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Army Agile Innovation and Development-Applied Research
Budget figures
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 | $964.0K |
| FY25 | $1.00M |
| FY26 | $9.46M |
All series figures: R-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 | FY21 | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actuals | $0 | $0 | $127.0K | $964.0K | ||
| Enacted | – | $0 | $1.00M | $5.61M | $1.00M | |
| Request | – | – | $9.53M | $5.61M | $8.03M | $9.46M |
blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.
Asked vs spent: the PB2023 book requested $9.53M for FY2023; the PB2025 book reported $127.0K as actual total obligation authority — $9.41M below the request. 0.1 − 9.5 = -9.4 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
Mission — Army Agile Innovation and Development-Applied Research
This Program Element (PE) funds the Army's goal of assessing and seeding innovative research solutions to achieve future force modernization. Critical technologies that allow for technological superiority are increasingly dual-use or developed in academia-led partnerships that leverage cutting edge innovation. Cross-cutting modernization initiatives leverage strategic partnerships and foster an environment to bring knowledge and expertise to demonstrate breakthrough and innovative technologies that will benefit the warfighter. These collaborations bring new ways of doing business to assess and evaluate emerging technologies with high payoff potential to address current technology shortfalls. Leveraging other innovative mechanisms, to include accelerators, incubators, and other technology accelerants, to enhance innovation is part of the overall innovation strategy. Innovation includes not only hardware and physical products but also software, software development, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning; all are stand-alone initiatives that are part of broader innovation to programs and technology development. Through the Army's Innovation Oversight Board, Army senior leadership approves innovation projects in the budget year and year of execution based on priority and opportunity, ensuring that innovations have a high potential for filling capability gaps and transitioning to Army Science and Technology (S&T) projects to inform an optimal technology investment strategy and rapidly deliver capabilities to the soldier. Work is performed by the United States Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM), Army Artificial Intelligence Integration Center (AI2C), the Engineering Research and Development Center, Space and Missile Defense Technical Center, and the United States Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences. The FY 2026 request was reduced by $0.078 million for Advisory and Assistance Services to promote efficiencies and advance the policies of the Administration in alignment with Executive Order 14222, "Implementing the President's Department of Government Efficiency Cost Efficiency Initiative." The FY 2026 request was reduced by $0.029 million for civilian personnel to optimize the workforce in compliance with Executive Order 14210, "Implementing the President's Department of Government Efficiency Workforce Optimization Initiative."
Mission — Army Applied Innovation
This project funds the Applied Research portion of the Army Innovation Plan, the Army's investment strategy to rapidly accelerate innovative solutions to challenging Warfighter problems. This project will provide the Army with the most advanced and cutting-edge solutions and the ability to adapt and integrate multi-disciplinary innovative technologies. This project accelerates breakthrough and disruptive innovations based on assessing and seeding a solution with multi-disciplinary knowledge. It addresses ideation and system-level integration applied research and development leading to potential emerging technologies in areas of strategic importance to the Army. Through the Army's Innovation Oversight Board, the Army senior leadership approves the innovation projects in the budget year and year of execution based on priority and opportunity, ensuring that innovations have a high potential for filling capability gaps and transitioning to Army Science and Technology (S&T) projects to inform an optimal technology investment strategy and rapidly deliver capabilities to the soldier. This project is coordinated with Program Element (PE) 0603025A (Army Agile Innovation and Demonstration) / Project DA3 (Army Advanced Innovation). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. Work is performed by the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition Logistics and Technology, the Army S&T Executing Commands, and the Army Research Laboratory (ARL).
Mission — Sci & Analysis for Autonomous Sys & Counter-Auton
This project investigates and develops capabilities to understand and characterize emerging Science and Technology (S&T) technical pursuits and impacts through collaborative analytics that enable the assessment of autonomous systems-of-systems, their implications to the future threat environment, and analyzes their contributions to the Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) concept in relevant operational scenarios. This is a cross-cutting effort that supports S&T, analysis, and modeling and simulation (M&S) efforts associated with the development of autonomous systems and their application in military operations. Work in this project also funds research to investigate, develop, and validate tools, methodologies, and analytical techniques to extend experimental results, assure early consideration of technology and system vulnerabilities, reduce developmental risk, provide mission context, and improve the robustness of technology readiness assessments. The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. Work in this project is performed by the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) and Data and Analysis Center (DAC).
