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Future Vertical Lift 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 | $219.1M |
| FY25 | $175.4M |
| FY26 | $66.7M |
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 | $180.2M | $220.3M | $255.3M | $265.4M | $219.1M | ||
| Enacted | – | $0 | $174.9M | $220.3M | $261.9M | $272.6M | $158.8M | $175.4M | |
| Request | – | – | $151.6M | $156.2M | $179.7M | $177.8M | $158.8M | $140.6M | $66.7M |
blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.
Asked vs spent: the PB2023 book requested $177.8M for FY2023; the PB2025 book reported $265.4M as actual total obligation authority — $87.6M above the request. 265.4 − 177.8 = 87.6 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 — Future Vertical Lift Advanced Technology
This Program Element (PE) matures and demonstrates manned and unmanned air vehicle and mission system technologies as well as advanced teaming capabilities to enable Army Future Vertical Lift. Emphasis is on platform and mission system technologies to enhance manned and unmanned air vehicle combat and combat support operations for attack, reconnaissance, air assault, survivability, logistics, and command and control missions. Within this PE, aviation technologies are advanced and integrated into realistic and robust demonstrations. Research in this PE contributes to the Army Science and Technology (S&T) air systems portfolio and is fully coordinated with efforts in PE 0602148A (Future Vertical Lift Technology), PE 0602183A (Air Platform Applied Research) and PE 0603043A (Air Platform Advanced Technology). A portion of this PE is directly aligned to the Future Vertical Lift (FVL) Army Modernization Priority. The cited research is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering S&T focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. The FY 2026 request was reduced by $9.46 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 $0.453 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 — Integ Mission Equip for Vert Lift Systems Adv Tech
This Project matures and demonstrates a mission systems architecture to support Future Vertical Lift (FVL) through utilization of a reconfigurable and flexible tiered architectural approach. Work in this Project is fully coordinated with Program Element (PE) 0602148A (Future Vertical Lift Technology). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Science and Technology focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Aviation & Missile Center (AvMC).
Mission — Multi-Role Small Guided Missile Advanced Tech
This Project matures and demonstrates a holistic lethality solution for current Army Aviation and Future Vertical Lift (FVL) Modernization Priority. This Project matures and demonstrates critical technology and designs components for future affordable rockets and missiles to provide overwhelming defeat of conventional and asymmetrical threats in all environments. Matures and demonstrates component technologies to enable an expeditionary short-to-medium range loitering maneuvering missile with man-in-the-loop capability for situational awareness, targeting, and lethal effects against hard and soft targets; and matures and demonstrates critical component technology and designs for future missiles that provide simultaneous multiple launch, control, and supervised autonomous terminal engagement of multiple missiles. Work in this Project is fully coordinated with Program Element (PE) 0602148A (Future Vertical Lift Technology) / Project AK4 (Multi-Role Small Guided Missile Tech). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Science and Technology focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Aviation & Missile Center (AvMC).
Mission — Air Launched Effects Advanced Technology
This Project develops and demonstrates the ability to launch an Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) from a manned or unmanned Future Vertical Lift (FVL) aircraft at tactical altitudes and to control the UAS from the cockpit or a crew station; and assesses the enabled capabilities and determine their relevance to current Army Aviation engagement and survivability portfolios. Work in this Project is fully coordinated with Program Element (PE) PE 0602148A (Future Vertical Lift Technology) / Project CH2 (Air Launched Effects Technology). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Science and Technology focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Aviation & Missile Center (AvMC).
Mission — Adv Teaming for Tactical Aviation Oper Adv Tech
This Project matures, demonstrates and drafts frameworks for autonomous teaming behaviors, autonomous decision making, targeting and visualization concepts in complex environments for Future Vertical Lift (FVL) and Future Unmanned Aircraft System (FUAS) platform formations in combined arms operations. Work in this Project is fully coordinated with Program Element (PE) 0602148A (Future Vertical Lift Technology) / Project AK9 (Adv Teaming for Tactical Aviation Operations Tech). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Science and Technology focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Aviation & Missile Center (AvMC) and Command, Control, Communication, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center.
