Cargo Aerial Del & Personnel… (BLI 9140MA7804) · Army

What it is

Cargo Aerial Del & Personnel Parachute System (9140MA7804) is an Army procurement line funded in the Other Procurement, Army account.

What changed

+$14.9M FY25→26 P-1 TOA · PB2026

Who gets it

No single contractor is published as this line's leader. 3 linked award records are listed below. 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. Why the crosswalk is partial.

Budget figures

FY24 Actuals

$42.3MP-1 TOA · PB2026

FY25 Enacted

$46.3MP-1 TOA · PB2026

FY26 Request

$61.2MP-1 TOA · PB2026

FY25→26 Change

+$14.9MP-1 TOA · PB2026

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

The program's 3 summary figures for FY24 to FY26, plotted in fiscal-year order: this line ends higher 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	$42.3M
FY25	$46.3M
FY26	$61.2M

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

5 fiscal years of this program as published (FY2022–FY2026): 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	FY22	FY23	FY24	FY25	FY26
Actuals	$37.0M	$42.4M	$42.3M
Enacted	–	$42.4M	$45.8M	$46.3M
Request	–	–	$45.8M	$46.3M	$61.2M

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

Asked vs spent: the PB2024 book requested $45.8M for FY2024; the PB2026 book reported $42.3M as actual total obligation authority — $3.51M below the request. 42.3 − 45.8 = -3.5 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

Description — Cargo Aerial Del & Personnel Parachute Systems

The Advanced Tactical Parachute System (ATPS) is the Army's parachute system for personnel low-altitude static line Airborne Operations and consists of the T-11 (non-steerable) and the MC-6 (steerable) systems. The T-11 consists of an integrated harness, reserve parachute, and the T-11 main canopy for mass-tactical static line Airborne Operations. The total Army Acquisition Objective (AAO) of 43,708 has been procured and fielding was completed in FY 2015. The MC-6 consists of the same reserve and harness as the T-11 with the MC-6 main steerable canopy. The total MC-6 AAO of 25,649 has been procured and fielding was completed in FY 2014. -Parachutes provided to the field during the initial fielding of the MC-6 and T-11 are reaching the end of their service life and replacement systems are being procured to maintain unit mission readiness. Both the T-11 and MC-6 are Class VII items centrally funded and controlled, and as such, replacement systems are procured and fielded to operational units by the Project Manager through multiple award IDIQ (indefinite delivery indefinite quantity) contracts. - The RA-1 Parachute System replaced the legacy MC-4 Ram Air Parachute System with a multi-mission High Altitude Low Opening (HALO) and High Altitude High Opening (HAHO) standoff insertion capability as well as a high altitude static line deployed insertion capability. The RA-1 allows personnel to exit at altitudes between 3,500 ft and 35,000 ft Mean Sea Level (MSL) with a total jumper weight of 450 lbs. The total RA-1 AAO of 5,470 began in FY 2014 and was completed in FY 2022. -The Enhanced Electronic Automatic Activation Device (EEAAD) deploys the RA-1 reserve in the event of an emergency. The EEAAD is a required safety item for operating the RA-1 parachute. -The Military Altimeter (MA-1) provides accurate jumper altitude, improved durability and reliability and is a required safety item for high altitude insertion operations when using the RA-1 parachute. -Increase in unit cost for T-11 & MC-6: Contractors for both T-11 and MC-6 IDIQs requested and were awarded an Economic Price Adjustment in 2022 due to inflation. EPA pricing is accounted for in the adjusted stepladder pricing of each IDIQ contract for the life of each contract. -Joint Precision Airdrop System (JPADS) provides autonomous guidance of payloads dropped from altitudes up to 25,000 feet at increments of 2,000 (2K) and 10,000 (10K) pounds. JPADS allows precise delivery of critical supplies to the Warfighter on the ground while allowing aircraft delivering payloads to fly at significantly safer altitudes. The JPADS 2K V3 Upgrade provides daytime GPS-denied capability, and will be procured to replace JPADS V2s, which is required to maintain the JPADS cybersecurity Authorization to Operate. Users have identified required software upgrades for ongoing efforts in theater for the JPADS V3 Upgrade in order to successfully operate in the GPS-contested CENTCOM and PACOM. JPADS V4 capability will include a nighttime, all-weather GPS-denied capability which will be developed and procured for the JPADS fleet. The Long Range JPADS capabilities allows the system to fly hundreds of miles to deliver resupply in contested A2/AD environments. This line includes both 2K and 10K procurement. AAO for JPADS 2K systems is 1,445 and the AAO for 10K systems is 665.

Justification

Justification — Cargo Aerial Del & Personnel Parachute Systems

MA7801: FY 2026 Base Procurement dollars in the amount of $52.185 million supports the procurement quantities of Advanced Tactical Parachute System (4196). MA7806: FY 2026 Base Procurement dollars in the amount of $9.039 million supports the procurement of 450 V3 JPADS with daytime GPS-denied and to replace JPADS V2's, which is required to maintain the JPADS cybersecurity Authorization to Operate (ATO). In accordance with Section 1815 of the FY2008 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	$42.3M
Other Procurement, Army	A	FY25 Enacted	$46.3M
Other Procurement, Army	A	FY26 Disc. Request	$61.2M
Other Procurement, Army	A	FY26 Total	$61.2M

Exhibit P-1R

Account	Org	Type	Amount
Other Procurement, Army	A	FY24 Actuals	$2.71M
Other Procurement, Army	A	FY25 Enacted	$3.00M
Other Procurement, Army	A	FY 2026 request	$4.74M

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	$877.5M	$42.3M	$46.3M	$61.2M	$61.2M

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
AIRBORNE SYSTEMS NORTH AMERICA OF CA INC	W56HZV20D0076	high
AIRBORNE SYSTEMS NORTH AMERICA OF NJ INC.	W911QY15C0112	high
AIRBORNE SYSTEMS NORTH AMERICA OF NJ INC.	W911QY16D0051	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.