PIT Priorities

To maintain operational tempo, reduce Soldier risk, and preserve overmatch, the U.S. Army requires integrated, modernized, and autonomous solutions to increase survivability, enhance sustainment, and extend operational reach across all domains.

Addressing Army Warfighting Gaps

The U.S. Army faces increasingly complex challenges across diverse operational environments, including breaching operations, distributed logistics, expeditionary power requirements, and extreme Arctic terrains. Current capabilities constrain protected maneuver, autonomous sustainment, energy resilience, and mobility in austere conditions.

All Arms Maneuver
Inability to expand combined arms operational reach through endurance and lethality to exploit all-domain maneuver, both manned and unmanned.
Command and Control (C2) and Counter C2
Network
Insufficient secure reliable, and survivable communications architectures.
Command and Control
C2 Overmatch: Lack of integrated mobile C2 systems and processes to manage data and information supporting shared understanding for effective and timely multi-domain decision making.
Counter C2: Lack ability to deny/defeat/mislead persistent threats in all-domain Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance/observation/targeting.
Network & Command Post (CP) Survivability
Insufficient resiliency of CP and systems infrastructure.
Information Advantage
Lack ability to seize, retain and exploit an advantage over adversaries and enemies in information, cyberspace and the electromagnetic spectrum.
Battlefield Visibility & C2 Overmatch
Insufficient deep-sensing capabilities providing persistent multi-domain battlefield visibility.
Formation Based Layer Protection
Force Preparation & Protecting the Force
Inability to maintain a sufficient state of readiness for rapid transition to conflict in all domains.
Limited ability to protect themselves and other dispersed forces in all operational areas to include the ability to blend in with surroundings.
Adaptive Sustainment
Inter & Intra-Theater Lift
Intra-Theater Lift: Insufficient multi-domain ability to move units, personnel, cargo, material within the area of responsibility (AOR) or joint operations area (JOA) to the point of need.
Inter-Theater Lift: Limited multi-domain ability to rapidly transport forces, supplies, and/or casualties from the homeland to joint operations areas or points of need.
Conduct Equipment Repair Operations
Maintenance Operations: Limited ability to maintain, repair, fabricate, and recover/reconstitute equipment in all domains for prolonged durations.
Expeditionary Power
Supply Operations: Limited ability for conducting rapid supply (all classes of supply, energy, etc.) field services, and logistics operations for prolonged durations.
Mass Casualty Treatment & Soldier Support
Mass Casualty: Limited ability to provide/receive health services during large scale combat operations inside and outside of the AOR/JOA.
Soldier Support Operations: Limited ability to provide/receive personnel services to Soldiers, both living and deceased to include financial and spiritual during prolonged durations.
Cross Domain Fires
Deliberate & Dynamic Targeting
Inability to utilize pre-planned targeting and to rapidly exploit time sensitive opportunities for converging delivery of combined Joint/Multi-national lethal/non-lethal fires.
Cross-Domains Fire Delivery
Army formations (at echelon) lack sufficient capability to synchronize employment of both kinetic (Fires) and non-kinetic (Cyber/Electronic Warfare) effectors in all operational domains to achieve desired effects for Foreign Object Elimination.
Defend Airspace & Space Operations
Defend Airspace: Limited ability to protect/defend airspace from manned and un-manned aerial systems and advanced cruise/ballistic missiles for extended durations.
Space Operations: Limited access and control of non-interrupted protected assets in the contested space domain.

PIT Priority Mission Threads Aligned with Warfighting Gaps (FY26–27)

PIT harnesses Soldier-driven innovation to close critical warfighting gaps by developing and delivering transformative capabilities aligned with Army priorities. Below are PIT’s priority focus areas, funding allocations for FY26, and projected 4-Year Market Value of ~$2B* aligned with modernizing the U.S. Army’s capabilities to achieve operational effectiveness.

Off-road military vehicle
$30M Invested

Autonomous

Breaching

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Soldiers holding drone
$30M Invested

Tactical Logistics

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Soldier controlling Drone
$30M Invested

Expeditionary Power

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Soldier on Snowmobile
$15M Invested

Arctic Operations

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Disclaimer: The 4-Year Market Value represents the combined projected value across several Programs of Record (PORs), inclusive of funding from FY26–30 and may encompass additional resourcing outside individual PIT initiatives.

