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Soldier Lethality Advanced Technology
Budget Figures
FY2026 award data is a partial year — USASpending awards are reported on a rolling basis and the fiscal year does not close until September 30. why partial FY2026 data? →
- FY24
- $126.0M
- FY25
- $98.0M
- FY26
- $95.2M
● actuals (line) · ○ enacted · ◇ request — gaps are editions the program is absent from, never interpolated.
| Series | FY18 | FY19 | FY20 | FY21 | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actuals | $0 | $0 | $131.1M | $154.2M | $148.5M | $150.0M | $126.0M | ||
| Enacted | – | $0 | $136.0M | $151.4M | $152.4M | $154.6M | $102.8M | $98.0M | |
| Request | – | – | $118.5M | $109.6M | $108.0M | $100.9M | $102.8M | $94.9M | $95.2M |
blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.
Asked vs spent: the PB2023 book requested $100.9M for FY2023; the PB2025 book reports $150.0M actually spent — $49.1M above the request.
Program Lineage
No predecessor/successor lineage was recorded for this program element — no FY-to-FY transfer into or out of this line was stated in the ingested J-books, and none was inferred from the program structure.
Description
Mission — Soldier Signature Management Advanced Technology
This Project optimizes, matures and demonstrates advances in novel materials, technologies, techniques, and applications increasing the capabilities of camouflage, concealment, and deception against known and emerging sensor threats. These technologies will produce proof of concept systems that decrease the probability of detection and targeting by peer and near-peer adversaries, enabling freedom of movement of semi-independent and dispersed formations, and increase protection of high-valued assets. This Project will demonstrate disruptive Camouflage, Concealment and Deception technologies, supporting expeditionary maneuver in the Multi- Domain Battle Environment to open and retain windows of advantage. Research in this Project supports key Army needs and leverages/complements the technical research of several Program Elements (PEs) and Projects to include PE 0602143A (Soldier Lethality Technology) / BB4 (Dismounted Soldier Survivability Materials), Project AZ5 (Soldier Protection Technology - Vulnerability), Project AZ9 (Soldier Protection Advanced Tech - Detectability); PE 0601102A (Defense Research Sciences; and PE 0602145A (Next Generation Combat Vehicle Technology) / Project BI2 (Sensor Protection Technology). The cited research is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Soldier Center (SC).
Mission — Dismounted Soldier Survivability Equip/Tech Integ
This Project matures and demonstrates Soldier survivability materials and technologies to increase the speed and efficiency of dismounted Soldier movement and maneuver. This Project matures and demonstrates body armor weight reductions and improves the performance of personal protection and survivability equipment. This project optimizes, matures and demonstrates advances in novel materials, technologies, techniques, and applications increasing the capabilities of camouflage, concealment, and deception against known and emerging sensor threats. This Project focuses on reducing Soldier-worn equipment weight, improving Soldier and system integration and reducing the dismounted Soldier's detectability, susceptibility, and vulnerability to operational threats. Operational threats are characterized as combat threats (e.g., flame and thermal, blast and ballistic, multispectral sensors, and laser threats), environmental threats (e.g., cold, heat, wet, vector, water contamination, concealment, etc.), and Soldier system components and system limitations (e.g., size, weight, and bulk). This Project includes the demonstration and validation of integrated technologies, novel subsystems/ systems, and test methods. This Project complements work done in Program Element (PE) 0602143A (Soldier Lethality Technology) / Project BB4 (Dismounted Soldier Survivability Materials). The cited research is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Soldier Center (SC).
Mission — Soldier Centric Advanced Technology
This Project matures and demonstrates an optimized training systems to enable effective training and provide increased levels of Soldier proficiency and readiness. This Project matures and demonstrates Soldier centric technologies for the Soldier/Squad virtual environment to support the Army's Synthetic Training Environment (STE). The STE is the next generation holistic collective training capability that will train units where they will fight, with whom they will fight with, and in complex operational environments to include dense urban and sub-terrain; within the entire range of combined arms maneuver tasks in support of Multi-Domain Operations. The Soldier/Squad virtual environment combines and integrates several individual Soldier and Squad training capabilities, STE Squad Capability (SSC), Weapon Skill Development (WSD), Joint Fires Training (JFT), and Use of Force (UoF), into a single capability that can be conducted simultaneously or individually and enable physical movement/exertion related to the execution of Soldier/Marine individual and Squad collective training tasks. The STE will provide the realistic repetitions necessary to fight 25 bloodless battles before the first battle. The cited research is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Soldier Center (SC).
Mission — Human Performance AdvTech for Mobility & Lethality
This Project matures technologies, methodologies, and human performance models to demonstrate increased mobility and lethality of the individual and small unit to achieve overmatch and offset vulnerabilities of maneuvering infantry. It validates and integrates human performance assessment methods and algorithms into training/education, test and evaluation methodologies, and materiel solutions to optimize the Soldier as a weapons system and the small unit as an integration combat platform. These methods and algorithms have potential to enable the development of doctrine, organization, training, materiel, leadership and education, personnel and facilities (DOTMLPF) improvements and efficiencies. This Project also uses Soldier assessments to iteratively improve the performance and integration of technologies to augment Soldier function (e.g. shoot, move, perceive, decide, and communicate) during distributed operations utilizing cross-domain capabilities. This Project also complements and is fully coordinated with work performed across Army, Navy, and Air Force under the Human Systems Community of Interest: Systems Interfaces & Cognitive Processes and Protection, Sustainment, and Warfighter Performance. This Project supports key Army needs and complements the technical research of Program Element (PE) 0602143A (Soldier Lethality Technology)/Project BC2 (Next Gen Mobility & Lethality Tech for Warfighters). This research is in partnership with Forces Command (FORSCOM) operational units and the appropriate Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) organizations as well as established transition partners, including Program Executive Office-Soldier (PEO-S). The cited research is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas, the Close Combat Lethality Task Force, and the Army modernization strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Soldier Center (SC).
Mission — Training Advanced Technology (Other than STE)
This Project matures and demonstrates advanced training technologies in support of the Army's need for simulations that accurately replicate and realistically represent the effects of current and future weapons systems during live and synthetic training. Integration of the live and synthetic environments into a single synthetic training environment will modernize the current Live Training Environment and allow fair fight engagements across all training environments and training devices. This Project complements work done in Program Element (PE) 0602143A (Soldier Lethality Technology) / Project BC7 (Training Technology (Other than STE) and Program Element (PE) 0603118A (Soldier Lethality Advanced Technology) / Project BE9 STE Advanced Technology. The cited research is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Soldier Center (SC).
