What project 2077 buys
Afloat Counter Unmanned Aerial Systems (C-UAS) was established to meet an urgent operational need and funds the acquisition, testing, integration, and fielding of prototype C-UAS's to provide a lower cost defense in-depth solution to negate the UAS threats. The FY 2026 budget for Afloat C-UAS (2077) included $39.407 million of discretionary and $200.000 million of mandatory funding for a total of $239.407 million. The $200.000 million mandatory funds enabled the acquisition of the prototype systems identified through the testing that occurred in FY 2024 and FY 2025. In FY 2026, the program continued developing and testing C-UAS systems to pace the evolving threat. Further information for this reconciliation request is provided in Section 20010 (Readiness) of the Reconciliation Exhibit. The FY 2027 request for C-UAS will fund fielding the systems acquired in FY 2026 and acquire systems to support two carrier strike groups consisting of four to five deploying ships and one expeditionary strike group consisting of three deploying ships in for fielding in FY 2027 and FY 2028.
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Project 2077 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 39.4 |
| FY2027 | Request | 228.4 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 225.6 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 225.5 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 234.5 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 239.0 |
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. Each describes FY2027 work in enough detail to have its own page; the rest are shown here in full. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
Acquire C-UAS systems to support fielding on two carrier strike groups consisting of four to five deploying ships each and one expeditionary strike group consisting of three deploying ships for fielding in FY 2027 and 2028. Fielding the C-UAS prototype systems that were acquired in FY 2026. C-UAS engineering support, development and…
Read the FY2027 plan →Named performers on project 2077
Performers named in the R-3 exhibit under this project. Share is of the project's whole FY2027 R-3 total — the same denominator the program-element split uses, so the two read on one scale and will not sum to 100% when unnamed or government work is in the mix. Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations.