FUTURE UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS… (BLI 8000I48000) · Army

What it is

FUTURE UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS (UAS) FAMILY (8000I48000) is an Army procurement line funded in the Aircraft Procurement, Army account.

What changed

No FY25→26 comparison — endpoints unavailable or on different bases.

Who gets it

No company is linked to this line. Award records do not carry the program element, so the crosswalk is silent here — why.

Budget figures

FY24 Actuals

Not in the FY2026 J-books we ingested

FY25 Enacted

Not in the FY2026 J-books we ingested

FY26 Request

$118.5MP-1 TOA · PB2026

FY25→26 Change

No comparison: endpoints unavailable or on different bases

Data coverage

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 FY26 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

One fiscal year of this program as published: 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 is too short to show a direction. The grid below is the same data as text, one cited figure per cell.

● 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	FY26
Request	$118.5M

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 — FUTURE UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS (UAS) FAMILY

Future Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Family (Agile) is a part of the Department of Defense Capability Based (Agile) funding pilot, which provides enhanced capabilities by fostering innovation and accelerated deployment of promising technology. Funding in this portfolio will be directed towards enhanced warfighting effectiveness and combating limitations from the pace and proliferation of technological change. This is not a new start. This funding is a realignment from: 1) A00510 Future Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System (FTUAS) / A00511 Air Launched Effects and A01311 Future Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System (TUAS) 2) A01002 UAS MODS / A00121 OSRVT MODS 3) A01001 MQ-1 Payload / A01005 CSP FMV The Future Unmanned Aerial System (FUAS) is a critical system in the cross-domain capabilities concept that will employ multi-domain operation (MDO) capabilities at all echelons and allow ground-based forces to project power from land into other domains to defeat highly capable enemies, secure terrain, and consolidate gains. FUAS provides a runway independent, vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL), expeditionary reconnaissance, surveillance, target acquisition (RSTA) with multiple sensors, communications, lethality and electromagnetic warfare capability). FUAS supports Human Machine Integrated Formations (HMIF) and provides the opportunity to learn, fail, refine requirements, and develop solutions faster than our adversaries; FUAS incorporates soldier feedback to enhance survivability in a multi-domain operations (MDO) environment through modular payloads to facilitate upgraded communication, encryption, and lethality at the pace of technology. Additionally, FUAS provides BCTs with enhanced transportability, rapid deployability, expeditionary maneuver, and mobility for adaptive and agile operations. One BCT system consists of multiple air vehicles with Modular Mission Payloads (MMPs), ground control stations, and ancillary equipment. The aircraft subsystem includes the airframe, propulsion, avionics, communications, navigation, and software systems; aircraft-specific ground support equipment including power generation, transportation, or command and control equipment; aircraft software and MMPs. Launched Effects (LE) will provide Army formations the ability to retain their asymmetric advantage in reach, protection, and lethality in the execution of Joint All-Domain Operations (JADO). The lethal and nonlethal air and ground capabilities of LE will provide seamless real-time integration of multiple warfighting functions in the execution of joint attack, reconnaissance, and security operations that create multiple dilemmas for the enemy. LE efforts are based on requirements from an Army Requirements Oversight Council (AROC) approved Abbreviated-Capability Development Document (A-CDD) approved 08 July 2024. Manned, optionally-manned, and uncrewed systems will penetrate defense-in-depth environments by employing LE with teaming and swarming effects to detect, decoy, jam radar and communications, conduct cyber-attack, spoof and jam Global Positioning System (GPS), and kinetic engagement. The Common Sensor Payload (CSP) (MIP) (I48014) budget line supports procurement of Aerial Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (A-ISR) payload systems for Divisions and Echelons Above Division Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). Funding in this budget line supports a Sensor Centric approach for sensors onboard the Gray Eagle MQ-1C UAS, high-altitude platforms (including Micro High-Altitude Balloons (mHAB)), medium altitude manned systems, and unmanned stratospheric A-ISR systems. Funding in this budget line also supports, but is not limited to, emerging UAS sensor requirements such as Electro Optic/Infrared/Laser Designator (EO/IR/LD), Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), Hyper Spectral Imagery (HSI), and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). The Common Sensor Payload (CSP) is an EO/IR/LD sensor that provides an advanced state-of-the-art sensor suite that can be used to collect critical information across the visible and infrared portions of the electromagnetic spectrum for Battlefield Commanders. The CSP is required for MQ-1C Gray Eagle (GE) Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) operation and serves as the "eyes" of the UAS by providing high-definition imagery in day or night conditions for detection and classification of targets/threats. The CSP also provides a targeting capability for laser-guided munitions, to include air-to-ground AGM-114 Hellfire missiles. The Target Location Accuracy (TLA) capability inherent to CSP Version 3 (v3) enables precision, near-real time engagements with Coordinate Seeking Weapons (CSWs) by reducing the sensor-to-shooter process from minutes to seconds. Electronics Intelligence (ELINT) and Electronic Support Measures (ESM) capabilities provide high precision direction finding and geolocation with 360-degree instantaneous field of view coverage from the nose, tail, port, and starboard sides of the UAS. CSP is part of the Army Transformation Initiative. PM will inform Congress of any quantity changes between products in the next update.

Justification

Justification — FUTURE UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS (UAS) FAMILY

FY 2026 funding was transferred from Budget Activity (BA) 1, Future UAS Family to BA 6, I48000 FUTURE UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS (UAS) FAMILY in support of Agile Portfolio Management. This is not a new start. This funding is a realignment from: 1) A00510 Future Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System (FTUAS) / A00511 Air Launched Effects and A01311 Future Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System (TUAS) 2) A01002 UAS MODS / A00121 OSRVT MODS 3) A01001 MQ-1 Payload / A01005 CSP FMV Future Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Family is part of the Army Transformation Initiative. PM will inform Congress of any quantity changes between products in the next update. 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
Aircraft Procurement, Army	A	FY26 Disc. Request	$118.5M
Aircraft Procurement, Army	A	FY26 Total	$118.5M

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	FY26 Base	FY26 Request
Program Element	$85.0M	$118.5M

Follow the dollar

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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

Showing 25 of 66 from the Senate LDA disclosure database.

BOEING COMPANYUNMANNED|AERIAL2026matched 2+ title words

H.R.4213 - Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026. H.R.7147 - Further Additional Continuing…

FUTURE UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS (UAS) FAMILY

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Description — FUTURE UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS (UAS) FAMILY

Justification — FUTURE UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS (UAS) FAMILY