Mission — Body Armor & Integrated Headborne Advanced Tech
This Project matures and demonstrates body armor weight reductions and improves the performance of personal protection and survivability equipment. It also demonstrates combat helmet ballistic, blast, and small arms protection performance enhancements and the integration and optimization of power, energy, and digital sensor and display headborne technologies. This Project supports Force Protection capability demonstrations for Soldiers and Small Units and demonstrated technologies from this effort transition to various Program Executive Office (PEO) Soldier programs. This Project complements work done in Program Element (PE) 0602143A (Soldier Lethality Technology) / AZ2 (Body Armor & Integrated Headborne Technology). The cited research is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Soldier Center (SC).
Mission — Small Arms Fire Control Advanced Technology
This Project matures and demonstrates fire control and targeting sensor technologies and techniques to improve targeting and lethality in order to maintain overmatch at longer ranges in all operational environments and to meet the capability needs of Army Science and Technology Soldier Lethality, Next Generation Combat Vehicle, and Long-Range Precision Fires modernization priorities. Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0602143A (Soldier Lethality Technology) / AY8 (Small Arms Fire Control Technology). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Armaments Center (AC).
Mission — Soldier Lethality Advanced Technology
This Program Element (PE) matures and demonstrates Soldier Lethality technologies that improve Soldier operational performance by increasing lethality, mobility, protection, and optimizing situational awareness across the spectrum of operating environments and missions. This PE matures Soldier weapons and enabling components / subsystems, demonstrates lethal weapons systems with potential to provide greater lethality, target acquisition, fire control, and range at a significantly reduced weight for optimized Soldier and Small Unit system performance. The major focus areas for Soldier Lethality Science and Technology are Soldier weapons and ammunition technologies, protection technologies, cognitive and physical performance measures, training in synthetic training environments, and mission support capabilities such as situational awareness sensors and displays, dismounted power and energy technologies, and Soldier and Small Unit sustainment capabilities. This technology diverse PE also matures and demonstrates sensor technologies that increase Warfighter situational understanding, survivability, and lethality by providing sensor capabilities to acquire and engage all targets and threats at longer ranges in complex environments and operational conditions (e.g. day/night, obscured, smoke, adverse weather, and other degraded visual environments), and for advancing live training technologies that accurately replicate and realistically represent the effects of current and future weapons systems during force-on-force and force-on-target training. This PE matures and demonstrates effective technology in personal combat clothing, protective equipment such as personal armor, helmets, and eyewear, combat rations, shelters, logistical support items for aerial delivery of personnel and cargo, and energy systems to power current and emerging Soldier-born Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR), sensor, optical, and communication systems with the least weight and sustainment burden on the Soldiers and Small Combat Units. This PE also matures and demonstrates technologies supporting the Army's Synthetic Training Environment (STE), a single, interconnected synthetic training system that will enable Army units and leaders to conduct realistic multi-echelon / multi-domain combined arms maneuver and mission command training, increasing proficiency through repetition. A specific research thrust area is applying systems-based practices to mature and demonstrate scientific and tailored knowledge of Soldiers' physical and cognitive architecture to facilitate rapid and efficient designs, assessments and trade-off analyses of technology insertions on the Soldier. Significant science and technology (S&T) investments are directed to improve the effectiveness of the technologies a Soldier utilizes while reducing the size and weight of the form factor of the equipment. Research in this PE complements PE 0602143A (Soldier Lethality Technology). The FY 2026 request was reduced by $3.181 million for Advisory and Assistance Services to promote efficiencies and advance the policies of the Administration in alignment with Executive Order 14222, "Implementing the President's Department of Government Efficiency Cost Efficiency Initiative." The FY 2026 request was reduced by $0.568 million for civilian personnel to optimize the workforce in compliance with Executive Order 14210, "Implementing the President's Department of Government Efficiency Workforce Optimization Initiative."
Mission — Soldier Squad Small Arms Armaments Advanced Tech
This Project demonstrates individual and crew-served weapon designs and technologies that enhance the fighting capabilities and survivability of the dismounted Warfighter in support of the Army's Soldier Lethality Modernization priority and all of the Services. This Project matures blast overpressure characterization, monitoring and a wearable system that captures real-time physiological and blast exposure data to enable integrated Soldier monitoring in operational environments. All work is led by the Joint Service Small Arms Program (JSSAP) and is based upon the Joint Service Small Arms Master Plan (JSSAMP) and the Joint Capabilities Integration Development System's Small Arms Analyses. Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0602143A (Soldier Lethality Technology) / AY6 (Soldier Squad Small Arms Armaments Technology). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Armaments Center (AC).
Mission — STE Advanced Technology
This Project matures and demonstrates technologies supporting the Army's Synthetic Training Environment (STE). The STE is the next generation holistic collective training capability that will train units where they will fight, with whom they will fight with, and in complex operational environments to include dense urban and sub- terrain; within the entire range of combined arms maneuver tasks in support of Multi- Domain Operations. STE Information Systems (STE-IS) delivers the Common Synthetic Environment consisting of Global Terrain/One World Terrain (OWT), Training Simulation Software (TSS), and Training Management Tools (TMT). The STE will be available where training occurs (home station, combat training centers, armories, institutions, shipboard, deployed) and will include Air and Ground Reconfigurable Virtual Collective Trainers (RVCTs), a Soldier/Squad Virtual Training (S/SVT), and a live training capability. The STE will be cloud-enabled, compatible with the Army Enterprise Network, and service-based through the Common Operating Environment, including Live and Constructive. The STE will provide the realistic repetitions necessary to fight 25 bloodless battles before the first battle. The cited research is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas, the Army modernization strategy, and supports the STE Cross Functional Team efforts. Work in this Project is performed by the Soldier Center (SC).
Mission — Personnel & Airdrop Safety Advanced Technology
This Project matures and demonstrates equipment and innovative techniques for precision aerial delivery of cargo and personnel. Technologies support Army Modernization Priority, Soldier Lethality. Aerial delivery is a key capability for rapid force projection and global precision delivery to support the mission readiness profile for Global Response Force (GRF). These efforts are designed to advance state of the art precision delivery technologies such as parachutes; guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) components and subsystems; tracking sensors; software algorithms; and safety rigging that integrates with currently equipped aircraft, unmanned aerial systems (UAS), and advanced rotary wing aircraft. These efforts provide the Warfighter with highly accurate, timely cargo/payload delivery and resupply in all terrain and weather conditions. Precision delivery/resupply reduces vulnerability of ground Soldiers, aircraft, and aircrew. Precision aerial delivery supports remote warfare with activities such as placement of battlefield sensors and reduction of Soldier load. Research in this Project supports key Army needs and complements the technical research in Program Element (PE) 0602143A (Soldier Lethality Technology) / Project BR9 (Personnel & Airdrop Safety Technology). This Project also complements research done in the Science & Technology Precision, Navigation and Timing Modernization priority. The cited research is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Research work in this Project is performed by the Soldier Center (SC).
