Project CQ8
$0.7MFY2027 request ▼ 87%C-sUAS Joint Enabling Capabilities
FY2025 actual$6.1M
FY2026 enacted$5.3M
FY2027 request$0.7M
Product DevelopmentTest and Evaluation
FY2027 Request
$0.7M
▼ 99% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$54.1M
▼ 5.8% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$57.4M
Prior year
Roll-up of 2 projects. Projects are the summable leaves — the PE total is their sum, never added to it.
For fiscal year 2027, the U.S. Army is requesting $0.7M for Counter - Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Sys Dev & Demonstration under RDT&E program element 0605531A, down 99% from FY2026.
Funding trajectory
Funding profile, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 57.4 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 54.1 |
| FY2027 | Request | 0.7 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 0.8 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 0.6 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 0.7 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 0.7 |
Where it sits
Acquisition lifecycle
This program is funded in RDT&E Budget Activity 5 — System Development & Demonstration.
Complete
Research
BA 1–2
Complete
Advanced Technology
BA 3
Complete
Prototyping
BA 4
Current
Development & Fielding
BA 5–7
Inside the program element
2 projects roll up into PE 0605531A
Projects are the summable leaves — the PE total is their sum, never added to it. Program elements and projects carry the full five-year plan; activities stop at the budget year. This PE moves -99% overall, which can hide much larger swings below.
Project CQ7
—FY2027 request ▼ 100%C-sUAS Joint New Capabilities
FY2025 actual$51.3M
FY2026 enacted$48.8M
FY2027 request—
Product DevelopmentTest and Evaluation
Congressional action
Congressional marks
Committee marks on the FY2027 request. Adds and cuts are reconciled in conference before they become law.
RequestPresident's Budget
$0.7M
House NDAA (HASC)HASC
$0.7M full · +$0
Senate NDAA (SASC)SASC
$0.7M full · +$0
House Approps (HAC-D)HAC_D
$0.7M full · +$0
unresolved as of 2026-07-27. These are FY2027 authorization marks (NDAA); appropriations and the conference agreement may differ.
Who's building it
Where the FY2027 request goes
Performers named in the R-3 exhibit, resolved into industry, government-lab, and unspecified shares. Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations.
Military Services
$0.7M · 100%
| Where FY2027 funding flows | Share | $M |
|---|---|---|
| Industry primes | 100% | 0.7 |
| FY2027 request | 100% | 0.7 |
Program detail
Mission & acquisition strategy
The Secretary of War (SecWar) designated the Secretary of the Army (SA) as the Department of War's (DoW) Executive Agent (EA) for Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-sUAS). The EA is tasked with leading, directing, and synchronizing DoW efforts to counter small Unmanned Aircraft System (sUAS) threats while minimizing unnecessary duplication and redundancy. The C-sUAS System Development and Demonstration efforts are in response to DoW Joint Requirements Oversight Council Memorandums (JROC-M) requirements for identification, development, testing, evaluation, and integration of technologies to defeat sUAS threats across the DoW.
In August 2025, the SECWAR established the Joint Interagency Task Force 401 (JIATF 401) as the Department of War (DoW) lead organization to counter small Unmanned Aerial Systems (C-sUAS). JIATF 401 synchronizes C-UAS efforts across the DoW to rapidly deliver joint capabilities at scale to defend the homeland, protect US and allied forces, defend critical infrastructure, and assist federal agencies. The task force has a global focus and is a multifaceted organization leading DoW C-sUAS activities at the nexus of OSW, the Joint Staff, Combatant Commands, and the Services. The JIATF 401 is innovative, scalable, and threat adaptive.
Project CQ8, CQ7 — C-sUAS Joint Enabling Capabilities
- Product Development
- Test and Evaluation
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FY2027 Department of the Army RDT&E Budget Justification · Exhibits R-2 / R-3 · PE 0605531A (President's Budget PB2027) — and FY2027 NDAA committee marks, as tracked 2026-07-27.
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/programs/0605531A.md · MCP mcp.hitchintel.com → budget_get_program_element, budget_get_cong_marksFY2027 Request
$0.7M
▼ 87% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$5.3M
▼ 13% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$6.1M
Prior year
C-sUAS Joint Enabling Capabilities — one RDT&E project inside PE 0605531A. Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, not on a project.
Project CQ8 — C-sUAS Joint Enabling Capabilities — requests $0.7M in FY2027, 100% of the $0.7M requested for program element 0605531A. Year over year it falls 87% against FY2026.
Funding trajectory
Project CQ8 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 6.1 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 5.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 0.7 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 0.8 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 0.6 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 0.7 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 0.7 |
Inside the project
2 accomplishments / planned programs
The R-2A exhibit. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan — and they are descriptive: coverage is partial and they do not always add back to the project, so count them, never total them.
