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Ground Advanced Technology
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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? →
| Fiscal year | Amount |
|---|---|
| FY24 | $276.3M |
| FY25 | $87.8M |
| FY26 | $30.5M |
All series figures: R-1 TOA · PB2026
The vertical scale does not start at zero: the baseline sits just below this program’s smallest year, so a low point on this line is not a small amount. Read the shape for direction and the grid below for the figures.
● 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 | $136.5M | $196.1M | $281.6M | $415.1M | $276.3M | ||
| Enacted | – | $0 | $136.8M | $196.1M | $280.5M | $415.8M | $40.6M | $87.8M | |
| Request | – | – | $12.6M | $14.8M | $23.4M | $32.5M | $40.6M | $45.9M | $30.5M |
blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.
Asked vs spent: the PB2023 book requested $32.5M for FY2023; the PB2025 book reported $415.1M as actual total obligation authority — $382.6M above the request. 415.1 − 32.5 = 382.6 USD millions — the compact figures above are rounded for reading.
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 — Ground Advanced Technology
This Program Element (PE) matures and demonstrates ground movement and maneuver technologies that support and enable the Army's modernization priority for the Next Generation of Combat Vehicles. This PE also matures, integrates and demonstrates advanced technologies that are necessary and foundational for legacy and future ground platforms and ground maneuver. These technology areas include: robotic and autonomous Army Combat Engineer equipment, liquid logistics (i.e., fuels, lubricants, and oils) and related monitoring and distribution, forensic analysis of explosives and other chemical materials, rapidly deployable passive protection technologies, entry and maneuver assessment technologies and structural hardening technologies to protect personnel and critical assets from advanced weapon effects. Project BK9: Ground System Fluids and Fuels Adv Tech was eliminated in PE 0603119A to reflect Department of Defense priorities and will cease Army capabilities to qualify advanced fuels and coolants for combat vehicles and to inform fuel logistics. Project CJ9: Ground Enabling University Adv Development in PE 0603119A was eliminated to reflect Department of Defense priorities and will cease university partnerships in the development of autonomy. The cited research is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas in support of the National Defense Strategy. Research is performed by the United States (U.S.) Army Futures Command and the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center. Research in this PE complements PE 0602144A (Ground Technology), PE 0602145A (Next Generation Combat Vehicle Technology), and PE 0603462A (Next Generation Combat Vehicle Advanced Technology). The FY 2026 request was reduced by $0.063 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 $0.176 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 — Robotics for Engineer Operations Adv Tech
This Project matures and demonstrates robotic engineer equipment capabilities that can remotely characterize the environment and operate in the battlespace for autonomous Combat Engineer actions. This Project provides technologies for Combat Engineer mission planning, creating or reducing barriers and obstacles, as well as maintaining, repairing, and constructing expedient infrastructure. These efforts will enhance Combat Engineer missions of mobility, counter mobility, and survivability through semi-autonomous or autonomous operations. Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0602144A (Ground Technology) / Project BK7 (Robotics for Engineer Operations Technology). The work cited is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas. Work in this Project is performed by the United States Army Engineer Research and Development Center Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, Information Technology Laboratory, and Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory
Mission — Ground System Fluids and Fuels Adv Tech
This Project matures and demonstrates liquid logistics technologies such as enhanced jet fuels, lubricants, oils, powertrain fluids, coolants, bulk fluid treatment, monitoring, metering, storage, and distribution in support of established Army regulations and requirements. This Project improves products and technologies to optimize fuel efficiency, meet new hardware fluid requirements, modernize fluids, ensure bulk fluid meets quality requirements, and provide bulk fluid asset visibility, to optimize logistics and reduce logistics requirements. This Project executes the demonstration of enhanced jet fuels for ground systems, enhanced performance coolants, fluids for vehicle electrification, and smart bulk fuel metering and monitoring technologies. This Project improves liquid logistics products and technologies that are critical enablers for multi-domain operations requiring semi-independent operations to enable dispersed operations to extend operational reach, prolong endurance and allow freedom of action for the Joint Force. The cited research is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas. Work in this Project is performed by the Ground Vehicle System Center (GVSC)
Mission — Explosives Forensics Advanced Technology
This will mature and demonstrate instrumentation and algorithms required to provide improved point, proximity, and stand-off detection of low levels of explosives and solid chemical hazards. This will enable the warfighter to integrate portable chemical and explosive hazard detection equipment. This project will also integrate explosive detection into the family of Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear point and stand-off sensors, alternative chemical detection modalities and algorithms, that will improve the probability of detection and attribution of an explosive hazard or home-made explosive manufacturing/assembly location. Work in this project compliments Program Element (PE) 0602144A (Ground Technology) / Project BL2 (Explosives Forensics Technology) The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense Research and Engineering priority focus. Work in this Project is performed by the Chemical Biological Center (CBC)
Mission — Expedient Passive Protection Advanced Technology
This Project matures and demonstrates rapidly deployable protection solutions to protect the Warfighter and critical assets; methodologies for intuitive decision support; and tactics, techniques, and procedures to increase the survivability of personnel, critical assets, and facilities from a range of threats. Force protection technologies will be matured and demonstrated for applications in complex and contested environments to protect against a range of threats, to include improvised, conventional, and emerging weapons such as ballistic missiles. Develop and demonstrate protective structure design guidance to reduce blast overpressure (BOP) exposure to Warfighters using rapid analysis and characterization of blast environments and novel materials and structural solutions. Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0602144A (Ground Technology) / Project BL5 (Expedient Passive Protection Technology). The work cited is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. Work in this Project supports the Army Science and Technology Ground Portfolio. Work in this Project is performed by the United States Army Engineer Research and Development Center Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory.
