Army's $994M Counter-UAS Budget Breakdown

The US Army's FY27 counter-UAS budget request totals $994 million, up from $596 million enacted in FY26. The full request is all discretionary funding, a structural change from the FY26 mix of $336 million discretionary and $260 million mandatory. The request is partitioned across eight capability lines covering fixed and operational platforms, kinetic and non-kinetic effectors, individual-soldier defeat systems, brigade-and-below capability, and directed energy. The shape of that partition, more than the headline number, defines which vendors are structurally positioned for the next contracting cycle.