$30M Invested

Autonomous Breaching

Control vehicles with armored systems
Sustain air and ground obscuration for mission duration
Enable integrated networks to streamline breaching operations
Deliver munitions autonomously
Equip mounted volcano capabilities to operational units
Accelerate protected lane proofing and marking processes
$30M Invested

Tactical Logistics

Automate distant resupply and minimize Soldier exposure
Empower brigade-level logistics system modernization
Deploy unmanned casualty evacuation platforms
Deliver autonomous resupply capabilities for distributed operations
$30M Invested

Expeditionary Power

Generate energy for Mobile Brigade Combat Teams (MBCT) independently
Design scalable energy distribution networks without lift-heavy solutions
Lower the physical and auditory signature while reducing reliance on fuel resupply
Standardize energy forecasting tools across units and echelons
$15M Invested

Arctic Operations

Develop lightweight systems to enable over-snow mobility for fire support
Equip MBCTs with the ability to recover air-dropped supplies autonomously
Provide solutions for hot food, potable water creation, and mobile arctic sustainment systems

Army PIT Priorities of Work

The U.S. Army PIT Priorities of Work are deliberately aligned to the Army’s identified warfighting gaps, ensuring our efforts address the most pressing capability needs. By focusing on modernization areas with the greatest operational impact, we accelerate solutions that enhance readiness and overmatch.

All Arms Maneuver

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Soldier with controlling drone

Command and Control (C2) and Counter C2

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Military vehicle camouflaged

Formation Based Layer Protection

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Military Hardware

Adaptive Sustainment 

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Loading Weapon

Cross Domain Fires

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All Arms Maneuver

Develop autonomous breaching and terrain-shaping capabilities for air and ground platforms, supporting operations with ICD (Overwatch)
Equip units with autonomous ground and air platforms to enhance Maneuver and Lethality during key operations like African Lion and Edge Strike: Ground.
Equip our units with robotic breaching capabilities to enable autonomous mass breaching operations.
Accelerate deployment of the Infantry Squad Vehicle-Mortar (81mm) Mortar-Scorpion system to meet Maneuver and Lethality needs.

Command and Control (C2) and Counter C2

Network
Provide a family of converged network transport, Position Navigation and Timing, and computing capabilities to meet operational demands.
Address the need for interoperable and autonomous Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems through Modular Open Systems Approach prototypes.
Command and Control
Enable airspace management and deconfliction for Portfolio Acquisition Executive Maneuver Air operations in support of 5 Combat Aviation Brigades.
Network & Command Post (CP) Survivability
Develop and prototype Next-Generation Command and Control capabilities to enable autonomous operational support and survivability.
Information Advantage
Equip the Multi-Domain Task Force with scalable components for electronic warfare operations to enhance mission agility and responsiveness.
Battlefield Visibility & C2 Overmatch
Address gaps in deep sensing and battlefield visualization by equipping units with artificial intelligence-enabled decision support prototypes

Formation Based Layer Protection

Force Preparation & Protecting the Force
Close force protection gaps by prototyping enhanced vehicle camouflage capabilities with ongoing development.

Adaptive Sustainment

Inter & Intra-Theater Lift
Develop autonomous forward arming and refueling prototypes to address gaps in operational reach and sustainment.
Conduct Equipment Repair Operations
Inject hybrid additive manufacturing and future power generation capabilities to enhance logistical repair capabilities.
Expeditionary Power
Equip units with advanced energy generation, storage, and distribution capabilities to support expeditionary operations and reduce logistical constraints when operating in austere environments.
Provide Command Posts with low-signature (audio and physical) power generation, storage, and distribution solutions to reduce risks associated with refueling logistical requirements and improve survivability against enemy detection.
Develop and deliver logistical coordination software solutions for Battalion Support Battalions through Combined Arms Support Command.
Mass Casualty Treatment & Soldier Support
Deliver autonomous triage and treatment capabilities, addressing mass casualty response gaps.
Equip units with Blast Over Pressure Monitor Systems to enhance diagnostics and care for blast-related injuries.

Cross Domain Fires

Deliberate & Dynamic Targeting
Address missile, rocket, and munitions efficiency gaps by prototyping containerized strike systems.
Expand cross-domain targeting capabilities by prototyping an advanced seeker and warhead system.
Cross-Domains Fire Delivery
Enable strategic strike capabilities by developing a platform-less, cross-domain strike prototype.
Defend Airspace & Space Operations
Protect critical airspace assets with autonomous air defense capabilities and by leveraging commercial hardware for our units.
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