Mission — Power Projection in A2AD Environments Adv Tech
This Project matures and demonstrates remote assessment technologies to determine entry and maneuver corridors, provides site selection tools and decision support technologies for climatic regions in all season conditions including aviation site- selection tools, enhanced automated route reconnaissance technologies, mobility models for extreme temperatures, and road capacity assessment technologies. These technologies will reduce reliance on manned on-site reconnaissance for force projection assessments and provide all-season predictions to ensure air and ground battlespace entry and maneuver. This Project also matures and demonstrates material solutions to repair, rebuild, and construct infrastructure required for movement and maneuver in highly contested, complex operational environments such as Anti-Access/Area Denial. Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0602144A (Ground Technology) / Project BL7 (Power Projection in A2AD Environments Technology). The work cited is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas. Work in this Project is performed by the United States Army Engineer Research and Development Center Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory.
Mission — Protection from Advanced Weapon Effects Adv Tech
This Project matures and demonstrates structural hardening solutions and force protection technologies to increase survivability of facilities and provide critical updates to protective design specifications and guidance. Additionally, this project matures and demonstrates passive protection technologies and provides protective design criteria advancements to mitigate attack from emerging advanced threats. Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0602144A (Ground Technology) / Project BL9 (Protection from Advanced Weapon Effects Technology). The work cited is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas. Work in this Project is performed by the United States Army Engineer Research and Development Center Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory.
Mission — MILITARY ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATION (CA)
Congressional Interest Item funding provided for Military Engineering Technology Demonstration. The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy.
Mission — Ground Enabling University Adv Development
The Project matures and demonstrates advanced developments and technological innovations from academia, in the focus areas of ground autonomy, Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning (AI/ML) and robotics, occupant/vehicle survivability and other ground platform technologies of importance to the Army, by maturing and demonstrating technologies with the goal of delivering technology to the warfighter more quickly. This Project matures and demonstrates advanced technologies with a focus on mid to far-term Army modernization priorities while also maintaining delivery of near-term technologies critical to the next generation combat vehicles. This Project focuses on maturation and demonstration of various advanced technologies originating from extramural applied research in academia pertaining to navigation/routing, autonomous robotic vehicles with the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning as applied to ground mobility and maneuver, and other innovative ground enabling applied research technologies. This Project also matures and demonstrates advanced technologies leading to potential emerging capabilities in areas of strategic importance to the Army in autonomy, robotics and AI/ML, protection of both platform and occupant, and other ground platform technologies in propulsion, survivability, powertrain, etc., by bringing competitively selected Universities with research and development teams into Technical Alliances. Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0620144A (Ground Technology), PE 0602145A (Next Generation Combat Vehicle Technology) and PE 0603462A (Next Generation Combat Vehicle Advanced Technology). The work cited is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas. Work in this Project is performed by the Army Research Laboratory (ARL).
Mission — Engineer Enablers Maneuver, LOG, & Sustainment Adv
This Project matures and demonstrates joint contested logistics operations technologies and provides capabilities to operate in dispersed battlefield operations and support sustainment operations through predicted dynamic scenario development that provides critical vulnerabilities assessment and methods/equipment to mitigate potential issues. Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0602144A (Ground Technology) / Project CV3 (Engineer Enablers Maneuver, LOG, & Sustainment Apl). The work cited is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. Work in this Project supports the Army Science and Technology Ground portfolio. Work is performed by the United States Army Engineer Research and Development Center Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory, Geospatial Research Laboratory, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, Environmental Laboratory, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, and Information Technology Laboratory.
Mission — SAFR Alternatives for Readiness Advanced Tech
This Project matures and demonstrates cross-cutting, safer alternative advanced technologies that enable warfighter readiness. These technologies also support product availability, Soldier and worker safety, and a reduced environmental footprint in the manufacturing, maintenance, and use of ground vehicles and other Army weapon systems. The Project matures and optimizes safer alternatives in technology areas including surface finishes, coatings, solvents, refrigerants, and fire suppressants. This research addresses the growing impacts to health and readiness associated with carcinogens such as hexavalent chromium, global warming chemicals including hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), and forever chemicals such as like per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). This Project enables the Army to assess and resolve these types of emerging and continually evolving risks throughout the full life cycle of Army systems. This Project complements and transitions technologies developed under Program Element (PE) 0602144A (Ground Technology) /Project DA1 (SAFR Alternatives for Readiness Applied Research). Work in this Project is performed by the Army Research Laboratory (ARL); the Armaments Center; the Aviation and Missile Center (AVMC); the Soldier Center (SC), and the Ground Vehicle Systems Center (GVSC)
Mission — Advanced Development of Obscurants
The Project matures and demonstrates obscurant technologies with potential to enhance personnel and platform survivability by degrading threat force surveillance sensors and defeating the enemy's target acquisition devices, missile guidance, and directed energy weapons. Dissemination systems for new and improved obscurants are developed with the goal of providing efficient and safe screening of deployed forces. Work in this Project compliments Program Element (PE) 0602144A (Ground Technology) / Project DG1 (Development of Obscurants) 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 Chemical Biological Center (CBC).