Mission — Joint Service Combat Feeding Advanced Technology
This Project matures and demonstrates combat ration and field feeding technologies to optimize Warfighter performance, decrease the risk of exposure to chemical and biological contaminants in foods, and reduce the logistics burden to enable semi-independent operations. The Army serves as the Executive Agent for this Department of Defense (DoD) program, with oversight and coordination provided by the DoD Combat Feeding Research and Engineering Board. This Project matures and demonstrates research done in Program Element (PE) 0602143A (Soldier Lethality Technology) / Project BE3 (Joint Service Combat Feeding Technology). The cited research is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Research work in this Project is performed by the Soldier Center (SC).
Mission — Soldier & Sm Unit Tactical Energy AdvTech
This Project will demonstrate advanced Power and Energy (P&E) technologies for the dismounted Soldier to lighten equipment load, reduce resupply need, and enhance mobility. This Project will conduct Soldier and Small Unit power and energy technology maturation, integration with clothing and individual equipment, technical analysis, and operational assessment. Work in this Project complements several Program Elements (PEs) to include PE 0603118A (Soldier Lethality Advanced Technology) / Project BD7 (Soldier Sys Interfaces/ Integration Adv Tech), Project BD8 (Soldier & Small Unit Tactical Energy Tech), and PE 0603118A (Soldier Lethality Advanced Technology) / Project BC9 (Adv Soldier Sensors/Displays Adv Tech for Dismounts). The cited research is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Research in this Project is performed by the Soldier Center and the Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center.
Mission — Soldier Sys Interfaces/Integration-Sensor AdvTech
This Project will integrate and mature technologies for sensing, processing, displaying information, interfacing with users, and cognitive improvement to enhance Soldier & Small Unit situational awareness & understanding. This Project will integrate and demonstrate battlefield, body-worn sensors, and data fusion algorithms to provide the dismounted Small Unit leader with clear, actionable information for making well informed, rapid, tactical decisions over long duration in extreme conditions. This Project will also mature and integrate advanced dismounted Soldier robotic and autonomous systems technologies to demonstrate autonomous navigation, manned-unmanned teaming, and networked reconnaissance to improve Soldier lethality, situational awareness, and survivability during tactical operations in extreme conditions. Research in this Project complements several Program Elements (PEs) and Projects to include PE 0602143A (Soldier Lethality Technology) / BD6 (Soldier Sys Interfaces/Integration - Sensor Tech), PE 0603118A (Soldier Lethality Advanced Technology) / Project BC1 (Human Performance AdvTech for Mobility & Lethality) and Project BC9 (Adv Soldier Sensors/Displays AdvTech for Dismounts). The cited research is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Research in this Project is performed by the Soldier Center (SC).
Mission — Adv Soldier Sensors/Displays AdvTech for Dismounts
This Project matures, optimizes, and demonstrates fully digital sensor systems, architectures, and interfacing capabilities to fuse sensors, and network situational understanding information and targeting capabilities to enable maintained mounted and dismounted visual advantage, increased situational awareness, decreased fratricide, and decreased response times to all threats in all environments. Research in this Project supports the Army Science and Technology Soldier Lethality, Next Generation Combat Vehicle, and Future Vertical Lift Army Modernization priorities. This Project complements work done in Program Element (PE) 0602143A (Soldier Lethality Technology) / BD1 (Advanced Soldier Sensors/Displays Tech for Dismounts). The cited research is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Command, Control, Communication, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center.
Mission — Soldier Lethality Advanced Technology
Congressional Interest Item funding provided for Soldier Lethality Advanced Technology. The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy.
Mission — Soldier Lethality Advanced Technology
This Program Element (PE) matures and demonstrates Soldier Lethality technologies that improve Soldier operational performance by increasing lethality, mobility, protection, and optimizing situational awareness across the spectrum of operating environments and missions. This PE matures Soldier weapons and enabling components / subsystems, demonstrates lethal weapons systems with potential to provide greater lethality, target acquisition, fire control, and range at a significantly reduced weight for optimized Soldier and Small Unit system performance. The major focus areas for Soldier Lethality Science and Technology are Soldier weapons and ammunition technologies, protection technologies, cognitive and physical performance measures, training in synthetic training environments, and mission support capabilities such as situational awareness sensors and displays, dismounted power and energy technologies, and Soldier and Small Unit sustainment capabilities. This technology diverse PE also matures and demonstrates sensor technologies that increase Warfighter situational understanding, survivability, and lethality by providing sensor capabilities to acquire and engage all targets and threats at longer ranges in complex environments and operational conditions (e.g. day/night, obscured, smoke, adverse weather, and other degraded visual environments), and for advancing live training technologies that accurately replicate and realistically represent the effects of current and future weapons systems during force-on-force and force-on-target training. This PE matures and demonstrates effective technology in personal combat clothing, protective equipment such as personal armor, helmets, and eyewear, combat rations, shelters, logistical support items for aerial delivery of personnel and cargo, and energy systems to power current and emerging Soldier-born Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR), sensor, optical, and communication systems with the least weight and sustainment burden on the Soldiers and Small Combat Units. This PE also matures and demonstrates technologies supporting the Army's Synthetic Training Environment (STE), a single, interconnected synthetic training system that will enable Army units and leaders to conduct realistic multi-echelon / multi-domain combined arms maneuver and mission command training, increasing proficiency through repetition. A specific research thrust area is applying systems-based practices to mature and demonstrate scientific and tailored knowledge of Soldiers' physical and cognitive architecture to facilitate rapid and efficient designs, assessments and trade-off analyses of technology insertions on the Soldier. Significant science and technology (S&T) investments are directed to improve the effectiveness of the technologies a Soldier utilizes while reducing the size and weight of the form factor of the equipment. Research in this PE complements PE 0602143A (Soldier Lethality Technology). The FY 2026 request was reduced by $3.181 million for Advisory and Assistance Services to promote efficiencies and advance the policies of the Administration in alignment with Executive Order 14222, "Implementing the President's Department of Government Efficiency Cost Efficiency Initiative." The FY 2026 request was reduced by $0.568 million for civilian personnel to optimize the workforce in compliance with Executive Order 14210, "Implementing the President's Department of Government Efficiency Workforce Optimization Initiative."
