# Unmanned Robotics Development - Sustainment 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/a3  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605053A

## Summary

This activity requests $34.9M in FY2027, 18% of project FB3, up 30% 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 the engineering and development for robotics that will support sustainment formations resupply operations with the following capabilities: power offload (exportable power and energy recharge), automated loading/unloading, universal ports for charging equipment, and standardized docking mechanisms to attach multi-mission modular capsules to the platform.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to increased activity associated with initiating Soldier Evaluation in FY 2027.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** FY 2026 RDTE funds support engineering and development to autonomously distribute essential power, resupply units with multiple classes of supply via unmanned missions and evacuate casualties in contested environments beyond the Brigade Support Area (BSA). Developing an autonomous resupply solution is essential to enhancing efficiency, improving battlefield agility, and sustaining combat effectiveness in dynamic operational environments.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | Enacted | 26.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 34.9 |

> 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 - Engineer Formations](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605053A/FB3/a2) — FY2027 34.5
- [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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