Mission — Environmental Security Resilience Adv Tech
This Project matures and demonstrates capabilities to support Army Environmental Security, providing decisions and support tools for critical mission environments to address natural resource impediments, man-made stressors, extreme weather, and environmental engineering challenges that impact mission, infrastructure, training activities, deployment staging or present security concerns to operations. Project capabilities span the functional domains of strategic support area management, emergency preparedness, surge capacity, environmental impact on operations, and analysis of future operational environment and environmental threats. This effort will provide new material solutions, models and decision support tools for operational planning and infrastructure management. Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0602144A (DI7) / Project (Environmental Security Resilience Tech). 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 United States Army Engineer Research and Development Center Environmental Laboratory, Construction Research Engineering Laboratory, and the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory.
Mission — Comprehensive Adapt Operational Energy Adv Tech
This Project will provide power control and distribution hardware (i.e., inverters and metering and monitoring equipment) that supports interoperability between the energy source program of record, such as Advanced Medium Mobile Power Source (AMMPS) and energy storage solutions at the tactical level. This project matures, demonstrates, and integrates a seamless bridge between low and medium voltage tactical generators (defined as 500kW and below), and improves decision tools to assist the Commander in choosing the optimal operational energy power storage type for their mission or force structure. The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas. Work in this Project is performed by the United States Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory.
Mission — Ground Advanced Technology
This Program Element (PE) matures and demonstrates ground movement and maneuver technologies that support and enable the Army's modernization priority for the Next Generation of Combat Vehicles. This PE also matures, integrates and demonstrates advanced technologies that are necessary and foundational for legacy and future ground platforms and ground maneuver. These technology areas include: robotic and autonomous Army Combat Engineer equipment, liquid logistics (i.e., fuels, lubricants, and oils) and related monitoring and distribution, forensic analysis of explosives and other chemical materials, rapidly deployable passive protection technologies, entry and maneuver assessment technologies and structural hardening technologies to protect personnel and critical assets from advanced weapon effects. Project BK9: Ground System Fluids and Fuels Adv Tech was eliminated in PE 0603119A to reflect Department of Defense priorities and will cease Army capabilities to qualify advanced fuels and coolants for combat vehicles and to inform fuel logistics. Project CJ9: Ground Enabling University Adv Development in PE 0603119A was eliminated to reflect Department of Defense priorities and will cease university partnerships in the development of autonomy. The cited research is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas in support of the National Defense Strategy. Research is performed by the United States (U.S.) Army Futures Command and the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center. Research in this PE complements PE 0602144A (Ground Technology), PE 0602145A (Next Generation Combat Vehicle Technology), and PE 0603462A (Next Generation Combat Vehicle Advanced Technology). The FY 2026 request was reduced by $0.063 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 $0.176 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 — Robotics for Engineer Operations Adv Tech
This Project matures and demonstrates robotic engineer equipment capabilities that can remotely characterize the environment and operate in the battlespace for autonomous Combat Engineer actions. This Project provides technologies for Combat Engineer mission planning, creating or reducing barriers and obstacles, as well as maintaining, repairing, and constructing expedient infrastructure. These efforts will enhance Combat Engineer missions of mobility, counter mobility, and survivability through semi-autonomous or autonomous operations. Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0602144A (Ground Technology) / Project BK7 (Robotics for Engineer Operations Technology). The work cited is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas. Work in this Project is performed by the United States Army Engineer Research and Development Center Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, Information Technology Laboratory, and Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory
Mission — Ground System Fluids and Fuels Adv Tech
This Project matures and demonstrates liquid logistics technologies such as enhanced jet fuels, lubricants, oils, powertrain fluids, coolants, bulk fluid treatment, monitoring, metering, storage, and distribution in support of established Army regulations and requirements. This Project improves products and technologies to optimize fuel efficiency, meet new hardware fluid requirements, modernize fluids, ensure bulk fluid meets quality requirements, and provide bulk fluid asset visibility, to optimize logistics and reduce logistics requirements. This Project executes the demonstration of enhanced jet fuels for ground systems, enhanced performance coolants, fluids for vehicle electrification, and smart bulk fuel metering and monitoring technologies. This Project improves liquid logistics products and technologies that are critical enablers for multi-domain operations requiring semi-independent operations to enable dispersed operations to extend operational reach, prolong endurance and allow freedom of action for the Joint Force. The cited research is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas. Work in this Project is performed by the Ground Vehicle System Center (GVSC)
Mission — Explosives Forensics Advanced Technology
This will mature and demonstrate instrumentation and algorithms required to provide improved point, proximity, and stand-off detection of low levels of explosives and solid chemical hazards. This will enable the warfighter to integrate portable chemical and explosive hazard detection equipment. This project will also integrate explosive detection into the family of Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear point and stand-off sensors, alternative chemical detection modalities and algorithms, that will improve the probability of detection and attribution of an explosive hazard or home-made explosive manufacturing/assembly location. Work in this project compliments Program Element (PE) 0602144A (Ground Technology) / Project BL2 (Explosives Forensics Technology) The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense Research and Engineering priority focus. Work in this Project is performed by the Chemical Biological Center (CBC)
