Armed Overwatch/Targeting

SOCOMProcurementPartial Reconciliation0201ARMOWT

What it is

Armed Overwatch/Targeting (0201ARMOWT) is a SOCOM procurement line funded in the Procurement, Defense-Wide account.

What changed

-$156.5M FY25→26 P-1 TOA · PB2026

Who gets it

No award linkage at high confidence.

Budget Figures

FY24 Actuals

$264.7MP-1 TOA · PB2026

FY25 Enacted

$313.1MP-1 TOA · PB2026

FY26 Request

$156.6MP-1 TOA · PB2026

FY25→26 Change

-$156.5MP-1 TOA · PB2026

FY2026 award data is a partial year — USASpending awards are reported on a rolling basis and the fiscal year does not close until September 30. why partial FY2026 data? →

Budget Trajectory

The program's 3 summary figures for FY24 to FY26, plotted in fiscal-year order so the direction of travel is readable at a glance: this line ends lower than it starts. The points are the summary cards above, not a separate derivation; the table beside the chart carries each figure with its own citation.

Budget trajectory: one row per fiscal year, carrying the summary figure the sparkline plots. Every figure opens its own citation.
Fiscal year	Amount
FY24	$264.7M
FY25	$313.1M
FY26	$156.6M

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

5 fiscal years of this program as published (FY2022–FY2026): a line through the actuals (filled dots), with the enacted (hollow circles) and request (diamonds) markers each edition reported. Read it for direction, not for precision — this program's actuals line rises across the span. The grid below is the same data as text, one cited figure per cell.

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.

Decade series values by fiscal year and President's Budget edition: one row per series (actuals, enacted, request), one column per fiscal year. Every figure opens its own citation.
Series	FY22	FY23	FY24	FY25	FY26
Actuals	$166.0M	$246.0M	$264.7M
Enacted	–	$246.0M	$266.8M	$313.1M
Request	–	–	$266.8M	$335.5M	$156.6M

blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.

Asked vs spent: the PB2024 book requested $266.8M for FY2024; the PB2026 book reported $264.7M as actual total obligation authority — $2.16M below the request. 264.69 − 266.85 = -2.16 USD millions — the compact figures above are rounded for reading.

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 — Armed Overwatch/Targeting

Armed Overwatch, Program Number 814, provides Special Operations Forces (SOF) with a deployable, affordable, and sustainable crewed aircraft systems capable of executing Close Air Support (CAS), precision strike, and armed reconnaissance requirements in austere and permissive environments for use in Irregular Warfare. The Milestone Decision Authority (MDA), the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) Acquisition Executive, approved entry into Low-Rate Initial Production in 4th QTR FY 2022. The Armed Overwatch program is projected to enter Full Rate Production in 3rd QTR FY 2027. The Armed Overwatch program will procure 6 SO-peculiar OA-1K aircraft in FY 2026.

Justification

Justification — Armed Overwatch/Targeting

FY 2026 BASE PROGRAM JUSTIFICATION: Funds the procurement and fielding of six OA-1K Armed Overwatch aircraft, initial spares, systems engineering/program management, support equipment, one weapon system trainer, mission planning systems, and other government costs. FY 2025 to FY 2026 decrease of $156.394 million is due to the planned reduction in aircraft procured from 12 to 6.

Budget Line Items(workbook-cited)

P-1/R-1 workbook Total Obligation Authority basis (USD thousands) · PB2026.

Exhibit P-1

Account	Org	Type	Amount
Procurement, Defense-Wide	SOCOM	FY24 Actuals	$264.7M
Procurement, Defense-Wide	SOCOM	FY25 Enacted	$313.1M
Procurement, Defense-Wide	SOCOM	FY26 Disc. Request	$156.6M
Procurement, Defense-Wide	SOCOM	FY26 Total	$156.6M

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	FY26 Base	FY26 Request
Program Element	$433.0M	$264.7M	$313.1M	$156.6M	$156.6M

No follow-the-dollar view — this program's awards haven't been crosswalked at high confidence (flows cover 17 of 1,741 programs). why coverage is partial? →

Awards

No awards are linked to this program element at high confidence — the budget→award crosswalk only asserts links it can defend, and this line has none yet.

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 Armed Overwatch/Targeting — no program-specific GAO finding for this line is in the ingested data. See the DOD oversight record.

No research dossier for this program — dossiers cover 50 of 1,741 programs, the largest fully J-book-detailed lines by FY2026 requested dollars. why no dossier here? →