Future UAS Family

Future UAS Family under the Army's Aircraft Procurement budget activity, aims to develop and procure the Future Unmanned Aircraft System (FUAS) to enhance the Army's cross-domain capabilities. The program seeks to provide ground-based forces with the ability to project power into other domains, defeat highly capable enemies, secure terrain, and consolidate gains. It encompasses an array of capabilities from platoon soldiers to Division Commanders and includes requirements for Future Tactical UAS (FTUAS), Air Launched Effects (ALE), and Scalable Control Interface (SCI). The program also focuses on replacing the RQ-7Bv2 Shadow assets within the Brigade Combat Teams with a new system that emphasizes rapid deployability, expeditionary maneuver, and mobility for adaptive and agile operations.

The specific objectives of the program include developing and procuring the FTUAS for Brigade Combat Teams and ALE to extend tactical and operational reach, lethality, and protection to the advanced team. The FTUAS will consist of an aircraft subsystem including airframe, propulsion, avionics, communications, navigation, software systems, ground support equipment, and required engineering, logistics, and programmatic support. ALE will serve as an attritable or optionally recoverable aerial capability that detects, identifies, locates, and reports threats; represents a credible decoy; disrupts threat communication; targeting and acquisition systems; and delivers lethal and non-lethal effects against those threats across cross-domain capabilities. The program aims to achieve these objectives by following requirements from approved Capability Development Documents (CDD) signed by the Army Requirements Oversight Council (AROC).