What project CQ5 buys
Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-sUAS) efforts will demonstrate and support 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 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 systems must be deployed.
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Project CQ5 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.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 37.4 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 24.1 |
1 accomplishment / planned program
The R-2A exhibit — the only level of the budget that describes work that has not happened yet. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only, no five-year plan. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
FY2026 to FY2027 change FY 2027 decrease reflects the transfer of funding to RDT&E, Defense-Wide PE 0205401JCA/Counter-Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (JIATF-401).
FY2026 plans — current year Continue the prototype development of joint capabilities to address capability gaps in threat sUAS detection, identification, tracking, and defeat, and enhance command and control systems. Continue development, testing, and support for Collaborative Framework Environment, Command and Control Decision Aids [Family of Counter Unmanned Aircraft Systems (FoCUS) Machine Agent Evolution 2], and Joint Electronic Warfare (Joint Common Multi-mission Electronic Warfare, NinjaNet). Continue development of Advanced Kinetic Defeat - Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System Dual Mode project to increase warfighters' abilities to rapidly defeat Group 1-3 sUAS. Funds will be spent across all 4 quarters…
FY2025 accomplishments Continue the prototype development of joint capabilities to address capability gaps in threat sUAS detection, identification, tracking, and defeat, and enhance command and control systems. New efforts in development under Advanced Kinetic Defeat for the Next Generation C-sUAS Missile and Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System - Dual mode. Development and support under Collaborative Framework Environment, Command and Control Decision Aids [Command and Control Automation-Autonomy, and Human Machine Teaming, Family of Counter Unmanned Aircraft Systems (FoCUS) Machine Agent Evolution 2], and Joint Common Electronic Warfare (Joint Common Multi-mission Electronic Warfare, NinjaNet).