COUNTER SMALL UNMANNED AERIAL… (BLI 0219AD0500) · Army

What it is

COUNTER SMALL UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEM (C-SUAS) (0219AD0500) is an Army procurement line funded in the Other Procurement, Army account.

What changed

No FY25→26 comparison — endpoints unavailable or on different bases.

Who gets it

No company is linked to this line. Award records do not carry the program element, so the crosswalk is silent here — why.

Budget figures

FY24 Actuals

$628.1MP-1 TOA · PB2026

FY25 Enacted

$288.4MP-1 TOA · PB2026

FY26 Request

Not in the FY2026 J-books we ingested

FY25→26 Change

No comparison: endpoints unavailable or on different bases

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.

Data coverage

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

The program's 2 summary figures for FY24 to FY25, plotted in fiscal-year order: 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	$628.1M
FY25	$288.4M

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

4 fiscal years of this program as published (FY2022–FY2025): 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 falls 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
Actuals	$710.1M	$299.8M	$628.1M
Enacted	–	$299.8M	$365.4M	$288.4M
Request	–	–	$365.4M	$280.1M

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

Asked vs spent: the PB2024 book requested $365.4M for FY2024; the PB2026 book reported $628.1M as actual total obligation authority — $262.7M above the request. 628.1 − 365.4 = 262.7 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 — COUNTER SMALL UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEM (C-SUAS)

SSN AD0514 / DIRECTED ENERGY (DE) is a new start within the COUNTER SMALL UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEM (C-SUAS) program in FY 2026 This line has no funding for FY 2026. FY 2026 funding was realigned from Budget Activity (BA) 2, AD0500 COUNTER SMALL UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEM (C-SUAS) to BA 6, I24000 COUNTER-SMALL UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEM (C-SUAS) in support of Agile Portfolio Management. Advances in unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) technology and ease of accessibility increase the potential use of UAS as weapons and intelligence-gathering mechanisms against U.S. forces and Department of Defense (DoD) facilities. Funds support the procurement, training, and equipping of fixed, semi-fixed, mounted, dismounted, and handheld counter-UAS capabilities for U.S. forces and strategically-important DoD facilities worldwide. Planned counter-UAS capability procurements provide a layered defense construct against UAS threats and include a mix of electronic warfare capabilities, command and control, and kinetic and non-kinetic effectors. The Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-sUAS) system-of-systems was initiated in JUN 2016 in response to Joint Urgent Operational Need (JUON) CC-0558, to detect, track, classify, evaluate, and defeat Groups 1 and 2 UAS threats. On 19 NOV 2021, the Army Requirements Oversight Council approved C-sUAS Capability Development Document (CDD) Increment 1 for a C-sUAS capability at Operational Divisions (now C-UAS Batteries). On 1 FEB 2022, the Chief of Staff of the Army (CSA) accelerated C-sUAS procurement into FY 2022 (from FY 2023) and specified the systems and quantities for each battery. This CSA guidance was documented in a 2 FEB 2022 Department of the Army Military Operations Fires Division (DAMO-Fires) memorandum. In a 30 MAR 2022 Acquisition Decision Memorandum (ADM), the Army Acquisition Executive (AAE) authorized use of the Major Capability Acquisition (MCA) pathway for five separate Acquisition Category III programs: Fixed Site-Low, slow, small Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Integrated Defeat System (FS-LIDS); Mobile-Low, slow, small UAS Integrated Defeat System (M-LIDS); Ku-band Radio Frequency System (KuRFS) Family of Radars; Coyote Launchers/Interceptors; and Handheld/Dismounted Systems. Following an 8 MAY 2024 program initiation briefing to the Milestone Decision Authority, the C-sUAS programs were approved for entry into the MCA pathway at post-Full Rate Production (FRP). Enduring programs are required to develop, test, evaluate, and continuously integrate solutions, to address a rapidly-emerging UAS threat that continues to grow in sophistication, range, lethality, and numbers. Both Joint and Army RDTE will develop Joint and Army-unique solutions that will be procured under this budget line. Prior C-UAS procurement funding resides in line item 0173BZ0501 Indirect Fire Protection Family of Systems.

Justification

Justification — COUNTER SMALL UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEM (C-SUAS)

FY 2026 funding was realigned from Budget Activity (BA) 2, AD0500 COUNTER SMALL UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEM (C-SUAS) to BA 6, I24000 COUNTER-SMALL UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEM (C-SUAS) in support of Agile Portfolio Management: AD0511 C-SUAS FIXED transferred to I24013 C-SUAS FIXED SITE AD0512 C-SUAS OPERATIONAL transferred to I24014 C-SUAS OPERATIONS AD0513 C-SUAS GROUND READINESS transferred to I24015 C-SUAS GRND READINESS

Budget line items(workbook-cited)

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

Exhibit P-1

Account	Org	Type	Amount
Other Procurement, Army	A	FY24 Actuals	$628.1M
Other Procurement, Army	A	FY25 Enacted	$288.4M

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	$1.01B	$628.1M	$288.4M

Follow the dollar

No follow-the-dollar view — this program's awards haven't been crosswalked at high confidence (flows cover 312 of 1,938 programs). why coverage is partial? →

Awards

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

Lobbying mentions

Showing 25 of 74 from the Senate LDA disclosure database.

BAE SYSTEMS INCCOUNTER|UNMANNED2026matched 2+ title words

National Defense Authorization Act, 2027 (HR 8800/S 4784); provisions regarding R&D - Navy, US Marine Corps, Air…

COUNTER SMALL UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEM (C-SUAS)

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Description

Description — COUNTER SMALL UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEM (C-SUAS) source

Justification

Justification — COUNTER SMALL UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEM (C-SUAS) source

Budget line items(workbook-cited)

Budget Details(R-2/P-40 facts)

Follow the dollar

Awards

Lobbying mentions

Oversight

Program dossier

Primary sources

Budget totals · TOA sources

Detailed budget justification

Description — COUNTER SMALL UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEM (C-SUAS)

Justification — COUNTER SMALL UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEM (C-SUAS)