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Cross Functional Team (CFT) Advanced Development & Prototyping
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. The PB2026 J-book detail below does carry an FY2026 row for this line, recorded as zero. A workbook blank and a documented zero are different records, and this page shows both. 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 | $61.8MR-1 TOA · PB2026 |
| FY25 | $40.4MR-1 TOA · PB2026 |
| FY26 | $0J-book detail · 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 | FY17 | FY18 | FY19 | FY20 | FY21 | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actuals | $0 | $0 | $8.22M | – | $0 | $0 | $74.2M | $61.8M | |
| Enacted | – | $0 | $9.49M | $0 | – | $0 | $77.0M | $117.6M | $40.4M |
| Request | – | – | $38.0M | $0 | $0 | – | $106.0M | $117.6M | $63.8M |
blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.
Asked vs spent: the PB2024 book requested $117.6M for FY2024; the PB2026 book reported $61.8M as actual total obligation authority — $55.8M below the request. 61.8 − 117.6 = -55.8 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 — Cross Functional Team (CFT) Advanced Development & Prototyping
This Program Element (PE) is the Army led scope of the Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve (RDER) initiative. To facilitate rapid modernization of the force, the RDER initiative was established in the Defense Planning Guidance for Fiscal Year 2023-2027, to encourage multi-component experimentation through a campaign of learning. Services, Agencies, and other participating organizations are to identify "best of breed" capabilities developed among the DoD prototyping programs and execute approved projects through large-scale experiments in order to refine and/or validate the Joint Warfighting Concept (JWC). Organizations are to nominate proposals to the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD(R&E)) that are multi-component - involving Joint Services, International partners and/or other government agencies - and link to one or more of the four key supporting concepts ("functional battles") of the Joint Warfighting Concept: Joint Concept for Fires, Joint Concept for Command and Control, Joint Concept for Contested Logistics, and Joint Concept for Information Advantage. Army lead experimentation outcomes will be designed to validate required capabilities enabling the JWC by evaluating and integrating prototyped technologies in operationally relevant, multi-domain environments. Experimentation results will facilitate Joint Staff analysis in the evaluation of the Joint Warfighting Concept, assist the Joint Requirements Oversight Counsel in requirements determination, and inform the Deputy's Management Action Group to make budget decisions that affect changes throughout the Department. The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense, Research and Engineering science and the JWC. Work in this PE is performed by the United States (U.S.) Army and other Service laboratories and research centers, U.S. Army and Joint Program Executive Offices and Program Management Offices.
Mission — Army Experimentation and Prototyping
Army led programs and experimentation enable Joint All Domain Operations concepts applicable across multiple Combatant Commands (CCMD) to address OUSD R&E priority scenarios. Individual efforts bring together layered solutions to compete with peer and near-peer adversaries through the development of capabilities that support fires, command and control, logistics, and capabilities that will drive information advantage. These activities will accelerate joint warfighting capabilities to quickly demonstrate and assess innovative technologies resulting in follow-on Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), Army, and other Service efforts for accelerated transition of the technologies to CCMD required operations. The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Joint Warfighting Concepts.
Justification
Accomplishments & Planned Programs (2)
Army RDER 24 Program
The Army RDER 24 program will mature technologies to TRL7+ prototypes for a series of Soldier evaluations culminating with a CCMD assessment. Efforts will include an expeditionary fabrication capability with constrained resources, expeditionary solutions to reduce demand of logistics resupply and repair, autonomous platform solutions for logistics resupply and supporting modeling and simulation capabilities. Additional efforts focusing on base defense will include advanced fires capabilities, advanced sensing capabilities, and improvements to network, data analytics, and information distribution. The project portfolio will progress from prototyping, integration and risk reduction activities to facilitate an integrated and interoperable capability demonstration of layered solutions for logistics operations, resupply, repair, and base defense.
Army RDER 25 Program
The Army RDER 25 program will mature technologies to TRL7+ prototypes for a series of Soldier evaluations culminating with a CCMD assessment to facilitate acceleration to Army and Joint Service Acquisition. Efforts will include advanced communication and network connectivity to enable interoperable joint service communication; integrated solutions for advanced fires, sensors, and communication; and advanced logistics support capabilities. The project portfolio will progress from prototyping, integration and risk reduction activities to facilitate warfighter training, experimentation and assessments leading toward potential recommendations for transition acceleration. Army RDER FY25 projects were approved through the OSD-RE / DMAG / CAPE selection process.
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 | $61.8M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army | A | FY25 Enacted | $40.4M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army | A | FY25 Total | $40.4M |
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 | FY24 Actuals | FY25 Total | FY26 Request |
|---|---|---|---|
| Program Element | $61.8M | $40.4M | $0 |
| DC8: Army Experimentation and Prototyping | $61.8M | $40.4M | — |
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
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 Cross Functional Team (CFT) Advanced Development & Prototyping. 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 · J78
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2026_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2019 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J73
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2019_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2020 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J91
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2020_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2021 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J97
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2021_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2023 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J69
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 · J69
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 · J69
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 2 - Budget Activity 4A · www.asafm.army.mil