investigates and develops capabilities to understand and characterize emerging Science and Technology (S&T) technical pursuits and impacts through collaborative analytics that enable the assessment of autonomous systems-of-systems, their implications to the future threat environment, and analyzes their contributions to the Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) concept in relevant operational scenarios. This is a cross-cutting effort that supports S&T, analysis, and modeling and simulation (M&S) efforts associated with the development of autonomous systems and their application in military operations. Work in this project also funds research to investigate, develop, and validate tools, methodologies, and analytical techniques to extend experimental results, assure early consideration of technology and system vulnerabilities, reduce developmental risk, provide mission context, and improve the robustness of technology readiness assessments. Work in this project is performed by the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) and Data and Analysis Center (DAC).
FY2027 Request
$0.0M
▼ 100% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$4.3M
▲ 488% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$0.7M
Prior year
Army Applied Innovation — one RDT&E project inside PE 0602002A. Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, not on a project.
Project DC4 — Army Applied Innovation — requests — in FY2027. Year over year it falls 100% against FY2026.
Funding trajectory
Project DC4 funding, FY2025–FY2026
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
Actual Enacted
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.7 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 4.3 |
Inside the project
2 accomplishments / planned programs
The R-2A exhibit. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan — and they are descriptive: coverage is partial and they do not always add back to the project, so count them, never total them.
Army Applied Innovation▼ 100%
FY2025 actual$0.7M
FY2026 enacted$2.0M
FY2027 request—
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding decrease reflects the strategic reallocation of resources to support evolving priorities and objectives.
FY2026 plans — current year Will identify breakthrough and disruptive technologies, engage novel ideation & system-level integration at the initial phase of the scientific concepts and technology development; merge synergistic cross-cutting innovations that will lead to advance disruptive technological solutions to Army priorities that require an accelerated solution; identify and initiate development of emergent technologies, for integration in the science and technology program, to address challenges in future operating concepts, operational needs and Army identified priorities.
FY2025 accomplishments Innovation projects from the Army S&T Executing Commands will be approved by the Army Innovation Oversight Board in the budget year and year of execution based on priority and opportunity. Proposal topics will focus on mid-far term transformational technologies with a shift in focus to the design of the Army of 2040. Proposal will be informed by the Critical Technology Areas, Future Capabilities/Activities, and Army Senior Leader Priorities.
University Innovation Hub▼ 100%
FY2025 actual—
FY2026 enacted$2.2M
FY2027 request—
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding decrease reflects the strategic reallocation of resources to support evolving priorities and objectives.
FY2026 plans — current year Will mature research originating from university-led research efforts that have the potential for breakthrough or dual-use capability to enable significant improvements to advance military applications for weapon systems, materials, human-machine interface, ground and air vehicles, communications, logistics, or Soldier lethality; mature existing bases of research with cross cutting technologies and high potential for operational relevance to support Army Transformation; university technologies will be assessed in an Army ecosystem connecting efforts with appropriate stakeholders for further maturation.
Project detail
What project DC4 buys
This project funds the Applied Research portion of the Army Innovation Plan, the Army's investment strategy to rapidly accelerate innovative solutions to challenging Warfighter problems. This project will provide the Army with the most advanced and cutting-edge solutions and the ability to adapt and integrate multi-disciplinary innovative technologies. This project accelerates breakthrough and disruptive innovations based on assessing and seeding a solution with multi-disciplinary knowledge. It addresses ideation and system-level integration applied research and development leading to potential emerging technologies in areas of strategic importance to the Army. Through the Army's Innovation Oversight Board, the Army senior leadership approves the innovation projects in the budget year and year of execution based on priority and opportunity, ensuring that innovations have a high potential for filling capability gaps and transitioning to Army Science and Technology (S&T) projects to inform an optimal technology investment strategy and rapidly deliver capabilities to the soldier. This project is coordinated with Program Element (PE) 0603025A (Army Agile Innovation and Demonstration) / Project DA3 (Army Advanced Innovation). Work is performed by the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition Logistics and Technology, the Army S&T Executing Commands, and the Army Research Laboratory (ARL).