Mission — Expedient Passive Protection Advanced Technology
This Project matures and demonstrates rapidly deployable protection solutions to protect the Warfighter and critical assets; methodologies for intuitive decision support; and tactics, techniques, and procedures to increase the survivability of personnel, critical assets, and facilities from a range of threats. Force protection technologies will be matured and demonstrated for applications in complex and contested environments to protect against a range of threats, to include improvised, conventional, and emerging weapons such as ballistic missiles. Develop and demonstrate protective structure design guidance to reduce blast overpressure (BOP) exposure to Warfighters using rapid analysis and characterization of blast environments and novel materials and structural solutions. Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0602144A (Ground Technology) / Project BL5 (Expedient Passive Protection Technology). The work cited is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. Work in this Project supports the Army Science and Technology Ground Portfolio. Work in this Project is performed by the United States Army Engineer Research and Development Center Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory.
Mission — Power Projection in A2AD Environments Adv Tech
This Project matures and demonstrates remote assessment technologies to determine entry and maneuver corridors, provides site selection tools and decision support technologies for climatic regions in all season conditions including aviation site- selection tools, enhanced automated route reconnaissance technologies, mobility models for extreme temperatures, and road capacity assessment technologies. These technologies will reduce reliance on manned on-site reconnaissance for force projection assessments and provide all-season predictions to ensure air and ground battlespace entry and maneuver. This Project also matures and demonstrates material solutions to repair, rebuild, and construct infrastructure required for movement and maneuver in highly contested, complex operational environments such as Anti-Access/Area Denial. Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0602144A (Ground Technology) / Project BL7 (Power Projection in A2AD Environments Technology). The work cited is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas. Work in this Project is performed by the United States Army Engineer Research and Development Center Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory.
Mission — Protection from Advanced Weapon Effects Adv Tech
This Project matures and demonstrates structural hardening solutions and force protection technologies to increase survivability of facilities and provide critical updates to protective design specifications and guidance. Additionally, this project matures and demonstrates passive protection technologies and provides protective design criteria advancements to mitigate attack from emerging advanced threats. Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0602144A (Ground Technology) / Project BL9 (Protection from Advanced Weapon Effects Technology). The work cited is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas. Work in this Project is performed by the United States Army Engineer Research and Development Center Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory.
Mission — MILITARY ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATION (CA)
Congressional Interest Item funding provided for Military Engineering Technology Demonstration. The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy.
Mission — Ground Enabling University Adv Development
The Project matures and demonstrates advanced developments and technological innovations from academia, in the focus areas of ground autonomy, Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning (AI/ML) and robotics, occupant/vehicle survivability and other ground platform technologies of importance to the Army, by maturing and demonstrating technologies with the goal of delivering technology to the warfighter more quickly. This Project matures and demonstrates advanced technologies with a focus on mid to far-term Army modernization priorities while also maintaining delivery of near-term technologies critical to the next generation combat vehicles. This Project focuses on maturation and demonstration of various advanced technologies originating from extramural applied research in academia pertaining to navigation/routing, autonomous robotic vehicles with the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning as applied to ground mobility and maneuver, and other innovative ground enabling applied research technologies. This Project also matures and demonstrates advanced technologies leading to potential emerging capabilities in areas of strategic importance to the Army in autonomy, robotics and AI/ML, protection of both platform and occupant, and other ground platform technologies in propulsion, survivability, powertrain, etc., by bringing competitively selected Universities with research and development teams into Technical Alliances. Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0620144A (Ground Technology), PE 0602145A (Next Generation Combat Vehicle Technology) and PE 0603462A (Next Generation Combat Vehicle Advanced Technology). The work cited is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas. Work in this Project is performed by the Army Research Laboratory (ARL).
Mission — Engineer Enablers Maneuver, LOG, & Sustainment Adv
This Project matures and demonstrates joint contested logistics operations technologies and provides capabilities to operate in dispersed battlefield operations and support sustainment operations through predicted dynamic scenario development that provides critical vulnerabilities assessment and methods/equipment to mitigate potential issues. Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0602144A (Ground Technology) / Project CV3 (Engineer Enablers Maneuver, LOG, & Sustainment Apl). The work cited is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. Work in this Project supports the Army Science and Technology Ground portfolio. Work is performed by the United States Army Engineer Research and Development Center Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory, Geospatial Research Laboratory, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, Environmental Laboratory, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, and Information Technology Laboratory.
