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MQ-1 PAYLOAD
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Budget figures
No FY2026 R-1/P-1 request line for this program element. The FY2026 President's Budget request workbook carries no FY2026 line for it; its last workbook figure is FY2025. An absent line is not by itself an ending — PB2026 renumbered program elements at scale across the services and defense agencies, so this work may continue under a different number. No successor is linked for this line: this site's program-lineage layer holds no keyed edge pointing forward from here. That is an absence in this site's lineage layer, not a finding about the program: if the J-book narrative on this page describes a realignment, it is quoted below in the document's own words, and this note does not restate it.
FY2026 award data is a partial year — USAspending reports awards on a rolling basis, and this corpus runs through 2026-09-04. why partial FY2026 data? →
Budget trajectory
| Fiscal year | Amount |
|---|---|
| FY24 | $13.7M |
| FY25 | $14.1M |
All series figures: P-1 TOA · PB2026
Decade view
P-1/R-1 workbook TOA basis, shown compact in $B/$M (the workbook records USD thousands); each figure cites its own President's Budget edition
The vertical scale does not start at zero: the baseline sits just below this program’s smallest year, so a low point on this line is not a small amount. Read the shape for direction and the grid below for the figures.
● actuals (line) · ○ enacted · ◇ request — gaps are editions the program is absent from, never interpolated.
| Series | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actuals | $0 | $72.7M | $13.7M | |
| Enacted | – | $72.7M | $13.7M | $14.1M |
| Request | – | – | $13.7M | $14.1M |
blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.
Program lineage
No predecessor/successor lineage was recorded for this program element — no FY-to-FY transfer into or out of this line was stated in the ingested J-books, and none was inferred from the program structure.
Description
Description — MQ-1 PAYLOAD
The MQ-1 Payload (A01001) budget line supports procurement of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) payload systems for Divisions and Echelons Above Division Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). Funding in this budget line supports a Sensor Centric approach for sensors onboard the Gray Eagle MQ-1C UAS. Funding in this budget line also supports, but is not limited to, emerging UAS sensor requirements such as Electro Optic/Infrared/Laser Designator (EO/IR/LD), Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), Hyper Spectral Imagery (HSI), and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). The Common Sensor Payload (CSP) is an EO/IR/LD sensor that provides an advanced state-of-the-art sensor suite that can be used to collect critical information across the visible and infrared portions of the electromagnetic spectrum for Battlefield Commanders. The CSP is required for MQ-1C Gray Eagle (GE) Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) operation and serves as the "eyes" of the UAS by providing high-definition imagery in day or night conditions for detection and classification of targets/threats. The CSP also provides a targeting capability for laser-guided munitions, to include air-to-ground AGM-114 Hellfire missiles. The Target Location Accuracy (TLA) capability inherent to CSP Version 3 (v3) enables precision, near-real time engagements with Coordinate Seeking Weapons (CSWs) by reducing the sensor-to-shooter process from minutes to seconds. Electronics Intelligence (ELINT) and Electronic Support Measures (ESM) capabilities provide high precision direction finding and geolocation with 360-degree instantaneous field of view coverage from the nose, tail, port, and starboard sides of the UAS. FY 2026 funding was transferred from Budget Activity (BA) 2, A01001 MQ-1 PAYLOAD to BA 6, I48000 FUTURE UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS (UAS) FAMILY in support of Agile Portfolio Management.
Justification
Justification — MQ-1 PAYLOAD
FY 2026 funding was transferred from Budget Activity (BA) 2, A01001 MQ-1 PAYLOAD to BA 6, I48000 FUTURE UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS (UAS) FAMILY in support of Agile Portfolio Management. All Quantities are for the Active component. In accordance with section 1815 of the FY 2008 National Defense Authorization Act (P.L. 110 - 181), this item is necessary for use by the active and reserve components of the Armed Forces for homeland defense missions, domestic emergency responses, and providing military support to civil authorities.
Budget line items(workbook-cited)
P-1/R-1 workbook Total Obligation Authority basis (USD thousands) · PB2026.
Exhibit P-1
| Account | Org | Type | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aircraft Procurement, Army | A | FY24 Actuals | $13.7M |
| Aircraft Procurement, Army | A | FY25 Enacted | $14.1M |
Budget Details(R-2/P-40 facts)
J-book detail basis (R-2/P-40, USD millions) · PB2026 — a different accounting basis from the P-1/R-1 workbook TOA above; where the two disagree, the reconciliation strip under Budget figures shows both.
Wider than this screen — swipe the table sideways for the remaining fiscal-year columns.
| Project | All Prior Years | FY24 Actuals | FY25 Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Program Element | $321.3M | $13.7M | $14.1M |
Follow the dollar
Appropriation → program element → top high-confidence awards → recipient families → congressional districts.
Follow-the-dollar covers 312 of 1,938 programs — only high-confidence budget→award links are shown. why coverage is partial? →
The diagram illustrates the cited table below — amounts shown in the diagram are transaction sums per award (no citation chips); the per-district obligations in the table cite USAspending queries.
| District | Program obligations |
|---|---|
| TX-03 | $39.6M |
Related awards
Award linkage is shown for 32 of 200 profiled companies — high- and medium-confidence USAspending matches, each row labeled; medium is the weaker evidence. why partial award coverage? →
| Recipient | PIID | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
| RAYTHEON COMPANY | N0016418CJQ40 | high |
| RAYTHEON COMPANY | W56KGY15D0005 | high |
Contractor concentration
No concentration index is published for this line. This line's high-confidence links do not clear the floor for a published concentration index — at least 3 awards across 2 contractor families holding positive obligations, with positive net linked dollars. An index below that floor is a fact about the sample, not about the market. Whatever further links this line carries are medium-confidence, and what each medium evidence path does and does not establish is set out in the methodology. Both bases are in the downloadable warehouse.
Lobbying mentions
No Senate LDA lobbying filing in the tracked data mentions this program element by code or alias.
Oversight
Department-level designation (not specific to this program)
GAO lists 5 high-risk areas for DOD as a whole. That designation covers the department, not MQ-1 PAYLOAD. No program-specific GAO finding for this line is in the ingested data. See the DOD oversight record.
Program dossier
No research dossier for this program — dossiers cover 50 of 1,938 programs, the largest fully J-book-detailed lines by FY2026 requested dollars. why no dossier here? →
Primary sources
Open any budget figure for its exact receipt. Verified line items lead with the highlighted government PDF; original spreadsheets download with their budget edition and exhibit in the filename.
Budget totals · TOA sources
FY2026 Department of Defense Budget: Procurement Programs (P-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit P-1 · O24
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2026_DoD_P-1_Procurement.xlsx.
FY2024 Department of Defense Budget: Procurement Programs (P-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit P-1 · O27
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2024_DoD_P-1_Procurement.xlsx.
FY2025 Department of Defense Budget: Procurement Programs (P-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit P-1 · O24
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2025_DoD_P-1_Procurement.xlsx.
Detailed budget justification
The related TOA spreadsheets above use a different accounting basis from R-2/P-40 detail. Their amounts are not assumed to match these detailed sources.
Aircraft Procurement Army · www.asafm.army.mil
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