Mission — Body Armor & Integrated Headborne Advanced Tech
This Project matures and demonstrates body armor weight reductions and improves the performance of personal protection and survivability equipment. It also demonstrates combat helmet ballistic, blast, and small arms protection performance enhancements and the integration and optimization of power, energy, and digital sensor and display headborne technologies. This Project supports Force Protection capability demonstrations for Soldiers and Small Units and demonstrated technologies from this effort transition to various Program Executive Office (PEO) Soldier programs. This Project complements work done in Program Element (PE) 0602143A (Soldier Lethality Technology) / AZ2 (Body Armor & Integrated Headborne Technology). The cited research is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Soldier Center (SC).
Mission — Soldier Squad Small Arms Armaments Advanced Tech
This Project demonstrates individual and crew-served weapon designs and technologies that enhance the fighting capabilities and survivability of the dismounted Warfighter in support of the Army's Soldier Lethality Modernization priority and all of the Services. This Project matures blast overpressure characterization, monitoring and a wearable system that captures real-time physiological and blast exposure data to enable integrated Soldier monitoring in operational environments. All work is led by the Joint Service Small Arms Program (JSSAP) and is based upon the Joint Service Small Arms Master Plan (JSSAMP) and the Joint Capabilities Integration Development System's Small Arms Analyses. Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0602143A (Soldier Lethality Technology) / AY6 (Soldier Squad Small Arms Armaments Technology). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Armaments Center (AC).
Mission — Small Arms Fire Control Advanced Technology
This Project matures and demonstrates fire control and targeting sensor technologies and techniques to improve targeting and lethality in order to maintain overmatch at longer ranges in all operational environments and to meet the capability needs of Army Science and Technology Soldier Lethality, Next Generation Combat Vehicle, and Long-Range Precision Fires modernization priorities. Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0602143A (Soldier Lethality Technology) / AY8 (Small Arms Fire Control Technology). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Armaments Center (AC).
Mission — Soldier Signature Management Advanced Technology
This Project optimizes, matures and demonstrates advances in novel materials, technologies, techniques, and applications increasing the capabilities of camouflage, concealment, and deception against known and emerging sensor threats. These technologies will produce proof of concept systems that decrease the probability of detection and targeting by peer and near-peer adversaries, enabling freedom of movement of semi-independent and dispersed formations, and increase protection of high-valued assets. This Project will demonstrate disruptive Camouflage, Concealment and Deception technologies, supporting expeditionary maneuver in the Multi- Domain Battle Environment to open and retain windows of advantage. Research in this Project supports key Army needs and leverages/complements the technical research of several Program Elements (PEs) and Projects to include PE 0602143A (Soldier Lethality Technology) / BB4 (Dismounted Soldier Survivability Materials), Project AZ5 (Soldier Protection Technology - Vulnerability), Project AZ9 (Soldier Protection Advanced Tech - Detectability); PE 0601102A (Defense Research Sciences; and PE 0602145A (Next Generation Combat Vehicle Technology) / Project BI2 (Sensor Protection Technology). The cited research is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Soldier Center (SC).
Mission — Dismounted Soldier Survivability Equip/Tech Integ
This Project matures and demonstrates Soldier survivability materials and technologies to increase the speed and efficiency of dismounted Soldier movement and maneuver. This Project matures and demonstrates body armor weight reductions and improves the performance of personal protection and survivability equipment. This project optimizes, matures and demonstrates advances in novel materials, technologies, techniques, and applications increasing the capabilities of camouflage, concealment, and deception against known and emerging sensor threats. This Project focuses on reducing Soldier-worn equipment weight, improving Soldier and system integration and reducing the dismounted Soldier's detectability, susceptibility, and vulnerability to operational threats. Operational threats are characterized as combat threats (e.g., flame and thermal, blast and ballistic, multispectral sensors, and laser threats), environmental threats (e.g., cold, heat, wet, vector, water contamination, concealment, etc.), and Soldier system components and system limitations (e.g., size, weight, and bulk). This Project includes the demonstration and validation of integrated technologies, novel subsystems/ systems, and test methods. This Project complements work done in Program Element (PE) 0602143A (Soldier Lethality Technology) / Project BB4 (Dismounted Soldier Survivability Materials). The cited research is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Soldier Center (SC).
Mission — Soldier Centric Advanced Technology
This Project matures and demonstrates an optimized training systems to enable effective training and provide increased levels of Soldier proficiency and readiness. This Project matures and demonstrates Soldier centric technologies for the Soldier/Squad virtual environment to support the Army's Synthetic Training Environment (STE). The STE is the next generation holistic collective training capability that will train units where they will fight, with whom they will fight with, and in complex operational environments to include dense urban and sub-terrain; within the entire range of combined arms maneuver tasks in support of Multi-Domain Operations. The Soldier/Squad virtual environment combines and integrates several individual Soldier and Squad training capabilities, STE Squad Capability (SSC), Weapon Skill Development (WSD), Joint Fires Training (JFT), and Use of Force (UoF), into a single capability that can be conducted simultaneously or individually and enable physical movement/exertion related to the execution of Soldier/Marine individual and Squad collective training tasks. The STE will provide the realistic repetitions necessary to fight 25 bloodless battles before the first battle. The cited research is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Soldier Center (SC).
Mission — Human Performance AdvTech for Mobility & Lethality
This Project matures technologies, methodologies, and human performance models to demonstrate increased mobility and lethality of the individual and small unit to achieve overmatch and offset vulnerabilities of maneuvering infantry. It validates and integrates human performance assessment methods and algorithms into training/education, test and evaluation methodologies, and materiel solutions to optimize the Soldier as a weapons system and the small unit as an integration combat platform. These methods and algorithms have potential to enable the development of doctrine, organization, training, materiel, leadership and education, personnel and facilities (DOTMLPF) improvements and efficiencies. This Project also uses Soldier assessments to iteratively improve the performance and integration of technologies to augment Soldier function (e.g. shoot, move, perceive, decide, and communicate) during distributed operations utilizing cross-domain capabilities. This Project also complements and is fully coordinated with work performed across Army, Navy, and Air Force under the Human Systems Community of Interest: Systems Interfaces & Cognitive Processes and Protection, Sustainment, and Warfighter Performance. This Project supports key Army needs and complements the technical research of Program Element (PE) 0602143A (Soldier Lethality Technology)/Project BC2 (Next Gen Mobility & Lethality Tech for Warfighters). This research is in partnership with Forces Command (FORSCOM) operational units and the appropriate Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) organizations as well as established transition partners, including Program Executive Office-Soldier (PEO-S). The cited research is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas, the Close Combat Lethality Task Force, and the Army modernization strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Soldier Center (SC).