Mission — SAFR Alternatives for Readiness Advanced Tech
This Project matures and demonstrates cross-cutting, safer alternative advanced technologies that enable warfighter readiness. These technologies also support product availability, Soldier and worker safety, and a reduced environmental footprint in the manufacturing, maintenance, and use of ground vehicles and other Army weapon systems. The Project matures and optimizes safer alternatives in technology areas including surface finishes, coatings, solvents, refrigerants, and fire suppressants. This research addresses the growing impacts to health and readiness associated with carcinogens such as hexavalent chromium, global warming chemicals including hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), and forever chemicals such as like per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). This Project enables the Army to assess and resolve these types of emerging and continually evolving risks throughout the full life cycle of Army systems. This Project complements and transitions technologies developed under Program Element (PE) 0602144A (Ground Technology) /Project DA1 (SAFR Alternatives for Readiness Applied Research). Work in this Project is performed by the Army Research Laboratory (ARL); the Armaments Center; the Aviation and Missile Center (AVMC); the Soldier Center (SC), and the Ground Vehicle Systems Center (GVSC)
Mission — Advanced Development of Obscurants
The Project matures and demonstrates obscurant technologies with potential to enhance personnel and platform survivability by degrading threat force surveillance sensors and defeating the enemy's target acquisition devices, missile guidance, and directed energy weapons. Dissemination systems for new and improved obscurants are developed with the goal of providing efficient and safe screening of deployed forces. Work in this Project compliments Program Element (PE) 0602144A (Ground Technology) / Project DG1 (Development of Obscurants) 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 Chemical Biological Center (CBC).
Mission — Environmental Security Resilience Adv Tech
This Project matures and demonstrates capabilities to support Army Environmental Security, providing decisions and support tools for critical mission environments to address natural resource impediments, man-made stressors, extreme weather, and environmental engineering challenges that impact mission, infrastructure, training activities, deployment staging or present security concerns to operations. Project capabilities span the functional domains of strategic support area management, emergency preparedness, surge capacity, environmental impact on operations, and analysis of future operational environment and environmental threats. This effort will provide new material solutions, models and decision support tools for operational planning and infrastructure management. Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0602144A (DI7) / Project (Environmental Security Resilience Tech). 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 United States Army Engineer Research and Development Center Environmental Laboratory, Construction Research Engineering Laboratory, and the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory.
Mission — Comprehensive Adapt Operational Energy Adv Tech
This Project will provide power control and distribution hardware (i.e., inverters and metering and monitoring equipment) that supports interoperability between the energy source program of record, such as Advanced Medium Mobile Power Source (AMMPS) and energy storage solutions at the tactical level. This project matures, demonstrates, and integrates a seamless bridge between low and medium voltage tactical generators (defined as 500kW and below), and improves decision tools to assist the Commander in choosing the optimal operational energy power storage type for their mission or force structure. The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas. Work in this Project is performed by the United States Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory.
Justification
Accomplishments & Planned Programs (44)
Semi-Autonomous Engr Ops Demonstration
This effort matures and demonstrates machine tool behaviors to perform semi-autonomous shaping of the terrain through physical interaction with the environment (push, pull, lift, and dig). The effort develops the necessary decision-making, data fusion, localization, and inter-platform communication to allow semi-autonomy on commercial off the shelf (COTS) equipment.
Ground System Fluids and Fuels
This effort focuses on reducing the logistics footprint, improving fuel efficiency, and ensuring mobility by maturing and demonstrating technologies in areas such petroleum quality monitoring, filtration, storage and distribution, hydraulic fluids; enhanced jet fuels and fuel additives, lubricants, oil, powertrain fluids and coolants. Validates candidate engine coolants that extend change intervals, reduce corrosion, and minimize incompatibility issues for military use. Establish performance requirements for new military thermal fluids that enable emerging vehicle electrification technology. Integrate smart fuel metering technology into self-correcting devices that automatically report fuel quantity and conduct fuel filter effectiveness testing to establish fuel particle contamination limits for new fuel monitoring technology.
Detection Mechanisms for Contaminants
This effort matures and demonstrates improved point and standoff detection of military and homemade explosives and their precursors, and other chemicals and hazardous materials.
Forensic Analysis of Explosives Signatures Advanced Research
This effort matures and demonstrates improved point and standoff detection of military and homemade explosives. chemical threats, and their precursors, and other chemicals and hazardous materials.
Assessments of Solutions for Survivability from Emerging Threats Demonstrations
This effort matures and demonstrates expedient force protection solutions for emerging threats such as large caliber rocket and missile weapon effects and weaponized unmanned aerial systems. This effort also demonstrates survivability assessment methodologies for intuitive decision support, and informs tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP's) to increase the survivability of personnel and critical assets against emerging threats. This effort will enhance Warfighter and critical asset survivability from these emerging threats.
