Military organizations worldwide are continuing to integrate uncrewed vehicles (UxV) into their operations at a growing rate. The United States (U.S.) Department of Defense (DoD) has funded the research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) and procurement of UxV for decades. Support for these systems and associated technologies continues with the DoD’s proposed budget for FY 2025.
The President’s Budget (PB) request is released each year and includes justification documents detailing the range of technologies that will be procured and developed with that budget. In FY 2025, the DoD requested an estimated $10.1 billion to support uncrewed vehicle acquisition and development which represents an approximately one billion dollar increase from the amount enacted in the previous fiscal year. Since 2013, AUVSI has been tracking and summarizing the DoD’s budget for our members and the uncrewed vehicle community, enabling those involved in this market to make better business decisions as they position for contracts and future opportunities.
In support of that effort, AUVSI has released a written report in our 2024 Uncrewed Insights Volume 2 publication. AUVSI’s Uncrewed Insight publication can be accessed here. You can also review past written reports on the DoD’s budget here.
FY 2025 Tableau Report – Interactive Visualizations
We are pleased to offer our community unprecedented access to the data supporting our written reports to explore the data for all uncrewed programs of record as we track funding throughout the appropriations process — from the President’s proposed budget, through the House and Senate versions of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), to final appropriations (the final NDAA and appropriations are still pending and will be added once finalized).
The Tableau workbook provides a set of interactive visualizations that represent RDT&E and procurement investments in uncrewed systems for FY 2025 as well as prior years. This resource offers the ability to filter information by categories like domain, technologies, and the DoD organization requesting funding which allows users to conduct granular investigations based on individual topics of interest.
The cost to gain access to this tool is as follows:
| Self Service | Custom Consulting | |
|---|---|---|
| AUVSI Organizational Member | $1,650 | $3,600 |
| Non-Member | $2,750 | $5,250 |
Across all domains (air, ground, maritime, counter-UxV), approximately 330 RDT&E programs (broken down into 1,400+ sub-projects) and more than 180 procurement programs (accounting for nearly 1,150+ cost elements) have been captured in this resource. A quick introduction for each section is provided along with a description for each dashboard in the Tableau workbook overview linked below.