Mission — Training Advanced Technology (Other than STE)
This Project matures and demonstrates advanced training technologies in support of the Army's need for simulations that accurately replicate and realistically represent the effects of current and future weapons systems during live and synthetic training. Integration of the live and synthetic environments into a single synthetic training environment will modernize the current Live Training Environment and allow fair fight engagements across all training environments and training devices. This Project complements work done in Program Element (PE) 0602143A (Soldier Lethality Technology) / Project BC7 (Training Technology (Other than STE) and Program Element (PE) 0603118A (Soldier Lethality Advanced Technology) / Project BE9 STE Advanced Technology. The cited research is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Soldier Center (SC).
Mission — Adv Soldier Sensors/Displays AdvTech for Dismounts
This Project matures, optimizes, and demonstrates fully digital sensor systems, architectures, and interfacing capabilities to fuse sensors, and network situational understanding information and targeting capabilities to enable maintained mounted and dismounted visual advantage, increased situational awareness, decreased fratricide, and decreased response times to all threats in all environments. Research in this Project supports the Army Science and Technology Soldier Lethality, Next Generation Combat Vehicle, and Future Vertical Lift Army Modernization priorities. This Project complements work done in Program Element (PE) 0602143A (Soldier Lethality Technology) / BD1 (Advanced Soldier Sensors/Displays Tech for Dismounts). The cited research is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Command, Control, Communication, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center.
Mission — Soldier Sys Interfaces/Integration-Sensor AdvTech
This Project will integrate and mature technologies for sensing, processing, displaying information, interfacing with users, and cognitive improvement to enhance Soldier & Small Unit situational awareness & understanding. This Project will integrate and demonstrate battlefield, body-worn sensors, and data fusion algorithms to provide the dismounted Small Unit leader with clear, actionable information for making well informed, rapid, tactical decisions over long duration in extreme conditions. This Project will also mature and integrate advanced dismounted Soldier robotic and autonomous systems technologies to demonstrate autonomous navigation, manned-unmanned teaming, and networked reconnaissance to improve Soldier lethality, situational awareness, and survivability during tactical operations in extreme conditions. Research in this Project complements several Program Elements (PEs) and Projects to include PE 0602143A (Soldier Lethality Technology) / BD6 (Soldier Sys Interfaces/Integration - Sensor Tech), PE 0603118A (Soldier Lethality Advanced Technology) / Project BC1 (Human Performance AdvTech for Mobility & Lethality) and Project BC9 (Adv Soldier Sensors/Displays AdvTech for Dismounts). The cited research is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Research in this Project is performed by the Soldier Center (SC).
Mission — STE Advanced Technology
This Project matures and demonstrates technologies supporting the Army's Synthetic Training Environment (STE). The STE is the next generation holistic collective training capability that will train units where they will fight, with whom they will fight with, and in complex operational environments to include dense urban and sub- terrain; within the entire range of combined arms maneuver tasks in support of Multi- Domain Operations. STE Information Systems (STE-IS) delivers the Common Synthetic Environment consisting of Global Terrain/One World Terrain (OWT), Training Simulation Software (TSS), and Training Management Tools (TMT). The STE will be available where training occurs (home station, combat training centers, armories, institutions, shipboard, deployed) and will include Air and Ground Reconfigurable Virtual Collective Trainers (RVCTs), a Soldier/Squad Virtual Training (S/SVT), and a live training capability. The STE will be cloud-enabled, compatible with the Army Enterprise Network, and service-based through the Common Operating Environment, including Live and Constructive. The STE will provide the realistic repetitions necessary to fight 25 bloodless battles before the first battle. The cited research is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas, the Army modernization strategy, and supports the STE Cross Functional Team efforts. Work in this Project is performed by the Soldier Center (SC).
Mission — Soldier Lethality Advanced Technology
Congressional Interest Item funding provided for Soldier Lethality Advanced Technology. The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy.
Mission — Personnel & Airdrop Safety Advanced Technology
This Project matures and demonstrates equipment and innovative techniques for precision aerial delivery of cargo and personnel. Technologies support Army Modernization Priority, Soldier Lethality. Aerial delivery is a key capability for rapid force projection and global precision delivery to support the mission readiness profile for Global Response Force (GRF). These efforts are designed to advance state of the art precision delivery technologies such as parachutes; guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) components and subsystems; tracking sensors; software algorithms; and safety rigging that integrates with currently equipped aircraft, unmanned aerial systems (UAS), and advanced rotary wing aircraft. These efforts provide the Warfighter with highly accurate, timely cargo/payload delivery and resupply in all terrain and weather conditions. Precision delivery/resupply reduces vulnerability of ground Soldiers, aircraft, and aircrew. Precision aerial delivery supports remote warfare with activities such as placement of battlefield sensors and reduction of Soldier load. Research in this Project supports key Army needs and complements the technical research in Program Element (PE) 0602143A (Soldier Lethality Technology) / Project BR9 (Personnel & Airdrop Safety Technology). This Project also complements research done in the Science & Technology Precision, Navigation and Timing Modernization priority. The cited research is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Research work in this Project is performed by the Soldier Center (SC).
Mission — Soldier & Sm Unit Tactical Energy AdvTech
This Project will demonstrate advanced Power and Energy (P&E) technologies for the dismounted Soldier to lighten equipment load, reduce resupply need, and enhance mobility. This Project will conduct Soldier and Small Unit power and energy technology maturation, integration with clothing and individual equipment, technical analysis, and operational assessment. Work in this Project complements several Program Elements (PEs) to include PE 0603118A (Soldier Lethality Advanced Technology) / Project BD7 (Soldier Sys Interfaces/ Integration Adv Tech), Project BD8 (Soldier & Small Unit Tactical Energy Tech), and PE 0603118A (Soldier Lethality Advanced Technology) / Project BC9 (Adv Soldier Sensors/Displays Adv Tech for Dismounts). The cited research is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Research in this Project is performed by the Soldier Center and the Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center.
Mission — Joint Service Combat Feeding Advanced Technology
This Project matures and demonstrates combat ration and field feeding technologies to optimize Warfighter performance, decrease the risk of exposure to chemical and biological contaminants in foods, and reduce the logistics burden to enable semi-independent operations. The Army serves as the Executive Agent for this Department of Defense (DoD) program, with oversight and coordination provided by the DoD Combat Feeding Research and Engineering Board. This Project matures and demonstrates research done in Program Element (PE) 0602143A (Soldier Lethality Technology) / Project BE3 (Joint Service Combat Feeding Technology). The cited research is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Research work in this Project is performed by the Soldier Center (SC).
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Accomplishments & Planned Programs (48)
Advanced Medical Training Technology
Included in this effort is the demonstration and maturation of new medical training simulations to train medical personnel across all levels of care resulting in improvements in haptic capabilities will with hyper bio-fidelity for all levels of care. It optimizes automated measures of student performance in support of Army medical Individual Critical Task Lists (ICTLs). It will demonstrate more realistic tissue properties supporting part-task trainers and modular patient simulator systems.
