What project A5B buys
Uncrewed Vehicle Control (UVC) Scalable Control Interface (SCI) is a permissions-based software control suite used by Soldiers to simultaneously control multiple, disparate types of uncrewed or optionally-manned aircraft and payloads through a universal interface with scalable levels of authority. SCI distributes UAS capabilities by greatly enabling more control devices available to Soldiers, Commanders, and Battle Staff. SCI provides simultaneous employment of multiple aircraft/payloads from a single control node. SCI leverages a Modular Open System Approach (MOSA) to software in order to reduce time and cost to integrate new hardware and software in response to the dynamic future operating environment. Deployment of SCI includes devices in the Mobile/Handheld Computing Environment (such as Nett Warrior), Mounted Computing Environment such as Mounted Family of Computer Systems (MFoCS), Command Post Computing Environment such as Tactical Services Infrastructure (TSI), fixed wing aircraft, and rotary wing aircraft. SCI will integrate decision aiding, autonomy, and artificial intelligence improvements as they technically mature, in order to support Multi-Domain Operations and reduce cognitive workload. Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 UAS (RDT&E) funding supports Test and Evaluation efforts for SUAS and software development and system integration of Long Range Reconnaissance (LRR) and Launched Effects.
- Management Services
- Product Development
- Test and Evaluation
Project A5B funding, FY2026–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) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | Enacted | 33.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 31.3 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 28.1 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 28.4 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 28.6 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 28.8 |
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.
Funding enhances the UVC software by adding new features, enabling control of additional types of aircraft, and maturing common control hosts, including manned aircraft and other mission command platforms and integrates additional Small UAS aircraft and Launched Effects variants.
Read the FY2027 plan →