Mission — Army Agile Innovation and Development-Applied Research
This Program Element (PE) funds the Army's goal of assessing and seeding innovative research solutions to achieve future force modernization. Critical technologies that allow for technological superiority are increasingly dual-use or developed in academia-led partnerships that leverage cutting edge innovation. Cross-cutting modernization initiatives leverage strategic partnerships and foster an environment to bring knowledge and expertise to demonstrate breakthrough and innovative technologies that will benefit the warfighter. These collaborations bring new ways of doing business to assess and evaluate emerging technologies with high payoff potential to address current technology shortfalls. Leveraging other innovative mechanisms, to include accelerators, incubators, and other technology accelerants, to enhance innovation is part of the overall innovation strategy. Innovation includes not only hardware and physical products but also software, software development, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning; all are stand-alone initiatives that are part of broader innovation to programs and technology development. Through the Army's Innovation Oversight Board, Army senior leadership approves innovation projects in the budget year and year of execution based on priority and opportunity, ensuring that innovations have a high potential for filling capability gaps and transitioning to Army Science and Technology (S&T) projects to inform an optimal technology investment strategy and rapidly deliver capabilities to the soldier. Work is performed by the United States Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM), Army Artificial Intelligence Integration Center (AI2C), the Engineering Research and Development Center, Space and Missile Defense Technical Center, and the United States Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences. The FY 2026 request was reduced by $0.078 million for Advisory and Assistance Services to promote efficiencies and advance the policies of the Administration in alignment with Executive Order 14222, "Implementing the President's Department of Government Efficiency Cost Efficiency Initiative." The FY 2026 request was reduced by $0.029 million for civilian personnel to optimize the workforce in compliance with Executive Order 14210, "Implementing the President's Department of Government Efficiency Workforce Optimization Initiative."
Mission — Army Applied Innovation
This project funds the Applied Research portion of the Army Innovation Plan, the Army's investment strategy to rapidly accelerate innovative solutions to challenging Warfighter problems. This project will provide the Army with the most advanced and cutting-edge solutions and the ability to adapt and integrate multi-disciplinary innovative technologies. This project accelerates breakthrough and disruptive innovations based on assessing and seeding a solution with multi-disciplinary knowledge. It addresses ideation and system-level integration applied research and development leading to potential emerging technologies in areas of strategic importance to the Army. Through the Army's Innovation Oversight Board, the Army senior leadership approves the innovation projects in the budget year and year of execution based on priority and opportunity, ensuring that innovations have a high potential for filling capability gaps and transitioning to Army Science and Technology (S&T) projects to inform an optimal technology investment strategy and rapidly deliver capabilities to the soldier. This project is coordinated with Program Element (PE) 0603025A (Army Agile Innovation and Demonstration) / Project DA3 (Army Advanced Innovation). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. Work is performed by the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition Logistics and Technology, the Army S&T Executing Commands, and the Army Research Laboratory (ARL).
Mission — Sci & Analysis for Autonomous Sys & Counter-Auton
This project investigates and develops capabilities to understand and characterize emerging Science and Technology (S&T) technical pursuits and impacts through collaborative analytics that enable the assessment of autonomous systems-of-systems, their implications to the future threat environment, and analyzes their contributions to the Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) concept in relevant operational scenarios. This is a cross-cutting effort that supports S&T, analysis, and modeling and simulation (M&S) efforts associated with the development of autonomous systems and their application in military operations. Work in this project also funds research to investigate, develop, and validate tools, methodologies, and analytical techniques to extend experimental results, assure early consideration of technology and system vulnerabilities, reduce developmental risk, provide mission context, and improve the robustness of technology readiness assessments. The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. Work in this project is performed by the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) and Data and Analysis Center (DAC).
Justification
Accomplishments & Planned Programs (8)
Army Applied Innovation
The Army seeks to research, evaluate, and validate cross-domain technology that display unique and innovative potential to rapidly produce disruptive and groundbreaking capabilities that fall outside of the normal acquisition pipeline.
