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High Mobility Engineer Excavator (HMEE)
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 FY2024. 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 FY24 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actuals | $0 | $10.0M | $50.3M | |
| Enacted | – | $10.0M | – | – |
| Request | – | – | $0 | $31.7M |
blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.
Asked vs spent: the PB2024 book requested $0 for FY2024; the PB2026 book reported $50.3M as actual total obligation authority — $50.3M above the request. 50.3 − 0.0 = 50.3 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 — High Mobility Engineer Excavator (HMEE)
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. The High Mobility Engineer Excavator (HMEE) is self-deployable and is used to repair Lines of Communication resulting in increased force mobility, maneuverability, deploy ability, and sustainability. It is capable of traveling up to 56 mph on primary roads, 25 mph on secondary roads, and maintains pace with the Army's current and future combat systems. The HMEE enables the current and future multi-domain maneuver force by equipping Airborne, Construction and Combat Engineer units with the capabilities necessary to conduct light earthmoving, loading and excavation throughout the area of operations in support of airfield and road repair/construction, preparation of bridge sites, base camp/facility sustainment to executing survivability and major construction tasks. The HMEE has the capability to accept a Crew Protection Kit (CPK) (Armor kit) to support Airborne Units. It is slightly modified to accept the Armor Kit and is air-droppable from a C-17 aircraft with a Low Velocity Air Drop (LVAD) Kit. The HMEE with CPK will be fielded to Engineer Support Companies and Infantry Brigade Combat Teams (IBCTs) in Airborne units. The HMEE is a Critical Dual Use (CDU) system enabling and supporting Defense Support to Civil Authorities (DSCA) operations (i.e. Disaster Relief). The HMEE is a non-developmental item (NDI). HMEE-I integrated with Electrical Over Hydraulic (EOH) upgrades through an Engineering Change Proposal (ECP) enables remote operations and semi-autonomy of the HMEE. This upgrade is known as HMEE-IV. The HMEE-IV provides the same excavation and high travel speed (56 mph) capabilities as the HMEE-I. The HMEE-I is the legacy configuration, no longer being produced. The High Mobility Engineer Excavator Type III (HMEE-III) is a Backhoe Loader (BHL) which is a Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) backhoe loader with minor military modifications. The BHL provides the capability to execute general construction missions in the areas of road building, airfield construction, repair and improve road systems, trails and bridges. The BHL also has the capability to accept a CPK in the form of a replaceable armored cab for contingency operations. The BHL is capable of driving up to 25 MPH on improved roads and 7 MPH off-road. The BHL is transported in the air via C-130, C-5, or C-17 aircraft, or across the highway with M916/M870 and M915/M172 truck/trailer combination organic to the unit. The BHL is fielded to Horizontal and Vertical Construction Companies, the Army training base, and other Non-Engineer Units. The BHL is no longer in production. The Army Acquisition Objective is: 1,998 (HMEE-I/IV: 1,316/HMEE-III: 682). This program is included in the OPA Budget Line Consolidation. In FY 2025, this program consolidates the High Mobility Engineer Excavator (HMEE) (R05901) into the new Construction Equipment (R02700) program.
Justification
Justification — High Mobility Engineer Excavator (HMEE)
This program is included in the OPA Budget Line Consolidation. In FY 2025, this program consolidates the High Mobility Engineer Excavator (HMEE) (R05901) into the new Construction Equipment (R02700) program. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Other Procurement, Army | A | FY24 Actuals | $50.3M |
Exhibit P-1R
| Account | Org | Type | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Other Procurement, Army | A | FY24 Actuals | $37.5M |
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 | All Prior Years | FY24 Actuals |
|---|---|---|
| Program Element | $503.4M | $50.3M |
Follow the dollar
No follow-the-dollar view — none of this program's high-confidence awards records a positive obligation at any place of performance (flows cover 312 of 1,938 programs). why coverage is partial? →
Related awards
Award linkage is shown for 32 of 200 profiled companies — high- and medium-confidence USAspending matches, each row labeled; medium is the weaker evidence. why partial award coverage? →
| Recipient | PIID | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
| JCB INC. | W56HZV14D0066 | high |
Contractor concentration
No concentration index is published for this line. This line's high-confidence links do not clear the floor for a published concentration index — at least 3 awards across 2 contractor families holding positive obligations, with positive net linked dollars. An index below that floor is a fact about the sample, not about the market. Whatever further links this line carries are medium-confidence, and what each medium evidence path does and does not establish is set out in the methodology. Both bases are in the downloadable warehouse.
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 High Mobility Engineer Excavator (HMEE). 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 · O277
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 · O284
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 · O284
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2025_DoD_P-1_Procurement.xlsx.
FY2026 Department of Defense Budget: Procurement Programs (P-1R) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit P-1R · N114,N115
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2026_DoD_P-1R_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.
Other Procurement - BA 3, 4 & 6 - Other Support Equipment, Initial Spares and Agile Portfolio Management · www.asafm.army.mil
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