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Unmanned Air Systems (Intel)
Budget figures
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 | $47.0M |
| FY25 | $50.6M |
| FY26 | $15.0M |
All series figures: P-1 TOA · 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 | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actuals | $24.3M | $42.2M | $47.0M | ||
| Enacted | – | $42.2M | $52.3M | $50.6M | |
| Request | – | – | $52.3M | $59.1M | $15.0M |
blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.
Asked vs spent: the PB2024 book requested $52.3M for FY2024; the PB2026 book reported $47.0M as actual total obligation authority — $5.32M below the request. 47.0 − 52.3 = -5.3 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
Description — Unmanned Air Systems
Family of Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (FoSUAS) is a Marine Corps Force Modernization initiative. FoSUAS consists of Short Range/Short Endurance (SR/SE), Medium Range/Medium Endurance (MR/ME) and Long Rang/ Long Endurance (LR/LE) systems. The FoSUAS program provides small unmanned aircraft systems (SUAS) for battalion, company, and detachment level units with scalable airborne reconnaissance, surveillance and target acquisition (RSTA) capabilities to aid in detecting, identifying, engaging, and avoiding enemy units. Within Force Modernization, SR/SE and MR/ME systems minimize operational risk and improve operational flexibility in asset allocation that maximizes economy of force across the conflict continuum. FoSUAS meets the validated operational requirements delineated in the Operational Requirements Document, Vertical Take Off and Landing Rapid Acquisition Top Level Requirements Document, and LR/LE Top Level Requirements Document. SR/SE is a SUAS with a 5-10 km range and endurance up to 50 minutes. SR/SE systems address the need for situational awareness in urban and challenging terrain environments and reduce request-to-response timeframes for RSTA coverage. MR/ME is a SUAS with a 10-20 km range and endurance up to 4 hours. MR/ME provides an organic, persistent RSTA capability to company level units, Route Clearance Platoons (RCP), and Combat Logistics Patrols (CLP), to enhance force protection, detect Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), provide laser targeting/marking/range finding, and communication relay. LR/LE is a SUAS with a 20-50 km range and endurance up to 6 hours. LR/LE provides organic capabilities to battalion level units to satisfy Ground Combat Element (GCE) RSTA needs. LR/LE SUAS are currently deployed to conduct multi-sensor RTSA operations for Marine Forces Special Operations Command (MARSOC) and support Marine Corps fires and maneuver elements.
Justification
Justification — Unmanned Air Systems
FY 2026 Base Appropriation Request: $14.991M. $2.143M procures SR/SE capabilities and $12.848M procures LR/LE capabilities. The decrease from FY 2025 to FY 2026 is due to a reduction in planned SR/SE and LR/LE system procurements in alignment with USMC priorities. Within the FoSUAS program, the FY 2026 plan prioritizes the procurement of the LR/LE systems while maintaining the proliferation of SR/SE capability at the platoon, squad, and unit level, in order to optimize battlespace awareness and maximize force protection. SR/SE systems align with the sensing strategy for the battalion level and below RSTA capability and provides attritable assets that are highly capable, low cost, and provide multi-domain capability to the Fleet Marine Force. They represent critical capability in the Marine Corps Uncrewed/Unmanned Roadmap through a family of systems approach that allows for technology maturation at the speed of industry and commercial sectors. The SUAS LR/LE platform is the primary enabler to Organic Precision Fires and the deployment of those capabilities intended for integrated use in Indo-Pacific Command and other theaters of operation. This increase directly supports Distributed Maritime Operations as well as the related concepts of Littoral Operations in a Contested Environment and Expeditionary Advance Base Operations. Starting in FY 2026, quantities are no longer included for SR/SE and LR/LE assets due to variability seen in the specific type, model, and series ordered in the execution year. Final specific system quantities within SR/SE and LR/LE capability are not set until the execution year, based on Fleet input. The program utilizes available budget authority to attain the SR/SE and LR/LE Authorized Acquisition Objective as rapidly as possible and responds to Fleet specific system requirements and adjustments in the year of execution.
Budget line items(workbook-cited)
P-1/R-1 workbook Total Obligation Authority basis (USD thousands) · PB2026.
Exhibit P-1
| Account | Org | Type | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Procurement, Marine Corps | N | FY24 Actuals | $47.0M |
| Procurement, Marine Corps | N | FY25 Enacted | $50.6M |
| Procurement, Marine Corps | N | FY26 Disc. Request | $15.0M |
| Procurement, Marine Corps | N | FY26 Total | $15.0M |
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 | All Prior Years | FY24 Actuals | FY25 Total | FY26 Base | FY26 Request |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Program Element | $247.2M | $47.0M | $50.6M | $15.0M | $15.0M |
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 Unmanned Air Systems (Intel). 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: Procurement Programs (P-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit P-1 · O805
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2026_DoD_P-1_Procurement.xlsx.
FY2024 Department of Defense Budget: Procurement Programs (P-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit P-1 · O777
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2024_DoD_P-1_Procurement.xlsx.
FY2025 Department of Defense Budget: Procurement Programs (P-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit P-1 · O820
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2025_DoD_P-1_Procurement.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.