Fiscal Receipts

Cross Functional Team (CFT) Advanced Development & Prototyping

ArmyRDT&EFully Reconciled0604020A
What it is
Cross Functional Team (CFT) Advanced Development & Prototyping (0604020A) is an Army research & development line funded in the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army account. Its J-book detail breaks the line into 1 project.
What changed
No FY25→26 comparison — endpoints unavailable or on different bases.
Who gets it
No award linkage at high confidence.

Budget Figures

FY24 Actuals
$61.8MR-1 TOA · PB2026
FY25 Total
$40.4MR-1 TOA · PB2026
FY26 Request
$0P-40 detail · PB2026
FY25→26 Change
No comparison: endpoints unavailable or on different bases

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.
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.FY24: $61.8MFY25: $40.4MFY26: $0FY24FY25FY26
Budget trajectory: one row per fiscal year, carrying the summary figure the sparkline plots. Every figure opens its own citation.
Fiscal yearAmount
FY24$61.8MR-1 TOA · PB2026
FY25$40.4MR-1 TOA · PB2026
FY26$0P-40 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
9 fiscal years of this program as published (FY2017–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 rises across the span, and 1 year is a break in the line rather than a low value: an edition the program is absent from, never interpolated. The grid below is the same data as text, one cited figure per cell.
9 fiscal years of this program as published (FY2017–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 rises across the span, and 1 year is a break in the line rather than a low value: an edition the program is absent from, never interpolated. The grid below is the same data as text, one cited figure per cell.FY2017 actuals — PB2019 editionFY2018 actuals — PB2020 editionFY2019 actuals — PB2021 editionFY2021 actuals — PB2023 editionFY2022 actuals — PB2024 editionFY2023 actuals — PB2025 editionFY2024 actuals — PB2026 editionFY2018 enacted — PB2019 editionFY2019 enacted — PB2020 editionFY2020 enacted — PB2021 editionFY2022 enacted — PB2023 editionFY2023 enacted — PB2024 editionFY2024 enacted — PB2025 editionFY2025 enacted — PB2026 editionFY2019 request — PB2019 editionFY2020 request — PB2020 editionFY2021 request — PB2021 editionFY2023 request — PB2023 editionFY2024 request — PB2024 editionFY2025 request — PB2025 editionFY17FY18FY19FY20FY21FY22FY23FY24FY25

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.
SeriesFY17FY18FY19FY20FY21FY22FY23FY24FY25
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

AccountOrgTypeAmount
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, ArmyAFY24 Actuals$61.8M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, ArmyAFY25 Enacted$40.4M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, ArmyAFY25 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.

ProjectFY24 ActualsFY25 TotalFY26 Request
Program Element$61.8M$40.4M$0
DC8: Army Experimentation and Prototyping$61.8M$40.4M—

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 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.

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? →

Primary Sources