# Project A5B — Unmanned Aircraft Systems Universal Products

**Program element:** 0605345A — Unmanned Aerial Systems Launched Effects Systems Development  
**Project:** A5B  
**Component:** U.S. Army  
**Appropriation:** 2040 — RDT&E, Army  
**Budget Activity:** 5 — System Development & Demonstration  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605345A/A5B  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605345A

## Summary

Project A5B — Unmanned Aircraft Systems Universal Products requests $31.3M in FY2027, 3.8% of the $816.4M requested for program element 0605345A, down 6.0% on FY2026. 1 R-2A activity decomposes the request.

**Markets:** Uncrewed & Autonomy — matched on the project title only, and no market size is quoted.

## Funding profile

| 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 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0605345A; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## 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.

**R-3 lines of work:** Management Services; Product Development; Test and Evaluation.

## Activities (R-2A) — 1

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uncrewed Vehicle Control (UVC) | — | 33.3 | 31.3 | −6% | [a0](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605345A/A5B/a0) |

> Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan. In the request year they partition this project exactly; in earlier years they can under-cover it.

### Uncrewed Vehicle Control (UVC)

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.

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605345A/A5B/a0

## What is NOT on this page

Congressional marks, the R-2 mission description and acquisition strategy, the industry vs government split of the whole request, and related program elements are recorded at **program-element** grain — an NDAA mark lands on a PE, never on a project. They are at https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605345A.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Army RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0605345A project A5B (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0605345A")`.

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