Deliberate Expedient Protection for Large-scale Operations Yielding Survivability (DEPLOYS) Demonstrations
This effort matures and demonstrates expedient survivability solutions for large-scale combat operations. This effort will develop logistically feasible passive protection solutions tailored for protection of key assets, logistical nodes, sustainment functions, and tactical operation centers to complement active and other passive protection solutions throughout INDOPACOM enhancing overall mission assurance. This effort will also demonstrate holistic survivability assessments and guidance for critical sites, functions, and personnel, accounting for various attack scenarios and the interdependencies of components, assets, systems, and systems of systems.
Engineering for Battlespace Maneuver Demonstrations
This effort demonstrates material solutions and techniques for expedient repair to rapidly repair and upgrade damaged infrastructure along mobility corridors and restaging areas to maintain and enhance freedom of maneuver achieving overmatch and tactical advantage in contested complex environments.
Force Projection in Multi-Domain Operations Demonstrations
This effort demonstrates capabilities for maneuver across air/land/sea domains using Combat Engineer assets to assess, modify, and upgrade transitional regions (such as beaches and coastal swamps) critical to force projection. Demonstrates planning tools for prioritizing assets required for engineers to perform mobility enhancements. Demonstrates material solutions and informs tactics, techniques, and procedures for engineering enhancements that enable overmatch through expanded environments for distributed operations.
Protection from Advanced Penetrators Demonstration
This effort matures and demonstrates passive protective designs and concepts for hardened structures and critical assets that mitigate the effects of advanced precision threat weapons of peer and near peer adversaries through focused subscale to full-scale demonstrations.
Robust autonomous capabilities for ground vehicles
This effort demonstrates AI/ML and autonomous mobility integrated into ground vehicles to conduct off-road maneuvers to enable the transition from teleoperation to autonomous or semi-autonomous scenarios. Research is conducted in collaboration with university partners to advance autonomous mobility and protection of both occupant and platform in optionally manned and autonomous ground vehicles.
Human-robot/AI interactions
This effort matures, integrates, and demonstrates systems involving physical and cognitive levels of interactions between humans and robots, with the use of reinforcement machine learning which uses human feedback, learning from demonstrations, and safe human-aware controllers. Work is conducted in collaboration with university partners to advance autonomous mobility as well as other areas of ground platform technologies in propulsion, survivability, powertrain, sensing, and perception.
Sustainment Planning Tool
This effort will mature and demonstrate map-based sustainment running estimates for the prepositioning of survivable material stockpiles based on synchronized ops/intel/log running estimates and informed by artificial intelligence (AI)-based edge computing analyses.
Planning Logistics Analysis Network System Advanced Research
This effort will demonstrate new engineering applications and methodologies that support improved distributed logistics planning via multi-modal transportation networks to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the planning and decision-making cycle during contested logistics operations.
Worldwide Gap Analysis Program Demonstrations
This effort will demonstrate new engineering applications and methodologies in support of distributed operations through improved gap crossing site selection to improve efficiency and effectiveness of the planning and decision-making processes for both uncontested and contested crossings.
Safer Alternatives for Readiness (SAFR) Advanced Technology
Mature and demonstrate safer alternative advanced technologies to replace hexavalent chromium, cadmium and other harmful chemicals during surface finishing; reduce the use of volatile organic compounds and other hazardous materials in coating and depainting processes; and ensure the availability of compatible next generation refrigerants and fire suppressants with low global warming potential.
Corrosion Control
Enhance Army readiness and reliability by optimizing materials and processes for corrosion prevention through design for future systems and product improvements for fielded systems; validate approaches for corrosion assessment and correction through depot- and field-level maintenance; and improve corrosion prevention during operation and operational storage, transportation and temporary storage, and long-term storage or warehousing.
Resilient, Energetic Efficient Production of PBXs (REEPP)
This effort will support a pilot/production scale facilitation which can manufacture polymer bound explosives (PBX) compositions in a distributed manner using spray dry energy efficient and scalable coating technology.
Advanced Obscuration
This effort matures and demonstrates the dissemination of new and advanced obscurants.
Arctic Fuel Distribution Hose Testing Project
This project will develop and demonstrate capability of low temperature components in an arctic operational environment: evaluation of commercial low temperature hoses to Army requirements found in MIL-DTL-6615 and MIL-PRF-370 at the Army's GVSC Fuels and Lubricant Research Facility. Hoses that successfully complete the testing will be procured for a demonstration with the 11th Airborne Division at Fort Wainwright, AK.
PFAS Risk Reduction Advanced Development
This effort will mature the per- and polyfluorinated substances (PFAS) risk-based decision framework tools to enabled rapid science-based-risk decisions for Army installation managers. This effort also shares information across the Army installation community through a PFAS communications hub.
Ruggedized Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) Ultra Light Electro-magnetic Array for Extreme Environments (DEMO)
This effort will demonstrate the multi-platform compatible ultra-light electromagnetic array's ability to identify and classify metallic/conventional unexploded ordinance in operational environments, various terrains, and in all seasons.