Common Data Repository Development
FY2025 actual$4.3M
FY2026 enacted—
FY2027 request—
FY2025 accomplishments Continue the development of a Common Data Repository for centralized management of emerging sUAS threat profiles and the recommended software-based detect, track, identify, and defeat techniques based on advanced analytics. Develop the MEDUSA C2 system into the Joint Virtual Reality Trainer environment for employment at the Joint Counter-sUAS University.
JIATF 401 Activity▼ 87%
FY2025 actual$1.8M
FY2026 enacted$5.3M
FY2027 request$0.7M
FY2027 planned work Funding will support acceleration of the C-sUAS kill chain. Funding will continue to resource an agile, system-agnostic "lab-to-field" pipeline, enabling rapid operational assessments and the development of a layered defeat portfolio to ensure tactical overmatch and asset protection.
FY2026 to FY2027 change FY 2027 funding decrease due to transfer of funding to JIATF 401 PE 0205401JCA / Counter - Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems in 0400: Research, Development, Test & Evaluation, Defense-Wide / BA 5: System Development & Demonstration (SDD).
FY2026 plans — current year Funds will support integration and deployment of Drone Hunter into C2 systems at critical sites as well as operational assessments of C-sUAS capabilities.
Who's building it
Named performers on project CQ8
Performers named in the R-3 exhibit under this project. Share is of the project's whole FY2027 R-3 total — the same denominator the program-element split uses, so the two read on one scale and will not sum to 100% when unnamed or government work is in the mix. Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations.
Military Services
$0.7M · 100%
Project detail
What project CQ8 buys
The Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-sUAS) Joint New Enabling Capabilities effort is in response to the Joint Requirements Oversight Council Memorandums (JROC-M) to support identification, development, testing, evaluation, and integration of technologies to provide capability to defeat small Unmanned Aircraft System threats across the DoW. Joint Enabling Capabilities efforts provide warfighters the ability to comprehensively detect, track, identify, and defeat enemy Group 1, 2 and 3 UAS platforms. The efforts will provide integrated solutions to meet the needs of the Military Services and DoW Agencies against emerging sUAS threats.
R-3 lines of work
- Product Development
- Test and Evaluation
FY2027 Request
$0.0M
▼ 100% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$48.8M
▼ 4.9% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$51.3M
Prior year
C-sUAS Joint New Capabilities — one RDT&E project inside PE 0605531A. Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, not on a project.
Project CQ7 — C-sUAS Joint New Capabilities — requests — in FY2027, 0.0% of the $0.7M requested for program element 0605531A. Year over year it falls 100% against FY2026.
Funding trajectory
Project CQ7 funding, FY2025–FY2026
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
Actual Enacted
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 51.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 48.8 |
Inside the project
3 accomplishments / planned programs
The R-2A exhibit. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan — and they are descriptive: coverage is partial and they do not always add back to the project, so count them, never total them. Opening lines only here — the full year-by-year narrative is on the project page.
Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft Development Defeat▼ 100%
FY2025 actual$26.8M
FY2026 enacted$15.0M
FY2027 request—
Continue the system development, integration, and test of new technologies to defeat sUAS to inform systems transition. Within Advanced Kinetic Defeat, develop advanced sensor package that assists in higher defeat efficacy against Group 3 sUAS and major component integration and early demonstration test events for Advanced Kinetic…
Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft Development Command and Control
FY2025 actual$9.2M
FY2026 enacted—
FY2027 request—
Continue the development, integration and test of new technologies to reduce operator burden, increase situational awareness, automate/autonomy for decision making, and improve interoperability of C-sUAS systems. Advanced command and control adds new capabilities integration to the current joint Forward Area Air Defense Command and…
JIATF 401 Activity▼ 100%
FY2025 actual$15.3M
FY2026 enacted$33.8M
FY2027 request—
JIATF 401 will fund Operational Assessments of C-sUAS capabilities in support of Joint Task Force Southern Border, NORTHCOM and INDOPACOM.
Project detail
What project CQ7 buys
The Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-sUAS) Joint New Capabilities effort develops new technologies and materiel solutions to enable the military services and joint force to counter Groups 1-3 sUAS threats. These developments are aligned with Joint Requirements Oversight Council Memorandum (JROCM) 058-23 operational requirements. Joint solutions will address fixed site / semi-fixed site, mobile, and dismounted systems. Efforts include development, test and evaluation, and integration sufficient for transition to fieldable capabilities.
R-3 lines of work
- Product Development
- Test and Evaluation