# Project CQ5 — C-sUAS Joint New Capabilities Development

**Program element:** 0604531A — Counter - Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Advanced Development  
**Project:** CQ5  
**Component:** U.S. Army  
**Appropriation:** 2040 — RDT&E, Army  
**Budget Activity:** 4 — Advanced Component Development & Prototypes  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604531A/CQ5  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604531A

## Summary

Project CQ5 — C-sUAS Joint New Capabilities Development requests — in FY2027, down 100% on FY2026. 1 R-2A activity decomposes the request.

**Markets:** Counter-UAS — matched on the project title only, and no market size is quoted.

## Funding profile

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 37.4 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 24.1 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0604531A; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## 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.

**R-3 lines of work:** Product Development.

## Activities (R-2A) — 1

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C-sUAS Prototyping New Joint Capabilities | 37.4 | 24.1 | — | −100% | — |

> Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan. In the request year they partition this project exactly; in earlier years they can under-cover it.

### C-sUAS Prototyping New Joint Capabilities

**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 according to funds availability, a balance of competing JIATF 401 priorities and emerging trends, as well as development partners' need for funding actions to include contract awards.

**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).

## What is NOT on this page

Congressional marks, the R-2 mission description and acquisition strategy, the industry vs government split of the whole request, and related program elements are recorded at **program-element** grain — an NDAA mark lands on a PE, never on a project. They are at https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604531A.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Army RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0604531A project CQ5 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0604531A")`.

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