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Rand Arroyo Center

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What it is
Rand Arroyo Center — a research & development program run by Army.
What changed
-$27.2M FY25→26
Who gets it
No award linkage at high confidence.

Budget Figures

FY24 Actuals
$35.3M
FY25 Total
$38.1M
FY26 Request
$10.9M
FY25→26 Change
-$27.2M

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: $35.3MFY25: $38.1MFY26: $10.9MFY24FY25FY26
FY24
$35.3M
FY25
$38.1M
FY26
$10.9M
Decade view — each figure cites its own President's Budget edition
FY2015 actuals — PB2017 editionFY2016 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 editionFY2016 enacted — PB2017 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 editionFY2017 request — PB2017 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 editionFY15FY26

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

SeriesFY15FY16FY17FY18FY19FY20FY21FY22FY23FY24FY25FY26
Actuals$19.8M$20.0M$19.9M$19.3M$19.1M$12.6M$13.0M$31.1M$30.8M$35.3M
Enacted$19.4M$20.7M$20.1M$19.8M$13.1M$13.0M$32.3M$33.6M$37.1M$38.1M
Request$20.7M$20.1M$19.8M$13.1M$13.5M$33.1M$35.5M$37.1M$38.1M$10.9M

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

Asked vs spent: the PB2023 book requested $35.5M for FY2023; the PB2025 book reports $30.8M actually spent — $4.74M 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 Arroyo Center Spt

This Program Element funds the RAND-Arroyo Center, the Department of the Army's Federally Funded Research and Development Center, for strategic studies and analysis. The Army's management of RAND-Arroyo's activities are governed by AR 5-21. RAND-Arroyo Center provides strategic analytical research across a broad spectrum of issues grouped into the following core competencies research areas: Personnel, Training, and Health; Forces and Logistics; and Strategy, Doctrine and Resources; applied national security knowledge; academic rigor; multidisciplinary teams; and dynamism, which includes innovation and agility. The RAND-Arroyo Center research agenda is primarily focused on mid/long-term strategic concerns. Current priorities include: implementation of the National Defense Strategy; total force readiness; Army modernization; operations and dynamic force employment; reform of business processes; multi-domain operations; soldier-centric investments; and soldier and family resilience. Results and analytical findings directly affect senior leadership deliberations on major issues. The Arroyo Center Policy Committee (ACPC), is co-chaired by the Under Secretary of the Army and Vice Chief of Staff of the Army, provides guidance, sets the annual research plan, and monitors execution. RAND-Arroyo research is sponsored by Army Senior Leaders and Army Major Commands. In FY21, the ACPC 1) directed a change in the execution of the RAND-Arroyo program which resulted in a change to the business model and 2) directed a consolidation of existing resources for the RAND-Arroyo program.

Mission Rand Arroyo Center

This Program Element funds the RAND-Arroyo Center, the Department of the Army's only Federally Funded Research and Development Center, for strategic studies and analysis. The Army's management of RAND-Arroyo's activities are governed by AR 5-21 and receives guidance through the Arroyo Center Policy Committee (ACPC), which is co-chaired by the Under Secretary of the Army and the Vice Chief of Staff of the Army. The ACPC provides guidance, sets the annual research plan, and monitors execution. As a result, the RAND-Arroyo Center provides strategic analytical research across a broad spectrum of issues grouped in three major research areas: Personnel, Training, and Health; Forces and Logistics; and Strategy, Doctrine and Resources. The RAND-Arroyo Center research agenda is primarily focused on mid/long-term strategic concerns. Current priorities include: implementation of the National Defense Strategy; collaborative lethality & survivability, sustaining the joint force, balancing capability modernization across FYDPs, taking care of people, and homeland defense. Results and analytical findings directly affect senior leadership deliberations on major issues. In FY21 the ACPC directed a change in the execution of the RAND-Arroyo program which resulted in a change to business practices and directed a consolidation of existing resources for the RAND-Arroyo Center program. Note that FY24 includes SBIR (Title 15 USC §638(f)(1)) in the amount of $1,173K and STTR (Title 15 USC §638(n)(1)(A)) in the amount of $165K.

Justification

No accomplishments or planned-program narratives in this line's J-book detail — some exhibits carry figures without per-project prose.

Budget Line Items(workbook-cited)

Exhibit R-1

AccountOrgTypeAmount
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, ArmyAFY24 Actuals$35.3M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, ArmyAFY25 Enacted$38.1M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, ArmyAFY25 Total$38.1M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, ArmyAFY26 Disc. Request$10.9M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, ArmyAFY26 Total$10.9M

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

ProjectFY24 ActualsFY25 TotalFY26 BaseFY26 Request
Program Element$35.3M$38.1M$10.9M$10.9M
732: Arroyo Center Spt$35.3M$38.1M$10.9M$10.9M

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? →