Soldier Camouflage, Concealment and Decoys Demonstration
This effort demonstrates innovative camouflage, concealment, and deception technologies for the dismounted Soldier to defeat advanced current and emerging adversary Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) threats and to reduce the probability of detection and identification across the electromagnetic spectrum. Matures physics-based models for material and system performance that support probability of detection metrics in the multi-domain operational environment, assisting to close the capability gap between current camouflage, concealment, and deception technologies and defeating enemy sensorial capabilities in future operating environments.
Dismounted Soldier Survivability Equipment and Technology Integration
This effort matures and integrates multifunctional protective materials, sub-components, and systems for field demonstrations to significantly increase the survivability of Soldiers through their multi-functional clothing and individual protective equipment. This effort also demonstrates and validates tradeoff analyses in sub-component and system-level designs of ballistic, blast, signature management and integrated protection clothing and equipment technologies.
STE Soldier/Squad Virtual Trainer
This effort matures and demonstrates a common battle drill squad-level mixed reality based system that allows for the rapid conduct and repetition of squad-level training. The training system will make it possible to conduct diverse, repeatable and effective training without extensive training infrastructure. This effort matures and demonstrates novel and realistic training environments that provide increased levels of proficiency and readiness through immersive training scenarios conducted at the point of need.
Operational Unit Partnership and Soldier Touch Point
This effort optimizes innovation through Science and Technology touch points with the Operational force, resulting in rapid iteration, concept maturation, integration, validation of laboratory findings, and transition of technologies and methodologies in response to operational unit demand signal. This effort streamlines demonstration, data collection, and technology maturation for near term DOTMLPF solutions, enabling faster delivery of materiel and non-materiel products/knowledge refined with direct Soldier input. This body of work allows validated, empirical, assessment of any equipment capability or training intervention as part of the Soldier architecture to inform future acquisition investments, training, and operational trade space decisions.
Soldier/Squad Performance Metrics for Lethality
This effort validates and matures technologies, methodologies, and human performance models to demonstrate increased Soldier and small unit mobility & lethality to achieve overmatch in maneuverability and tempo to degrade enemy targeting on the transparent battlefield. The effort validates and integrates human performance sensors, models, and design guidance into training/education, test and evaluation, and materiel. The results of this work will allow the Army to develop equipment, systems and training devices that maximize the close combat Soldier and small unit performancein multi-domain operations.
Advanced Processing Technologies for Live Training
This effort will improve technologies that reduce the computational burden, latency, and power consumption (battery weight) associated with training dismounted Soldiers in live training environments that leverage simulated tactical engagements. Such live training use-cases require virtual ballistic flyout calculations, casualty assessment, and visualization of terminal effects (e.g., munition impacts).
Synthetic Cyberspace Effects for Training
This effort matures, demonstrates, and validates a data exchange model for cyberspace effects and a brokering architecture to propagate those cyberspace effects across Live, Virtual and Constructive models and simulations within distributed training environments for collective training.
Advanced Simulation Management Technologies
Develop dynamic automation capability of advanced simulation architecture to enable automatic configuration of small, medium and large scale Live/Virtual/Constructive exercises.
Advanced Multi-Domain Environments for Training
This effort matures and demonstrates a new, common Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) competency framework to drive machine-supported training performance data collection, tracking and readiness projections for current and new MDO use-cases. This effort also validates emerging operational/training paradigms, including a detailed focus on modeling non-combat factors of operational environments and validates models necessary to train for Information Advantage.
Advanced Digital Terrain for LIve Training
This effort matures and demonstrates technologies to enhance the fidelity and visual effects of digital terrain for live training systems, with an objective metric of reducing overall training time to gain proficiency in the live environment. It addresses live training needs for conducting force-on-force, combined arms exercises to enhance readiness at Army home stations and Combat Training Centers by enhancing vertical terrain resolution, physics-based blast effects on terrain, and data compression technologies.
STE One World Terrain
This effort matures and demonstrates tools and methods that improve the speed, fidelity and delivery of synthetic terrain and environmental data needed to support mission rehearsal and training in a representation of the globe, fully accessible through the Army network and usable by all simulation trainers. This effort also matures and develops complex representations (including megacities and subterranean) of the operational environment and the Multi-Domain battlefield in synthetic training environments.
Small Arms Technology Demonstration
This effort matures and demonstrates advanced small arms ammunition, enablers, and weapon system technologies for integration into live fire demonstrations. It refines and optimizes weapon system integration and supports the Joint Warfighters' small arms capability needs. The effort validates small arms weapon system technology readiness levels and confidence of design functionality in advanced and emerging operating scenarios.
Medium Machinegun for Maneuvers (Mounted and Dismounted) Technology (M4DT)
This effort demonstrates feasibility of advanced small arms weapon, ammunition, enablers, and subsystem concepts by means of live-fire demonstrations and Soldier assessment. Mature small caliber gun system technologies to achieve infantry mobility needs and increase lethality.
STE Training Management Tool
This effort matures and demonstrates STE-relevant tools and technologies that automatically adapt training to the learner's skill level, conduct intelligent after action reviews, automate team training assessments, and enable the visualization of and interaction with a Mixed Reality Common Operating Picture of the battlespace.
Personnel & Airdrop Safety Advanced Technology
This effort matures and demonstrates parachute materials and designs, precision guidance, navigation software and hardware, tracking sensors, and safety devices to increase the accuracy of delivering cargo to remote locations and/or complex terrains in global positioning system (GPS) denied environments. This effort also provides technologies that increase safety during personnel insertions into theaters of operation. This effort supports capability demonstrations for mitigating the Army' s challenge of overburdened Soldiers through the use of tactical aerial resupply technologies, as well as supporting Anti-Access/Area Denial (A2/ AD) and manned-unmanned teaming (MUM-T) operational concepts by demonstrating airdrop from non-traditional platforms.
Joint Service Combat Feeding Advanced Technology Demonstration
This effort matures and demonstrates combat ration and field feeding technologies to optimize Warfighter performance, decrease risk of exposure to chemical and biological contaminants in foods, and reduce the logistics burden to enable semi-independent operations.
Supply Resiliency for Soldier Power
This effort addresses battery supply chain security issues by specifically addressing small battery standardization maturity for DoD applications to be more lethal in dismounted operations.
Dismounted Soldier Power and Energy
This effort matures, integrates, and demonstrates advanced Soldier P&E technologies that are used to power the dismounted Soldier and small unit's command and control, communications, computers, and sensor devices during tactical operations. This work will result in the Army being able to provide the power and energy the future Soldier requires to operate effectively, while doing so at a reduced physical burden.