Mission — Full Spectrum Targeting Advanced Technology
This Project demonstrates next generation targeting concepts for Future Vertical Lift (FVL) and Future Unmanned Aircraft System (FUAS) platforms. Matures automated threat detection algorithm and payload technologies that enable manned and unmanned Army aviation platforms to meet Electro-Optic / Infrared (EO/IR) Detect, Identify, Locate and Report (DILR) requirements in the forward line of sensors for Army Aviation. Work in this Project is fully coordinated with Program Element (PE) 0602148A (Future Vertical Lift Technology) / Project AK9 (Advanced Teaming for Tactical Aviation Operations Technology). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Science and Technology 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 — Holistic Sit Awareness and Dec Making Adv Tech
This Project matures and demonstrates a pilotage and decision aiding system that allows for carefree operations in complex and hostile environments through demonstration of a comprehensive human machine interface for all situational awareness (SA) domains (terrain & obstacles, threat, weather, & environment); and demonstration of decision aiding technologies to reduce cognitive loading of air crews during operations in complex and hostile environments. Work in this Project is fully coordinated with Program Element (PE) PE 0602148A (Future Vertical Lift Technology) / AL8 (Holistic Situational Awareness and Dec Making Tech). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Science and Technology focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) Analysis Center (DAC) and Aviation & Missile Center (AvMC).
Mission — Future Vertical Lift Air Platform Adv Tech (CA)
Congressional Interest Item funding provided for Future Vertical Lift Air Platform 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 — Adv Rotocraft Armaments Protection Sys
This Project investigates and demonstrates a holistic lethality solution for Future Vertical Lift (FVL) offensive and defensive applications, focused on but not limited to Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA). Develop components for use in multi-role armament solutions for fire control, armament systems, munitions and integration of threat agnostic countermeasures. Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0602183A (Air Platform Applied Research) / Project DE2 (Airborne Threat Defeat). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Science and Technology focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Armaments Center (AC).
Mission — FVL Radar Advanced Technologies
This Project matures and demonstrates next generation radar capabilities including next generation airborne radars apertures used for detection, tracking and precision targeting, navigation and fire control for multiple modalities. This project will demonstrate fully automated target recognition for radar, advanced processing techniques, distributed radar sensing and sensor coordination methods needed for targeting-quality detect, identify, locate and report (DILR) capabilities from airborne platforms. This project will further improve radar survivability and lethality across the Aviation ecosystem, speed target prosecution timelines for actionable information on the battlefield and will provide the Warfighter with persistent DILR enabling day/night/all-weather sensing in congested/contested Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) environments. Work in this Project is fully coordinated with Program Element (PE) 0602148A (Future Vertical Lift Technology) / Project CC3 (FVL Radar Technologies). 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 Command, Control, Communication, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center.
Mission — Holistic Team Survivability Adv Tech
This Project matures and demonstrates increased Future Vertical Lift (FVL) Family of Systems Survivability (FoS) in an advanced integrated air defense systems environment through a multi-layered approach. The approach focuses on maturing and demonstrating technologies for reducing aircraft susceptibility and vulnerability during pre-mission planning, mission execution (combat survivability and safety), and post-mission repair and return to service. Work in this Project is fully coordinated with Program Element (PE) 0602148A (Future Vertical Lift Technology) / Project CH3 (Holistic Team Survivability Technology). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Science and Technology focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Aviation & Missile Center (AvMC) and Command, Control, Communication, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center.
Mission — Power & Thermal Management for FVL Adv Tech
This Project matures and demonstrates at the system level, integrated electrical power technologies (including power generation, distribution, and control along with advanced energy storage) and thermal management technologies to provide significantly higher electrical power capability to Future Vertical Lift (FVL) aircraft while addressing consequential size, weight, pulsed power, and thermal issues. Provides power capability for advanced electric aeromechanical effectors, advanced mission systems that for example, execute algorithms for route planning and teaming, and for advanced survivability and electronic warfare capability. Will demonstrate software- in-the-loop performance of power & thermal management technologies to provide significantly higher electrical power capability to FVL aircraft while addressing consequential SWAP-C & thermal issues. Work in this Project is fully coordinated with Program Element (PE) 0602148A (Future Vertical Lift Technology) / Project CH4 (Power & Thermal Management for FVL Tech). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Science and Technology focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Aviation & Missile Center (AvMC) and Command, Control, Communication, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center.
