Unmanned Aircraft System Universal Products

ArmyRDT&EFully Reconciled0607143A

What it is

Unmanned Aircraft System Universal Products (0607143A) 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

$24.5MR-1 TOA · PB2026

FY25 Total

$24.5MR-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.

Budget trajectory: one row per fiscal year, carrying the summary figure the sparkline plots. Every figure opens its own citation.
Fiscal year	Amount
FY24	$24.5MR-1 TOA · PB2026
FY25	$24.5MR-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

10 fiscal years of this program as published (FY2016–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. The grid below is the same data as text, one cited figure per cell.

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.
Series	FY16	FY17	FY18	FY19	FY20	FY21	FY22	FY23	FY24	FY25
Actuals	$0	$0	$36.9M	$36.5M	$17.4M	$19.5M	$4.43M	$10.5M	$24.5M
Enacted	–	$0	$38.5M	$38.3M	$18.1M	$19.5M	$4.59M	$10.5M	$25.4M	$24.5M
Request		–	$38.5M	$52.0M	$32.0M	$7.74M	$4.59M	$512.0K	$25.4M	$24.5M

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

Asked vs spent: the PB2019 book requested $52.0M for FY2019; the PB2021 book reported $36.5M as actual total obligation authority — $15.5M below the request. 36.5 − 52.0 = -15.5 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 — Unmanned Aircraft System Universal Products

Scalable Control Interface (SCI) is a permissions-based software control suite used by Soldiers to simultaneously control multiple, disparate types of uncrewed or optionally-manned aircraft and payloads through a universal interface with scalable levels of authority. SCI distributes Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) capabilities by greatly increasing the number of UAS control devices available to Soldiers, Commanders, and Battle Staff. SCI provides simultaneous employment of multiple aircraft/payloads from a single control node. SCI leverages a Modular Open System Approach (MOSA) to software in order to reduce time and cost to integrate new hardware and software in response to the dynamic future operating environment. Deployment of SCI includes devices in the Mobile/Handheld Computing Environment (such as Nett Warrior), Mounted Computing Environment such as Mounted Family of Computer Systems (MFoCS), Command Post Computing Environment such as Tactical Services Infrastructure (TSI), fixed wing aircraft, and rotary wing aircraft. SCI will integrate decision aiding, autonomy, and artificial intelligence improvements as they technically mature, in order to support Multi-Domain Operations and reduce cognitive workload.

Mission — Unmanned Aircraft Systems Universal Products

Scalable Control Interface (SCI) is a permissions-based software control suite used by Soldiers to simultaneously control multiple, disparate types of uncrewed or optionally-manned aircraft and payloads through a universal interface with scalable levels of authority. SCI distributes UAS capabilities by greatly increasing the number of UAS control devices available to Soldiers, Commanders, and Battle Staff. SCI provides simultaneous employment of multiple aircraft/payloads from a single control node. SCI leverages a Modular Open System Approach (MOSA) to software in order to reduce time and cost to integrate new hardware and software in response to the dynamic future operating environment. Deployment of SCI includes devices in the Mobile/Handheld Computing Environment (such as Nett Warrior), Mounted Computing Environment such as Mounted Family of Computer Systems (MFoCS), Command Post Computing Environment such as Tactical Services Infrastructure (TSI), fixed wing aircraft, and rotary wing aircraft. SCI will integrate decision aiding, autonomy, and artificial intelligence improvements as they technically mature, in order to support Multi-Domain Operations and reduce cognitive workload.

Justification

Accomplishments & Planned Programs (2)

Scalable Control Interface (SCI)

SCI will be the primary means of Command and Control (C2) for Program of Record Army UAS. SCI software will be hosted on Mission Command devices in both ground and airborne platforms serving as nodes on the Integrated Tactical Network to retrieve and provide data. SCI distributes UAS capabilities by greatly increasing the number of UAS control devices available to Soldiers, Commanders, and Battle Staff. SCI provides simultaneous employment of multiple aircraft/payloads from a single control node.

SBIR/STTR Transfer

Funding transferred in accordance with Title 15 USC §638.

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	$24.5M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army	A	FY25 Enacted	$24.5M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army	A	FY25 Total	$24.5M

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	$24.5M	$24.5M	$0
EX1: Unmanned Aircraft Systems Universal Products	$24.5M	$24.5M	—

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

Showing 25 of 93 from the Senate LDA disclosure database.

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House and Senate FAA legislation as it pertains to aviation safety, unmanned aircraft systems, advanced air mobility…