Soldier Situational Awareness AdvTech
This effort will integrate battlefield and body-worn sensors and mature data-fusion algorithms to provide the dismounted Small Unit leader with clear, actionable information to make well informed, rapid, tactical decisions. This effort will mature and integrate advanced dismounted Soldier robotic and autonomous systems technologies to demonstrate autonomous navigation, manned-unmanned teaming, and networked reconnaissance to improve Soldier lethality, situational awareness, and survivability during tactical operations.
Soldier System Interfaces & Integration (Sensor Advanced Technology)
This effort will integrate battlefield and body-worn sensors and mature data-fusion algorithms to provide the dismounted Small Unit leader with clear, actionable information to make well informed, rapid, tactical decisions. This effort will mature and integrate advanced dismounted Soldier robotic and autonomous systems technologies to demonstrate autonomous navigation, manned-unmanned teaming, and networked reconnaissance to improve Soldier lethality, situational awareness, and survivability during tactical operations.
Advanced Soldier Sensors/Displays Advanced Technology for Dismounts
This effort will mature and demonstrate low cost Soldier-borne situational understanding systems with greater fidelity for improved maneuver and lethality, as well as integrates automated target cueing to increase probability of recognition/identification and tracking of threats in all environments.
Advanced Fire Control Tech
This effort will mature and demonstrate fire control and targeting sensor technologies and techniques to improve targeting and lethality, and maintain overmatch at longer ranges in all environments.
Body Armor and Integrated Headborne Advanced Technology
This effort focuses on maturing, integrating and demonstrating personal protective capabilities against ballistic, blast, and directed energy threats as well as the development and demonstration of Soldier worn platform architectures to optimize the integration of personal protective equipment and Soldier lethality enabling technologies. Demonstrates advanced test methods to validate personal protective equipment performance enhancements against current and emerging small arms, fragmentation, and blast threats from anti-personnel munitions. The objective of these technology development efforts is to significantly increase Soldier lethality by enhancing the protective capabilities and reducing sub-system and system-level weight of individual protective equipment to reduce the Soldier burden and increase survivability.
Soldier/Squad Performance Metrics for Lethality
This effort validates and matures technologies, methodologies, and human performance models to demonstrate increased Soldier and small unit mobility & lethality to achieve overmatch in maneuverability and tempo to degrade enemy targeting on the transparent battlefield. The effort validates and integrates human performance sensors, models, and design guidance into training/education, test and evaluation, and materiel. The results of this work will allow the Army to develop equipment, systems and training devices that maximize the close combat Soldier and small unit performancein multi-domain operations.
Small Arms Technology Demonstration
This effort matures and demonstrates advanced small arms ammunition, enablers, and weapon system technologies for integration into live fire demonstrations. It refines and optimizes weapon system integration and supports the Joint Warfighters' small arms capability needs. The effort validates small arms weapon system technology readiness levels and confidence of design functionality in advanced and emerging operating scenarios.
Medium Machinegun for Maneuvers (Mounted and Dismounted) Technology (M4DT)
This effort demonstrates feasibility of advanced small arms weapon, ammunition, enablers, and subsystem concepts by means of live-fire demonstrations and Soldier assessment. Mature small caliber gun system technologies to achieve infantry mobility needs and increase lethality.
Advanced Fire Control Tech
This effort will mature and demonstrate fire control and targeting sensor technologies and techniques to improve targeting and lethality, and maintain overmatch at longer ranges in all environments.
Body Armor and Integrated Headborne Advanced Technology
This effort focuses on maturing, integrating and demonstrating personal protective capabilities against ballistic, blast, and directed energy threats as well as the development and demonstration of Soldier worn platform architectures to optimize the integration of personal protective equipment and Soldier lethality enabling technologies. Demonstrates advanced test methods to validate personal protective equipment performance enhancements against current and emerging small arms, fragmentation, and blast threats from anti-personnel munitions. The objective of these technology development efforts is to significantly increase Soldier lethality by enhancing the protective capabilities and reducing sub-system and system-level weight of individual protective equipment to reduce the Soldier burden and increase survivability.
Soldier Camouflage, Concealment and Decoys Demonstration
This effort demonstrates innovative camouflage, concealment, and deception technologies for the dismounted Soldier to defeat advanced current and emerging adversary Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) threats and to reduce the probability of detection and identification across the electromagnetic spectrum. Matures physics-based models for material and system performance that support probability of detection metrics in the multi-domain operational environment, assisting to close the capability gap between current camouflage, concealment, and deception technologies and defeating enemy sensorial capabilities in future operating environments.
Dismounted Soldier Survivability Equipment and Technology Integration
This effort matures and integrates multifunctional protective materials, sub-components, and systems for field demonstrations to significantly increase the survivability of Soldiers through their multi-functional clothing and individual protective equipment. This effort also demonstrates and validates tradeoff analyses in sub-component and system-level designs of ballistic, blast, signature management and integrated protection clothing and equipment technologies.
STE Soldier/Squad Virtual Trainer
This effort matures and demonstrates a common battle drill squad-level mixed reality based system that allows for the rapid conduct and repetition of squad-level training. The training system will make it possible to conduct diverse, repeatable and effective training without extensive training infrastructure. This effort matures and demonstrates novel and realistic training environments that provide increased levels of proficiency and readiness through immersive training scenarios conducted at the point of need.
Operational Unit Partnership and Soldier Touch Point
This effort optimizes innovation through Science and Technology touch points with the Operational force, resulting in rapid iteration, concept maturation, integration, validation of laboratory findings, and transition of technologies and methodologies in response to operational unit demand signal. This effort streamlines demonstration, data collection, and technology maturation for near term DOTMLPF solutions, enabling faster delivery of materiel and non-materiel products/knowledge refined with direct Soldier input. This body of work allows validated, empirical, assessment of any equipment capability or training intervention as part of the Soldier architecture to inform future acquisition investments, training, and operational trade space decisions.
Advanced Processing Technologies for Live Training
This effort will improve technologies that reduce the computational burden, latency, and power consumption (battery weight) associated with training dismounted Soldiers in live training environments that leverage simulated tactical engagements. Such live training use-cases require virtual ballistic flyout calculations, casualty assessment, and visualization of terminal effects (e.g., munition impacts).
Synthetic Cyberspace Effects for Training
This effort matures, demonstrates, and validates a data exchange model for cyberspace effects and a brokering architecture to propagate those cyberspace effects across Live, Virtual and Constructive models and simulations within distributed training environments for collective training.
Advanced Simulation Management Technologies
Develop dynamic automation capability of advanced simulation architecture to enable automatic configuration of small, medium and large scale Live/Virtual/Constructive exercises.