Mission — Adaptive Avionics Advanced Technologies
This project will develop the ability for rapidly adaptable mission systems hardware and software that utilizes tactical situational awareness to optimize performance and will develop robust, secure and ruggedized computing elements, advanced architectures for efficient data storage and processing, algorithms for optimized computing resources and hardware qualification approaches. These resource technologies will be used in the development of solider tailorable software applications, adaptable security controls and dynamic use of system of systems capabilities across the Combat Aviation Brigade (CAB). Work in this Project is fully coordinated with Program Element (PE) 0602148A (Future Vertical Lift Technology) / Project CI4 (Adaptive Avionics Technologies). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Science and Technology focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Aviation & Missile Center (AvMC).
Mission — Future Vertical Lift Medical Advanced Technology
This Project evaluates, validates, matures and delivers medical guidelines and strategies to assure optimal Soldier performance and protection on the future technologically-intensive battlefield. Key elements of the program include: 1) tailored medical selection and retention standards for Future Vertical Lift (FVL); 2) medical strategies to maintain and enhance human performance in Multi-domain operations (MDO); 3) human-centered technology design guidance to accommodate the range of aircrew; 4) improved protection standards to reduce FVL occupant injury; and 5) operator state monitoring tools to enable scalable autonomy in FVL aircraft. Efforts in this Project further develop work done in Program Element 0602148A (Future Vertical Lift Technology) / Project BZ7 (Future Vertical Lift Medical Technologies). Work in this Project is performed by the United States Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory (USAARL).
Mission — High Speed Maneuverable Missile (HSMM) Adv Tech
The Project matures and demonstrates missile component technologies compatible with Future Vertical Lift (FVL) aviation platforms in a Multi-Domain Battle/Cross-domain Maneuver operational environment. Efforts mature technologies to support a smaller, faster, maneuverable missile capable of long-range non-line-of-sight attack in contested/degraded environments. Technology development increases aviation lethality and platform survivability by increasing missile standoff range, speed, and maneuverability, a faster rate of fire, shorter times of flight, and multi-threat lethal effects. Enables cross domain applications for aviation and ground vehicle platforms, including handoff capability, to engage threats in dead zones, and to operate in contested environments. Work in this Project is fully coordinated with PE 0602148 (Future Vertical Lift Technology) / Project CI5 (High Speed Maneuverable Missile Tech). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Science and Technology focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Aviation & Missile Center (AvMC).
Mission — Future Vertical Lift Advanced Technology
This Program Element (PE) matures and demonstrates manned and unmanned air vehicle and mission system technologies as well as advanced teaming capabilities to enable Army Future Vertical Lift. Emphasis is on platform and mission system technologies to enhance manned and unmanned air vehicle combat and combat support operations for attack, reconnaissance, air assault, survivability, logistics, and command and control missions. Within this PE, aviation technologies are advanced and integrated into realistic and robust demonstrations. Research in this PE contributes to the Army Science and Technology (S&T) air systems portfolio and is fully coordinated with efforts in PE 0602148A (Future Vertical Lift Technology), PE 0602183A (Air Platform Applied Research) and PE 0603043A (Air Platform Advanced Technology). A portion of this PE is directly aligned to the Future Vertical Lift (FVL) Army Modernization Priority. The cited research is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering S&T focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. The FY 2026 request was reduced by $9.46 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 $0.453 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 — Integ Mission Equip for Vert Lift Systems Adv Tech
This Project matures and demonstrates a mission systems architecture to support Future Vertical Lift (FVL) through utilization of a reconfigurable and flexible tiered architectural approach. Work in this Project is fully coordinated with Program Element (PE) 0602148A (Future Vertical Lift Technology). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Science and Technology focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Aviation & Missile Center (AvMC).
Mission — Multi-Role Small Guided Missile Advanced Tech
This Project matures and demonstrates a holistic lethality solution for current Army Aviation and Future Vertical Lift (FVL) Modernization Priority. This Project matures and demonstrates critical technology and designs components for future affordable rockets and missiles to provide overwhelming defeat of conventional and asymmetrical threats in all environments. Matures and demonstrates component technologies to enable an expeditionary short-to-medium range loitering maneuvering missile with man-in-the-loop capability for situational awareness, targeting, and lethal effects against hard and soft targets; and matures and demonstrates critical component technology and designs for future missiles that provide simultaneous multiple launch, control, and supervised autonomous terminal engagement of multiple missiles. Work in this Project is fully coordinated with Program Element (PE) 0602148A (Future Vertical Lift Technology) / Project AK4 (Multi-Role Small Guided Missile Tech). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Science and Technology focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Aviation & Missile Center (AvMC).
