# Unmanned Robotics Development - Engineer Formations

**R-2A activity** of project FB3 — Robotics Architecture  
**Program element:** 0605053A — Ground Robotics  
**Component:** U.S. Army · **Budget Activity:** 5  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605053A/FB3/a2  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605053A

## Summary

This activity requests $34.5M in FY2027, 18% of project FB3, down 11% on FY2026. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2026–FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2027 planned work.** Funding supports robotics engineering formations with aggressive prototyping efforts. Platforms will conduct overwatch, suppress threats, obscure breaches, and detect, neutralize, and proof enemy obstacles. Cleared lanes will be marked digitally and physically to enhance mobility in a multidomain environment. FY 2027 funds will procure prototypes and execute Solider Evaluation.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Decrease from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to transition from prototype hardware procurement in FY 2026 to Soldier Evaluation in FY 2027.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** FY 2026 RDTE supports the engineering and development for robotics engineering formations with aggressive prototyping efforts. Platforms will be able to suppress the enemy in multidomain environments, create visual and sensor interference using multiple methods, secure the breach site, reduce obstacles, provide protection, and seize key terrain from enemy forces.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | Enacted | 38.6 |
| FY2027 | Request | 34.5 |

> 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 FB3

- [Unmanned Robotics Development - Sustainment Formations](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605053A/FB3/a3) — FY2027 34.9
- [Ground Autonomous Mobility Development](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605053A/FB3/a5) — FY2027 30.8
- [Unmanned Robotics Development - System Control and Software Interoperability](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605053A/FB3/a4) — FY2027 30.2
- [Modular Mission Payload (MMP) Integration](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605053A/FB3/a6) — FY2027 22.6
- [Unmanned Robotics Development - Multi-Mission Robots](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605053A/FB3/a1) — FY2027 21.7
- [Government Program Management](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605053A/FB3/a7) — FY2027 17.6
- Robotics Architecture — FY2027 —

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Army RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0605053A project FB3 (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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