# Project 3241 — Counter Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-UAS)

**Program element:** 0604636N — Counter Unmanned Aircraft System (C-UAS)  
**Project:** 3241  
**Component:** U.S. Navy  
**Appropriation:** 1319 — RDT&E, Navy  
**Budget Activity:** 4 — Advanced Component Development & Prototypes  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604636N/3241  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604636N

## Summary

Project 3241 — Counter Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-UAS) requests $13.6M in FY2027, 65% of the $20.8M requested for program element 0604636N, up 192% on FY2026. 1 R-2A activity decomposes the request. NAWCAD is the largest named R-3 performer at $0.7M, 5.3% of the project's FY2027 R-3 total.

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

## Funding profile

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 1.6 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 4.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 13.6 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 14.0 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 14.2 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 14.4 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 14.7 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0604636N; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## What project 3241 buys

The Counter small Unmanned Aerial Systems (C-sUAS) Family of Systems (FoS) program was funded to provide initial material solutions to SECNAV-prioritized locations CONUS and OCONUS with baseline electronic warfare (EW) capabilities to detect, track, identify, and defeat sUAS over a large coverage area. Following initial material deployment, the program continues to expand the capabilities of select, high priority systems and adapt new solutions to defeat evolving threats. The initial material solution included CORIAN, Ninja, DroneDefender, and DroneBuster. Expanded solutions include EO/IR, radar, C2, new EW detect/defeat capabilities, alternative sensors, and additional kinetic and non-kinetic mitigations needed to prepare, maintain, and upkeep force protection, self-defense and operational capabilities against the ever-evolving sUAS threat. Funding is provided to protect high-value and/or critical Navy assets and support public safety against threats by inadvertent or unlawful misuse of sUAS. FY27 increase will provide system assessments, intra-service technology capitalization, and refinement of open architecture solutions and interoperability standards of fixed facility Navy Sites with joint C-UxS systems and with C-UxsS syetms on Navy Ships. Funding also provides for government engineering support for the technology development and acquisition strategy for fielding material solutions that will help C-Uxs systems to evolve to rapidly evolving UAS capabilities.

**R-3 lines of work:** Product Development; Support; Management Services.

## Named R-3 performers

| Performer | $M | Share of this project's FY2027 R-3 total |
|---|---|---|
| NAWCAD | 0.7 | 5.3% |

> Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations. Shares need not reach 100% — unnamed and government work is in the denominator.

## Activities (R-2A) — 1

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C-UAS System Development and Integration | 1.6 | 4.7 | 13.6 | +192% | [a0](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604636N/3241/a0) |

> 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-UAS System Development and Integration

Navy Shore C-UxS systems need to continue to evolve due to the rapidly evolving UAS capability, to reduce operator burden, and to increase interoperability of fixed facility Navy sites with joint C-UxS systems and with C-UxS systems on Navy ships.

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604636N/3241/a0

## 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/0604636N.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Navy RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0604636N project 3241 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0604636N")`.

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