Mission — Air Launched Effects Advanced Technology
This Project develops and demonstrates the ability to launch an Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) from a manned or unmanned Future Vertical Lift (FVL) aircraft at tactical altitudes and to control the UAS from the cockpit or a crew station; and assesses the enabled capabilities and determine their relevance to current Army Aviation engagement and survivability portfolios. Work in this Project is fully coordinated with Program Element (PE) PE 0602148A (Future Vertical Lift Technology) / Project CH2 (Air Launched Effects Technology). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Science and Technology focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Aviation & Missile Center (AvMC).
Mission — Adv Teaming for Tactical Aviation Oper Adv Tech
This Project matures, demonstrates and drafts frameworks for autonomous teaming behaviors, autonomous decision making, targeting and visualization concepts in complex environments for Future Vertical Lift (FVL) and Future Unmanned Aircraft System (FUAS) platform formations in combined arms operations. Work in this Project is fully coordinated with Program Element (PE) 0602148A (Future Vertical Lift Technology) / Project AK9 (Adv Teaming for Tactical Aviation Operations Tech). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Science and Technology focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Aviation & Missile Center (AvMC) and Command, Control, Communication, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center.
Mission — Full Spectrum Targeting Advanced Technology
This Project demonstrates next generation targeting concepts for Future Vertical Lift (FVL) and Future Unmanned Aircraft System (FUAS) platforms. Matures automated threat detection algorithm and payload technologies that enable manned and unmanned Army aviation platforms to meet Electro-Optic / Infrared (EO/IR) Detect, Identify, Locate and Report (DILR) requirements in the forward line of sensors for Army Aviation. Work in this Project is fully coordinated with Program Element (PE) 0602148A (Future Vertical Lift Technology) / Project AK9 (Advanced Teaming for Tactical Aviation Operations Technology). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Science and Technology 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 — Holistic Sit Awareness and Dec Making Adv Tech
This Project matures and demonstrates a pilotage and decision aiding system that allows for carefree operations in complex and hostile environments through demonstration of a comprehensive human machine interface for all situational awareness (SA) domains (terrain & obstacles, threat, weather, & environment); and demonstration of decision aiding technologies to reduce cognitive loading of air crews during operations in complex and hostile environments. Work in this Project is fully coordinated with Program Element (PE) PE 0602148A (Future Vertical Lift Technology) / AL8 (Holistic Situational Awareness and Dec Making Tech). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Science and Technology focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) Analysis Center (DAC) and Aviation & Missile Center (AvMC).
Mission — Future Vertical Lift Air Platform Adv Tech (CA)
Congressional Interest Item funding provided for Future Vertical Lift Air Platform 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 — Adv Rotocraft Armaments Protection Sys
This Project investigates and demonstrates a holistic lethality solution for Future Vertical Lift (FVL) offensive and defensive applications, focused on but not limited to Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA). Develop components for use in multi-role armament solutions for fire control, armament systems, munitions and integration of threat agnostic countermeasures. Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0602183A (Air Platform Applied Research) / Project DE2 (Airborne Threat Defeat). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Science and Technology focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Armaments Center (AC).
Mission — FVL Radar Advanced Technologies
This Project matures and demonstrates next generation radar capabilities including next generation airborne radars apertures used for detection, tracking and precision targeting, navigation and fire control for multiple modalities. This project will demonstrate fully automated target recognition for radar, advanced processing techniques, distributed radar sensing and sensor coordination methods needed for targeting-quality detect, identify, locate and report (DILR) capabilities from airborne platforms. This project will further improve radar survivability and lethality across the Aviation ecosystem, speed target prosecution timelines for actionable information on the battlefield and will provide the Warfighter with persistent DILR enabling day/night/all-weather sensing in congested/contested Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) environments. Work in this Project is fully coordinated with Program Element (PE) 0602148A (Future Vertical Lift Technology) / Project CC3 (FVL Radar Technologies). 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 Command, Control, Communication, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center.
