# Ground Autonomous Mobility Development

**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/a5  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605053A

## Summary

This activity requests $30.8M in FY2027, 16% of project FB3, up 3.4% 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 an Army decision on the production and fielding of Ground Autonomous Mobility solutions based on FY2026 demonstrations and Soldier feedback. Production-ization tasks will also occur. Continued software and hardware development to enable, or enhance, robotic autonomy across a spectrum of use cases, to include "non-primary road" environments (i.e. unmarked or unpaved, trails and other natural surfaces that may only include minimal evidence of prior vehicular traffic). Feedback from Soldiers will be managed through a Product Backlog, where prioritized mobility capabilities will continue to increase effectiveness within waypoint navigation, convoy behaviors, behaviors during loss of communications, and sentry functionality in operationally relevant domains.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is attributed to a better understanding of the prioritization and the development of new features based on Soldier feedback.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** FY 2026 RDTE supports the engineering and development of platform agnostic, autonomous mobility solutions. This encompasses the autonomous capabilities required for navigating platforms and performing missions with decreased user input. Funding will procure commercially available technology for integration onto Army platforms with demonstration of capability geared towards determining what hardening is necessary in terms of cyber/network/militarization to execute large scale production and fielding.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | Enacted | 29.8 |
| FY2027 | Request | 30.8 |

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