University Innovation Hub
The Army seeks to leverage the academic innovation ecosystem to capture and mature disruptive technologies through their existing body of research and their capacity to further develop and deliver cross-cutting technology solutions for Army Transformation. Sources and partners include academic institutions, university entrepreneur/spin-out programs, international academic partners, Historically Black Colleges and Universities/Minority Institutions (HBCU/MI) underrepresented institutions, designated Army research centers, University Affiliated Research Centers (UARCs), and similar organizations. Outputs are planned for transition to advance, integrate into, or complement other Army science and technology programs or directly into acquisition programs.
Threat and Operations Based Intelligent Autonomy Science (TOBIAS)
This effort develops and implements models that will be used to assess the vulnerability and lethality (kinetic and non-kinetic) of U.S. and threat autonomous systems. This work will also incorporate the software-based behavioral capabilities of these systems including interfacing with humans. Technology forecasting will be used to enable the development of optimal investment strategies for autonomy science on the basis of operational merit.
Vulnerability and Lethality Analysis Tools for Early Science and Technology
Investigates, develops, and validates analytical tools, techniques, and methodologies to extend experimental and research results, ensuring early investigation of technology, system vulnerabilities, human systems integration, system performance, and mission effectiveness. Task objectives reduce developmental risk, provide validation of methodologies and tools in realistic mission contexts, and improve the robustness of technology readiness assessments.
Army Applied Innovation
The Army seeks to research, evaluate, and validate cross-domain technology that display unique and innovative potential to rapidly produce disruptive and groundbreaking capabilities that fall outside of the normal acquisition pipeline.
University Innovation Hub
The Army seeks to leverage the academic innovation ecosystem to capture and mature disruptive technologies through their existing body of research and their capacity to further develop and deliver cross-cutting technology solutions for Army Transformation. Sources and partners include academic institutions, university entrepreneur/spin-out programs, international academic partners, Historically Black Colleges and Universities/Minority Institutions (HBCU/MI) underrepresented institutions, designated Army research centers, University Affiliated Research Centers (UARCs), and similar organizations. Outputs are planned for transition to advance, integrate into, or complement other Army science and technology programs or directly into acquisition programs.
Threat and Operations Based Intelligent Autonomy Science (TOBIAS)
This effort develops and implements models that will be used to assess the vulnerability and lethality (kinetic and non-kinetic) of U.S. and threat autonomous systems. This work will also incorporate the software-based behavioral capabilities of these systems including interfacing with humans. Technology forecasting will be used to enable the development of optimal investment strategies for autonomy science on the basis of operational merit.
Vulnerability and Lethality Analysis Tools for Early Science and Technology
Investigates, develops, and validates analytical tools, techniques, and methodologies to extend experimental and research results, ensuring early investigation of technology, system vulnerabilities, human systems integration, system performance, and mission effectiveness. Task objectives reduce developmental risk, provide validation of methodologies and tools in realistic mission contexts, and improve the robustness of technology readiness assessments.
Budget line items(workbook-cited)
P-1/R-1 workbook Total Obligation Authority basis (USD thousands) · PB2026.
Exhibit R-1
| Account | Org | Type | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army | A | FY24 Actuals | $964.0K |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army | A | FY25 Enacted | $1.00M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army | A | FY25 Total | $1.00M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army | A | FY26 Disc. Request | $9.46M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army | A | FY26 Total | $9.46M |
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 | FY24 Actuals | FY25 Total | FY26 Base | FY26 Request |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Program Element | $964.0K | $1.00M | $9.46M | $9.46M |
| DC4: Army Applied Innovation | — | $750.0K | $4.25M | $4.25M |
| DC6: Sci & Analysis for Autonomous Sys & Counter-Auton | $964.0K | $250.0K | $5.20M | $5.20M |
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
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 Army Agile Innovation and Development-Applied Research. 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: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J9
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2026_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2023 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J8
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2023_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2024 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J8
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2024_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2025 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J8
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2025_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.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.
RDTE - Vol 1 - Budget Activity 2 · www.asafm.army.mil
PDF page 33
RDTE - Vol 1 - Budget Activity 1 · www.asafm.army.mil