Mission — Holistic Team Survivability Adv Tech
This Project matures and demonstrates increased Future Vertical Lift (FVL) Family of Systems Survivability (FoS) in an advanced integrated air defense systems environment through a multi-layered approach. The approach focuses on maturing and demonstrating technologies for reducing aircraft susceptibility and vulnerability during pre-mission planning, mission execution (combat survivability and safety), and post-mission repair and return to service. Work in this Project is fully coordinated with Program Element (PE) 0602148A (Future Vertical Lift Technology) / Project CH3 (Holistic Team Survivability Technology). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Science and Technology focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Aviation & Missile Center (AvMC) and Command, Control, Communication, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center.
Mission — Power & Thermal Management for FVL Adv Tech
This Project matures and demonstrates at the system level, integrated electrical power technologies (including power generation, distribution, and control along with advanced energy storage) and thermal management technologies to provide significantly higher electrical power capability to Future Vertical Lift (FVL) aircraft while addressing consequential size, weight, pulsed power, and thermal issues. Provides power capability for advanced electric aeromechanical effectors, advanced mission systems that for example, execute algorithms for route planning and teaming, and for advanced survivability and electronic warfare capability. Will demonstrate software- in-the-loop performance of power & thermal management technologies to provide significantly higher electrical power capability to FVL aircraft while addressing consequential SWAP-C & thermal issues. Work in this Project is fully coordinated with Program Element (PE) 0602148A (Future Vertical Lift Technology) / Project CH4 (Power & Thermal Management for FVL Tech). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Science and Technology focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Aviation & Missile Center (AvMC) and Command, Control, Communication, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center.
Mission — Adaptive Avionics Advanced Technologies
This project will develop the ability for rapidly adaptable mission systems hardware and software that utilizes tactical situational awareness to optimize performance and will develop robust, secure and ruggedized computing elements, advanced architectures for efficient data storage and processing, algorithms for optimized computing resources and hardware qualification approaches. These resource technologies will be used in the development of solider tailorable software applications, adaptable security controls and dynamic use of system of systems capabilities across the Combat Aviation Brigade (CAB). Work in this Project is fully coordinated with Program Element (PE) 0602148A (Future Vertical Lift Technology) / Project CI4 (Adaptive Avionics Technologies). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Science and Technology focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Aviation & Missile Center (AvMC).
Mission — Future Vertical Lift Medical Advanced Technology
This Project evaluates, validates, matures and delivers medical guidelines and strategies to assure optimal Soldier performance and protection on the future technologically-intensive battlefield. Key elements of the program include: 1) tailored medical selection and retention standards for Future Vertical Lift (FVL); 2) medical strategies to maintain and enhance human performance in Multi-domain operations (MDO); 3) human-centered technology design guidance to accommodate the range of aircrew; 4) improved protection standards to reduce FVL occupant injury; and 5) operator state monitoring tools to enable scalable autonomy in FVL aircraft. Efforts in this Project further develop work done in Program Element 0602148A (Future Vertical Lift Technology) / Project BZ7 (Future Vertical Lift Medical Technologies). Work in this Project is performed by the United States Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory (USAARL).
Mission — High Speed Maneuverable Missile (HSMM) Adv Tech
The Project matures and demonstrates missile component technologies compatible with Future Vertical Lift (FVL) aviation platforms in a Multi-Domain Battle/Cross-domain Maneuver operational environment. Efforts mature technologies to support a smaller, faster, maneuverable missile capable of long-range non-line-of-sight attack in contested/degraded environments. Technology development increases aviation lethality and platform survivability by increasing missile standoff range, speed, and maneuverability, a faster rate of fire, shorter times of flight, and multi-threat lethal effects. Enables cross domain applications for aviation and ground vehicle platforms, including handoff capability, to engage threats in dead zones, and to operate in contested environments. Work in this Project is fully coordinated with PE 0602148 (Future Vertical Lift Technology) / Project CI5 (High Speed Maneuverable Missile Tech). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Science and Technology focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Work in this Project is performed by the Aviation & Missile Center (AvMC).
Justification
Accomplishments & Planned Programs (46)
Integrated Mission Equipment for Vertical Lift Systems
Develops and demonstrates a mission systems architecture to support FVL through utilization of a reconfigurable and flexible tiered architectural approach. The approach will consist of the following: Maturing and implementing Model Based Engineering methods and Modular Open Systems Architecture strategies; instantiating an architecture verification environment and developing an agile and resilient digital backbone to support the rapidly changing threat environment including the digital battleground.
