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Fiscal Receipts

Robotics Development

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What it is
Robotics Development — a research & development program run by Army.
What changed
+$22.0M FY25→26
Who gets it
No award linkage at high confidence.

Budget Figures

FY24 Actuals
$2.91M
FY25 Total
$13.0M
FY26 Request
$35.1M
FY25→26 Change
$22.0M

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
FY24: $2.91MFY25: $13.0MFY26: $35.1MFY24FY25FY26
FY24
$2.91M
FY25
$13.0M
FY26
$35.1M
Decade view — each figure cites its own President's Budget edition
FY2016 actuals — PB2018 editionFY2017 actuals — PB2019 editionFY2018 actuals — PB2020 editionFY2019 actuals — PB2021 editionFY2020 actuals — PB2022 editionFY2021 actuals — PB2023 editionFY2022 actuals — PB2024 editionFY2023 actuals — PB2025 editionFY2024 actuals — PB2026 editionFY2017 enacted — PB2018 editionFY2018 enacted — PB2019 editionFY2019 enacted — PB2020 editionFY2020 enacted — PB2021 editionFY2021 enacted — PB2022 editionFY2022 enacted — PB2023 editionFY2023 enacted — PB2024 editionFY2024 enacted — PB2025 editionFY2025 enacted — PB2026 editionFY2018 request — PB2018 editionFY2019 request — PB2019 editionFY2020 request — PB2020 editionFY2021 request — PB2021 editionFY2022 request — PB2022 editionFY2023 request — PB2023 editionFY2024 request — PB2024 editionFY2025 request — PB2025 editionFY2026 request — PB2026 editionFY16FY26

● actuals (line)  ·  ○ enacted  ·  ◇ request — gaps are editions the program is absent from, never interpolated.

SeriesFY16FY17FY18FY19FY20FY21FY22FY23FY24FY25FY26
Actuals$0$0$38.1M$70.7M$80.9M$92.4M$78.3M$27.4M$2.91M
Enacted$0$39.6M$74.4M$84.4M$95.4M$80.5M$26.6M$3.02M$13.0M
Request$39.6M$95.7M$115.2M$121.2M$87.2M$26.6M$3.02M$3.04M$35.1M

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

Asked vs spent: the PB2020 book requested $115.2M for FY2020; the PB2022 book reports $80.9M actually spent — $34.3M below the request.

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 Robotics Systems

Robotics Development funding is to demonstrate new capabilities to meet current and future military needs and to determine integration potential across the Army Ground Robotics portfolio by testing and evaluating a variety of emerging technologies. Robotics Development (RD) improves robotic and autonomous program acquisition schedules by supporting the development of integrated and synchronized capability documents (e.g. JCIDS, Department Directed, etc.) and by maturing / transitioning technology. Research, Development, Test & Evaluation (RDT&E) funds enable support to capability development of emerging requirements. Activities include collaboration with industry and government, studies, assessments, and document development such as Technology Readiness Levels, Manufacturing Readiness Levels, Analysis of Alternatives / Letter of Sufficiency determinations, draft acquisition documents, and draft contract documents. RD also supports the Army modernization strategy of the current Ground Robotic fleets and current Army vehicles by investigating technology insertions including, but not limited to condition-based maintenance, vetronics, autonomous operations and other ground robotics technologies. FY 2026 Base RDTE funds in the amount of $35.082 million will continue to demonstrate and explore technologies that support the Army's Transformation Initiative published in 2025. Funding will also support expansion of the virtual test and evaluation capabilities for autonomous software and electronic warfare.

Mission Robotics Development

FD9: Robotics Development improves the autonomous robotic systems portfolio by maturing cutting edge emergent commercial technology for transition, creating a virtual test capability to support evaluation, developmental test, system safety testing and operational force-on-force execution for Concept of Operations (CONOP) and Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTP) development, development of prototypes and to support infrastructure needs such as cloud-based tools for development and deployment of Autonomy and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Machine Learning (ML) software and tools to support automated testing in a Development, Security and Operations (DEVSECOPS) process. FD9 will also be used in support of developing Milestone Decision activities for emerging Programs.

Justification

Accomplishments & Planned Programs (3)

Advanced Ground Robotics Software/ Autonomy Development

Establish infrastructure to support cloud-based tools for development and deployment of AI/ML software, tools to support automated testing of Autonomy Software. Funding supports validation and verification of incremental system software capability upgrades for emerging robotic requirements through M&S Software-in-the-loop (SITL) and Hardware-in-the-loop (HITL) allowing for transition into Program of Record.

Advanced Ground Robotics Systems Development

Procurement of Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) or Government Off-The-Shelf (GOTS) hardware solutions to support emerging requirements and emerging technology for evaluation.

Emerging Robotics Systems

Validation and verification of incremental system software capability upgrades for emerging robotic requirements through M&S Software-in-the-loop (SITL) and Hardware-in-the-loop (HITL) allowing for transition into Program of Record.

Budget Line Items(workbook-cited)

Exhibit R-1

AccountOrgTypeAmount
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, ArmyAFY24 Actuals$2.91M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, ArmyAFY25 Enacted$13.0M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, ArmyAFY25 Total$13.0M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, ArmyAFY26 Disc. Request$35.1M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, ArmyAFY26 Total$35.1M

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

ProjectFY24 ActualsFY25 TotalFY26 BaseFY26 Request
FD9: Robotics Systems$2.91M$13.0M$35.1M$35.1M
Program Element$2.91M$13.0M$35.1M$35.1M

No follow-the-dollar view — this program's awards haven't been crosswalked at high confidence (flows cover 17 of 1741 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.

No research dossier for this program — dossiers cover 50 of 1741 programs, the largest fully J-book-detailed lines by FY2026 requested dollars. why no dossier here? →