Operational Energy Life Cycle Management for Contingency Bases Demonstrations
This effort demonstrates novel operational energy storage solutions to address distributed operations in multidomain operation and reduce fuel demand of Army contingency operations.
Semi-Autonomous Engr Ops Demonstration
This effort matures and demonstrates machine tool behaviors to perform semi-autonomous shaping of the terrain through physical interaction with the environment (push, pull, lift, and dig). The effort develops the necessary decision-making, data fusion, localization, and inter-platform communication to allow semi-autonomy on commercial off the shelf (COTS) equipment.
Ground System Fluids and Fuels
This effort focuses on reducing the logistics footprint, improving fuel efficiency, and ensuring mobility by maturing and demonstrating technologies in areas such petroleum quality monitoring, filtration, storage and distribution, hydraulic fluids; enhanced jet fuels and fuel additives, lubricants, oil, powertrain fluids and coolants. Validates candidate engine coolants that extend change intervals, reduce corrosion, and minimize incompatibility issues for military use. Establish performance requirements for new military thermal fluids that enable emerging vehicle electrification technology. Integrate smart fuel metering technology into self-correcting devices that automatically report fuel quantity and conduct fuel filter effectiveness testing to establish fuel particle contamination limits for new fuel monitoring technology.
Detection Mechanisms for Contaminants
This effort matures and demonstrates improved point and standoff detection of military and homemade explosives and their precursors, and other chemicals and hazardous materials.
Forensic Analysis of Explosives Signatures Advanced Research
This effort matures and demonstrates improved point and standoff detection of military and homemade explosives. chemical threats, and their precursors, and other chemicals and hazardous materials.
Assessments of Solutions for Survivability from Emerging Threats Demonstrations
This effort matures and demonstrates expedient force protection solutions for emerging threats such as large caliber rocket and missile weapon effects and weaponized unmanned aerial systems. This effort also demonstrates survivability assessment methodologies for intuitive decision support, and informs tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP's) to increase the survivability of personnel and critical assets against emerging threats. This effort will enhance Warfighter and critical asset survivability from these emerging threats.
Deliberate Expedient Protection for Large-scale Operations Yielding Survivability (DEPLOYS) Demonstrations
This effort matures and demonstrates expedient survivability solutions for large-scale combat operations. This effort will develop logistically feasible passive protection solutions tailored for protection of key assets, logistical nodes, sustainment functions, and tactical operation centers to complement active and other passive protection solutions throughout INDOPACOM enhancing overall mission assurance. This effort will also demonstrate holistic survivability assessments and guidance for critical sites, functions, and personnel, accounting for various attack scenarios and the interdependencies of components, assets, systems, and systems of systems.
Engineering for Battlespace Maneuver Demonstrations
This effort demonstrates material solutions and techniques for expedient repair to rapidly repair and upgrade damaged infrastructure along mobility corridors and restaging areas to maintain and enhance freedom of maneuver achieving overmatch and tactical advantage in contested complex environments.
Force Projection in Multi-Domain Operations Demonstrations
This effort demonstrates capabilities for maneuver across air/land/sea domains using Combat Engineer assets to assess, modify, and upgrade transitional regions (such as beaches and coastal swamps) critical to force projection. Demonstrates planning tools for prioritizing assets required for engineers to perform mobility enhancements. Demonstrates material solutions and informs tactics, techniques, and procedures for engineering enhancements that enable overmatch through expanded environments for distributed operations.
Protection from Advanced Penetrators Demonstration
This effort matures and demonstrates passive protective designs and concepts for hardened structures and critical assets that mitigate the effects of advanced precision threat weapons of peer and near peer adversaries through focused subscale to full-scale demonstrations.
Robust autonomous capabilities for ground vehicles
This effort demonstrates AI/ML and autonomous mobility integrated into ground vehicles to conduct off-road maneuvers to enable the transition from teleoperation to autonomous or semi-autonomous scenarios. Research is conducted in collaboration with university partners to advance autonomous mobility and protection of both occupant and platform in optionally manned and autonomous ground vehicles.
Human-robot/AI interactions
This effort matures, integrates, and demonstrates systems involving physical and cognitive levels of interactions between humans and robots, with the use of reinforcement machine learning which uses human feedback, learning from demonstrations, and safe human-aware controllers. Work is conducted in collaboration with university partners to advance autonomous mobility as well as other areas of ground platform technologies in propulsion, survivability, powertrain, sensing, and perception.
Sustainment Planning Tool
This effort will mature and demonstrate map-based sustainment running estimates for the prepositioning of survivable material stockpiles based on synchronized ops/intel/log running estimates and informed by artificial intelligence (AI)-based edge computing analyses.
Planning Logistics Analysis Network System Advanced Research
This effort will demonstrate new engineering applications and methodologies that support improved distributed logistics planning via multi-modal transportation networks to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the planning and decision-making cycle during contested logistics operations.
Worldwide Gap Analysis Program Demonstrations
This effort will demonstrate new engineering applications and methodologies in support of distributed operations through improved gap crossing site selection to improve efficiency and effectiveness of the planning and decision-making processes for both uncontested and contested crossings.
