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FAMILY OF LOW ALTITUDE UNMANNED SYSTEMS
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. 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
Insufficient trajectory data for sparkline (only FY25 available).
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
● actuals (line) · ○ enacted · ◇ request — gaps are editions the program is absent from, never interpolated.
| Series | FY25 |
|---|---|
| Enacted | $120.6M |
| Request | $120.6M |
blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.
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 — FAMILY OF LOW ALTITUDE UNMANNED SYSTEMS
Family of Low Altitude Unmanned Systems (C91500) is a summary budget line containing a family of semi-autonomous (human-in-the-loop) unmanned aerial systems that improves the Infantry Brigade Combat Team (IBCT) lethality in terms of stand-off and destruction against dismounted formations, armored vehicles, and tanks. The project currently includes the following efforts: C91521 (Low Altitude Stalking and Strike Ordnance (LASSO)) - Infantry Brigade Combat Teams (IBCTs) lack adequate proportional organic capabilities at echelon to apply immediate, point, long range, and direct fire effects to destroy tanks, light armored vehicles, hardened targets, defilade, and personnel targets, while producing minimal collateral damage in complex terrain in all environmental conditions. The LASSO is a day/night capable, lightweight, unmanned aerial anti-tank ordnance, man-portable weapon that consists of an All-Up Round (AUR) and Fire Control System (FCS). The AUR includes the launch/delivery system and payload. The FCS consists of the Fire Control Unit (FCU), ground data link/terminal (GDT), and any other ancillary equipment. The LASSO range requirement is to fly less than or equal to 20km (straight line with auxiliary antenna) with a flight endurance that enables the Soldier to make multiple orbits within the IBCT typically assigned battlespace, to acquire and attack targets within and beyond current crew served and small arms fire. The range/endurance enables the unit to utilize reach back capability and maximize standoff. Unlike existing direct and indirect fire weapon systems, LASSO's discreet payload and unique capability delivers Soldiers the ability to abort against targets in a dynamic situation (e.g., use of human shields) or prosecute targets that would have been deemed non-viable in past due to the higher collateral damage associated with alternative munitions. The LASSO base capability will be optimized to defeat tanks rapidly and precisely for IBCTs. Follow on increments will support future capabilities for company and below echelons. Future increments will focus on additional range increases, enhanced lethality, and advanced payload options (personnel, hard sites, etc.). LASSO AAO: 1,675 FCUs FY 2026 funding was realigned from Budget Activity (BA) 2, C91500 Long Range Precision Munition to BA 6, I46000 LAUNCHED EFFECTS FAMILY in support of Agile Portfolio Management.
Justification
Justification — FAMILY OF LOW ALTITUDE UNMANNED SYSTEMS
FY 2026 funding was realigned from Budget Activity (BA) 2, C91500 Long Range Precision Munition to BA 6, I46000 LAUNCHED EFFECTS FAMILY / I46012 LOW ALTITUDE STALKING AND STRIKE ORD (LASSO) in support of Agile Portfolio Management. In accordance with Section 1815 of the FY 2008 National Defense Authorization Act (P.L. 110-181), this item is necessary for use by the active and reserve components of the Armed Forces for homeland defense missions, domestic emergency responses, and providing military support to civil authorities.
Budget line items(workbook-cited)
P-1/R-1 workbook Total Obligation Authority basis (USD thousands) · PB2026.
Exhibit P-1
| Account | Org | Type | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Missile Procurement, Army | A | FY25 Enacted | $120.6M |
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.
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| Project | FY25 Total |
|---|---|
| Program Element | $120.6M |
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
11 mentions from the Senate LDA disclosure database.
U.S. Coast Guard and CBP adoption of Medium-Altitude Long-Endurance Unmanned Aircraft Systems.
U.S. Coast Guard and CBP adoption of Medium-Altitude Long-Endurance Unmanned Aircraft Systems.
U.S. Coast Guard and CBP adoption of Medium-Altitude Long-Endurance Unmanned Aircraft Systems.
U.S. Coast Guard and CBP adoption of Medium-Altitude Long-Endurance Unmanned Aircraft Systems.
U.S. Coast Guard and CBP adoption of Medium-Altitude Long-Endurance Unmanned Aircraft Systems.
U.S. Coast Guard and CBP adoption of Medium-Altitude Long-Endurance Unmanned Aircraft Systems.
U.S. Coast Guard and CBP adoption of Medium-Altitude Long-Endurance Unmanned Aircraft Systems.
U.S. Coast Guard adoption of Medium-Altitude Long-Endurance Unmanned Aircraft Systems.
U.S. Coast Guard adoption of Medium-Altitude Long-Endurance Unmanned Aircraft Systems.
U.S. Coast Guard adoption of Medium-Altitude Long-Endurance Unmanned Aircraft Systems.
U.S. Coast Guard adoption of Medium-Altitude Long-Endurance Unmanned Aircraft Systems.
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 FAMILY OF LOW ALTITUDE UNMANNED SYSTEMS. 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 · Q77
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2026_DoD_P-1_Procurement.xlsx.
FY2025 Department of Defense Budget: Procurement Programs (P-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit P-1 · S74
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.
Missile Procurement Army · www.asafm.army.mil
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