Advanced Multi-Domain Environments for Training
This effort matures and demonstrates a new, common Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) competency framework to drive machine-supported training performance data collection, tracking and readiness projections for current and new MDO use-cases. This effort also validates emerging operational/training paradigms, including a detailed focus on modeling non-combat factors of operational environments and validates models necessary to train for Information Advantage.
Advanced Digital Terrain for LIve Training
This effort matures and demonstrates technologies to enhance the fidelity and visual effects of digital terrain for live training systems, with an objective metric of reducing overall training time to gain proficiency in the live environment. It addresses live training needs for conducting force-on-force, combined arms exercises to enhance readiness at Army home stations and Combat Training Centers by enhancing vertical terrain resolution, physics-based blast effects on terrain, and data compression technologies.
Advanced Medical Training Technology
Included in this effort is the demonstration and maturation of new medical training simulations to train medical personnel across all levels of care resulting in improvements in haptic capabilities will with hyper bio-fidelity for all levels of care. It optimizes automated measures of student performance in support of Army medical Individual Critical Task Lists (ICTLs). It will demonstrate more realistic tissue properties supporting part-task trainers and modular patient simulator systems.
Advanced Soldier Sensors/Displays Advanced Technology for Dismounts
This effort will mature and demonstrate low cost Soldier-borne situational understanding systems with greater fidelity for improved maneuver and lethality, as well as integrates automated target cueing to increase probability of recognition/identification and tracking of threats in all environments.
Personnel & Airdrop Safety Advanced Technology
This effort matures and demonstrates parachute materials and designs, precision guidance, navigation software and hardware, tracking sensors, and safety devices to increase the accuracy of delivering cargo to remote locations and/or complex terrains in global positioning system (GPS) denied environments. This effort also provides technologies that increase safety during personnel insertions into theaters of operation. This effort supports capability demonstrations for mitigating the Army' s challenge of overburdened Soldiers through the use of tactical aerial resupply technologies, as well as supporting Anti-Access/Area Denial (A2/ AD) and manned-unmanned teaming (MUM-T) operational concepts by demonstrating airdrop from non-traditional platforms.
STE Training Management Tool
This effort matures and demonstrates STE-relevant tools and technologies that automatically adapt training to the learner's skill level, conduct intelligent after action reviews, automate team training assessments, and enable the visualization of and interaction with a Mixed Reality Common Operating Picture of the battlespace.
STE One World Terrain
This effort matures and demonstrates tools and methods that improve the speed, fidelity and delivery of synthetic terrain and environmental data needed to support mission rehearsal and training in a representation of the globe, fully accessible through the Army network and usable by all simulation trainers. This effort also matures and develops complex representations (including megacities and subterranean) of the operational environment and the Multi-Domain battlefield in synthetic training environments.
Soldier Situational Awareness AdvTech
This effort will integrate battlefield and body-worn sensors and mature data-fusion algorithms to provide the dismounted Small Unit leader with clear, actionable information to make well informed, rapid, tactical decisions. This effort will mature and integrate advanced dismounted Soldier robotic and autonomous systems technologies to demonstrate autonomous navigation, manned-unmanned teaming, and networked reconnaissance to improve Soldier lethality, situational awareness, and survivability during tactical operations.
Dismounted Soldier Power and Energy
This effort matures, integrates, and demonstrates advanced Soldier P&E technologies that are used to power the dismounted Soldier and small unit's command and control, communications, computers, and sensor devices during tactical operations. This work will result in the Army being able to provide the power and energy the future Soldier requires to operate effectively, while doing so at a reduced physical burden.
Supply Resiliency for Soldier Power
This effort addresses battery supply chain security issues by specifically addressing small battery standardization maturity for DoD applications to be more lethal in dismounted operations.
Joint Service Combat Feeding Advanced Technology Demonstration
This effort matures and demonstrates combat ration and field feeding technologies to optimize Warfighter performance, decrease risk of exposure to chemical and biological contaminants in foods, and reduce the logistics burden to enable semi-independent operations.
Soldier System Interfaces & Integration (Sensor Advanced Technology)
This effort will integrate battlefield and body-worn sensors and mature data-fusion algorithms to provide the dismounted Small Unit leader with clear, actionable information to make well informed, rapid, tactical decisions. This effort will mature and integrate advanced dismounted Soldier robotic and autonomous systems technologies to demonstrate autonomous navigation, manned-unmanned teaming, and networked reconnaissance to improve Soldier lethality, situational awareness, and survivability during tactical operations.
Budget Line Items(workbook-cited)
Exhibit R-1
| Account | Org | Type | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army | A | FY24 Actuals | $126.0M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army | A | FY25 Enacted | $98.0M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army | A | FY25 Total | $98.0M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army | A | FY26 Disc. Request | $95.2M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army | A | FY26 Total | $95.2M |
Budget Details(R-2/P-40 facts)
| Project | FY24 Actuals | FY25 Total | FY26 Base | FY26 Request |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE9: STE Advanced Technology | $8.13M | $4.98M | $814.0K | $814.0K |
| BE2: Joint Service Combat Feeding Advanced Technology | $2.63M | $2.68M | $2.75M | $2.75M |
| AY5: Soldier Squad Small Arms Armaments Advanced Tech | $6.55M | $8.53M | $4.03M | $4.03M |
| AY9: Body Armor & Integrated Headborne Advanced Tech | $8.06M | $5.90M | $4.58M | $4.58M |
| BD7: Soldier Sys Interfaces/Integration-Sensor AdvTech | $7.01M | $6.34M | $4.66M | $4.66M |
| BB3: Dismounted Soldier Survivability Equip/Tech Integ | $3.42M | $11.6M | $9.36M | $9.36M |
| BE5: Personnel & Airdrop Safety Advanced Technology | $6.45M | $6.72M | $9.81M | $9.81M |
| BC1: Human Performance AdvTech for Mobility & Lethality | $6.87M | $7.23M | $10.8M | $10.8M |
| BC8: Training Advanced Technology (Other than STE) | $7.41M | $8.07M | $22.6M | $22.6M |
| BC9: Adv Soldier Sensors/Displays AdvTech for Dismounts | $26.5M | $24.0M | $25.7M | $25.7M |
| Program Element | $126.0M | $98.0M | $95.2M | $95.2M |
| BS8: Soldier Lethality Advanced Technology | $26.5M | $12.0M | — | — |
| BB8: Soldier Centric Advanced Technology | $1.83M | — | — | — |
| AY7: Small Arms Fire Control Advanced Technology | $2.48M | — | — | — |
| AZ6: Soldier Signature Management Advanced Technology | $3.05M | — | — | — |
| BD9: Soldier & Sm Unit Tactical Energy AdvTech | $9.08M | — | — | — |
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