Safer Alternatives for Readiness (SAFR) Advanced Technology
Mature and demonstrate safer alternative advanced technologies to replace hexavalent chromium, cadmium and other harmful chemicals during surface finishing; reduce the use of volatile organic compounds and other hazardous materials in coating and depainting processes; and ensure the availability of compatible next generation refrigerants and fire suppressants with low global warming potential.
Corrosion Control
Enhance Army readiness and reliability by optimizing materials and processes for corrosion prevention through design for future systems and product improvements for fielded systems; validate approaches for corrosion assessment and correction through depot- and field-level maintenance; and improve corrosion prevention during operation and operational storage, transportation and temporary storage, and long-term storage or warehousing.
Resilient, Energetic Efficient Production of PBXs (REEPP)
This effort will support a pilot/production scale facilitation which can manufacture polymer bound explosives (PBX) compositions in a distributed manner using spray dry energy efficient and scalable coating technology.
Advanced Obscuration
This effort matures and demonstrates the dissemination of new and advanced obscurants.
Arctic Fuel Distribution Hose Testing Project
This project will develop and demonstrate capability of low temperature components in an arctic operational environment: evaluation of commercial low temperature hoses to Army requirements found in MIL-DTL-6615 and MIL-PRF-370 at the Army's GVSC Fuels and Lubricant Research Facility. Hoses that successfully complete the testing will be procured for a demonstration with the 11th Airborne Division at Fort Wainwright, AK.
PFAS Risk Reduction Advanced Development
This effort will mature the per- and polyfluorinated substances (PFAS) risk-based decision framework tools to enabled rapid science-based-risk decisions for Army installation managers. This effort also shares information across the Army installation community through a PFAS communications hub.
Ruggedized Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) Ultra Light Electro-magnetic Array for Extreme Environments (DEMO)
This effort will demonstrate the multi-platform compatible ultra-light electromagnetic array's ability to identify and classify metallic/conventional unexploded ordinance in operational environments, various terrains, and in all seasons.
Operational Energy Life Cycle Management for Contingency Bases Demonstrations
This effort demonstrates novel operational energy storage solutions to address distributed operations in multidomain operation and reduce fuel demand of Army contingency operations.
Budget Line Items(workbook-cited)
P-1/R-1 workbook Total Obligation Authority basis (USD thousands) · PB2026.
Exhibit R-1
| Account | Org | Type | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army | A | FY24 Actuals | $276.3M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army | A | FY25 Enacted | $87.8M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army | A | FY25 Total | $87.8M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army | A | FY26 Disc. Request | $30.5M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army | A | FY26 Total | $30.5M |
Budget Details(R-2/P-40 facts)
J-book detail basis (R-2/P-40, USD millions) · PB2026 — a different accounting basis from the P-1/R-1 workbook TOA above; where the two disagree, the reconciliation strip under Budget Figures shows both.
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| Project | FY24 Actuals | FY25 Total | FY26 Base | FY26 Request |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Program Element | $276.3M | $87.8M | $30.5M | $30.5M |
| BK8: Robotics for Engineer Operations Adv Tech | $3.79M | $4.26M | $6.00M | $6.00M |
| BL3: Explosives Forensics Advanced Technology | $2.17M | $2.29M | $2.05M | $2.05M |
| BL6: Expedient Passive Protection Advanced Technology | $5.91M | $5.87M | $4.15M | $4.15M |
| BL8: Power Projection in A2AD Environments Adv Tech | $3.25M | $4.13M | $2.66M | $2.66M |
| BM1: Protection from Advanced Weapon Effects Adv Tech | $4.87M | $5.14M | $5.30M | $5.30M |
| CV5: Engineer Enablers Maneuver, LOG, & Sustainment Adv | $3.19M | $4.82M | $2.64M | $2.64M |
| DA2: SAFR Alternatives for Readiness Advanced Tech | $3.51M | $3.98M | $3.30M | $3.30M |
| DG2: Advanced Development of Obscurants | $3.21M | $2.83M | $2.65M | $2.65M |
| DI8: Environmental Security Resilience Adv Tech | — | $315.0K | $1.75M | $1.75M |
| BO3: MILITARY ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATION (CA) | $235.5M | $47.5M | — | — |
| CJ9: Ground Enabling University Adv Development | $4.06M | $6.05M | — | — |
| DI9: Comprehensive Adapt Operational Energy Adv Tech | — | $601.0K | — | — |
| BK9: Ground System Fluids and Fuels Adv Tech | $6.84M | — | — | — |
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Awards
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Lobbying Mentions
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Oversight
Department-level designation (not specific to this program)
GAO lists 5 high-risk areas for DOD as a whole. That designation covers the department, not Ground Advanced Technology — no program-specific GAO finding for this line is in the ingested data. See the DOD oversight record.
No research dossier for this program — dossiers cover 50 of 1,741 programs, the largest fully J-book-detailed lines by FY2026 requested dollars. why no dossier here? →