Common Robotic System (Individual) (CRS(I))

Department of the Army PEO Combat Support and Combat Service Support established a Master IDIQ for Common Robotic System (Individual) on March 30, 2018, with a shared ceiling of $429.1 million, but ordering closed on July 30, 2025, and is no longer accepting new task orders. The vehicle procures backpack-transportable robotic systems comprising a mobility platform, mission-specific payloads, and an operator control unit (OCU) for detecting, identifying, and countering hazards across all mission types.

This vehicle is effectively spent. The combined task-order potential value across 11 awarded orders stands at $122.6 million, with $121.9 million obligated (99% utilization). The most recent task order was awarded on July 30, 2025, the same day ordering closed. Order velocity peaked in 2019–2020, with three orders each year, then declined sharply; only one order was issued in 2025. The vehicle has cycled through its engineering and manufacturing development phase, low-rate initial production, and into full-rate production over its seven-year life span.

Foster-Miller, Inc. dominates the vehicle entirely, holding 10 of 11 awards worth $104.8 million in combined potential value; Teledyne Flir Unmanned Ground Systems, Inc. holds the single remaining order valued at $17.8 million. Competition is nonexistent for new work given the vehicle is closed. All task orders are unrestricted (no set-aside designations). Funding concentrates heavily within the awarding component—PEO Combat Support and Combat Service Support issued 8 orders totaling $108.2 million—with the remaining 3 orders worth $14.4 million coming from the Army Materiel Command Contracting Command Detroit Arsenal.

Task orders reflect production execution: early orders for EMD and low-rate production of 11–251 systems (2019–2020), a major full-rate production order for 1,204 systems in 2021 ($62.9 million), and latterly software updates and component replenishment. Orders have used firm fixed price and cost-plus-fixed-fee structures. New business development activity on this vehicle is closed.

The Army PEO Combat Support and Combat Service Support has awarded a Master IDIQ for Common Robotic System (Individual) CRS(I). CRS(I) is a robotic systems made up of a mobility platform, payloads, and an Operator Control Unit (OCU). CRS(I) shall operate in all types of missions to detect, identify, and counter hazards by providing a common chassis (platform) for multiple mission payloads. CRS(I) is transportable via a backpack by Warfighters conducting dismounted operations.