# C-sUAS Deny and Defeat Tech

**R-2A activity** of project A31 — Counter Small Unmanned Aircraft Sys (C-sUAS) Tech  
**Program element:** 0602135A — Counter Small Unmanned Aerial Systems (C-SUAS) Applied Research  
**Component:** U.S. Army · **Budget Activity:** 2  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602135A/A31/a1  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602135A

> **NEW START.** $26.5M requested in FY2027 with no prior-year and no current-year funding.

## Summary

This activity requests $26.5M in FY2027, 100% of project A31 — a new start with no prior-year and no current-year money. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2027 planned work.** C-sUAS Deny and Defeat Tech: Extended Range C-sUAS (XRC) will optimize novel propulsion concepts for extended range C-sUAS efforts through component evaluation and test data analysis; mature modeling and simulation technology for independent performance prediction and evaluation capabilities; continue development of seeker technology to meet long range missile intercept requirements and small form factor constraints; High Volume C-sUAS (HVC) will investigate critical component technology designs to address low cost, deep magazine, small form factor C-sUAS missile systems; Assess technology readiness of low size weight and power (SWAP) industry components (guidance and electronics, controls, and warhead); develop technology maturation plans for relevant industry offerings for high volume C-sUAS efforts requiring further development; develop high volume modeling and simulation environment for industry effector assessment; work with industry to mature small form factor seeker designs accounting for relevant flight conditions AUGUR Shield: Counter-Frequency: Will mature Augur Shield hardware for implementation and assessment of developed artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) algorithms in outdoor conditions; examine options for form factor reduction; modify state of the art (SOA) algorithm implementations to increase compute efficiency; optimize AI/ML techniques for spectrum segmentation, anomaly detection, and signal characterization at the edge on low-size, weight, and power (SWaP) compute hardware through quantization aware training and model pruning; investigate methods for enabling intelligent software agents on-platform autonomous system reasoning components to interpret multimodal sensor feeds for AI-enabled signal segmentation, threat detection, and sensor fusion; train custom foundation models for automated identification of adversarial intent from minimal signature footprint and counter-UAS behavioral analysis; experiment with passive-radio frequency (RF) detection of counter-UAS at operationally relevant environments such as the Combat Training Centers and Southern Border.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Funding increase reflects realignment within this project for technology supporting C-sUAS high volume capability focused on increased magazine depth and strategic reallocation of resources to support evolving priorities and objectives. Funding increase also supports the development of a low-cost wide band RF spectrum sensor and RF environment anomaly detection scheme to detect UAS.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2027 | Request | 26.5 |

> Prior, current and budget year only — an R-2A activity carries no five-year plan. It sums exactly into its project in the request year and not necessarily in any other.

## Other activities in project A31

- Extended Range C-sUAS (XRC) Tech — FY2027 —

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Army RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0602135A project A31 (PB PB2027). Narrative is the government's own text.
- **No marks, no contractors at this grain** — congressional marks land on the program element and R-3 performers on the project.
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_activity`.

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