Multiple Simultaneous Engagement Technologies (MSET)
Matures and demonstrates critical component technology and designs for future missiles that provide simultaneous multiple launch, control, and supervised autonomous terminal engagement of multiple missiles against stationary and moving hard/soft targets, image-based target discrimination/shared situation awareness/lock-on, and multi-missile control digital datalink with inter-missile cooperative networked communications. The end-state is a multi-missile Organic command and control (C2) solution that handles all aspects of sensor integration, fire control, and airspace management. This capability will support overwhelming lethal effects against anti-access/aerial denial (A2AD) / Integrated Air Defense Systems (IADS).
Air Launched Effects
Develop and demonstrate the ability to launch a future unmanned aircraft system (FUAS) from FVL platform at tactical altitudes, and to control the UAS from the cockpit or a crew station. Assess the enabled capabilities and determine their relevance to current Army Aviation engagement and survivability portfolios. These air-launched FUAS will employ a variety of non- lethal effects including: electronic attack, decoy, and communications relay.
Sensors / Multi-Function Imagers for Future Aviation
Mature and demonstrate multi-function sensing system concepts to increase FVL manned platform survivability and situational awareness. This will enable the manned FVL platforms to engage in multi-domain advanced teaming operations and leverage autonomous behaviors of both manned and unmanned aviation platforms. This effort will enable tactical operations in complex environments (e.g. high threat, degraded visuals, and urban) through the use of sensing modules suitable for multiple tactical applications. The multifunction sensor approach will mitigate the need for separate dedicated threat warning and situational awareness imaging sensor modules, thus reducing the total cost and logistics burden for future aviation systems.
Complex Advanced Teaming Operations
Mature and demonstrate teaming behaviors and autonomous decision making for mixed FVL and FUAS platform formations in complex and contested operational environments. Focus includes maturing solutions that overcome unique challenges associated with autonomy, teaming, range, communication, navigation and mission operations in littoral and urban / fringe environments, while adhering to Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) strategy for rapid insertion and affordability.
Advanced Target Acquisition Capabilities for Aviation Payloads
Mature and demonstrate advanced sensor payloads employing compact novel, lightweight advanced airborne optics to extend the target acquisition range across all desired imaging bands and improve survivability and lethality of small to medium sized unmanned aerial system (UAS). These sensor payloads will detect and recognize threats at extended ranges that support threat acquisition timelines required for remote airframes to acquire/socialize/respond to actionable threat information. Demonstrate payload automation to enable wide area reconnaissance detection and targeting functions. Exploit multiple payload modalities to inform target search and detection for teamed UAS platforms.
Heads-Up Eyes-Out (HUEO) Sensing for Aviation
Mature and develop platform agnostic sensing, processing and display capabilities for robust situational awareness to Army Aviators operating in complex threat environments and challenging weather and terrain conditions, leading to improved situational awareness, survivability, teaming and crew coordination. This effort will enable Aviation platforms to maintain safe separation between the ground, obstacles and adjacent aircraft in all weather conditions, reducing the loss of aircraft and/or death or injury to crewmembers. This situational awareness system will adhere to the Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) strategy for rapid insertion and affordability across multiple air platforms.
Full Spectrum Targeting
This effort will mature and demonstrate key targeting sensor system concepts to enable the FVL and FUAS modernization priorities. Effort will leverage advancements in laser, infrared imaging focal plane arrays, compact long-range optics, and multispectral system technologies to develop a stabilized, payload that can actively and/or passively image in multiple spectral bands simultaneously to provide robust targeting and situational awareness capabilities for the prevailing battlefield conditions. Effort will demonstrate the ability of multispectral sensing to autonomously scan areas of interest and identify tactical threats with reduced cognitive workloads through sensor fusion and automated spectral selection.
Holistic Situational Awareness and Decision Making
This program directly contributes to Future Vertical Lift (FVL) to ensure Future Aircraft pilots have the necessary situational awareness, accurate understanding of the tactical mission, and ability to decide faster than our adversaries.
Multi-function RF for FVL Platforms
This effort matures and demonstrates multi-function radio-frequency (RF) sensor technologies to support the FVL family of systems. It provides integrated software and hardware technologies that enable the use of common electronics and system components to support varied functions, such as enhanced situational awareness, threat-detection and localization, targeting, communications, and aircraft pilotage. This will result in improved performance for these critical functions and reduced requirements for size, weight, and power for mission equipment across FVL platforms.
Early Human Systems Integration Demonstrations
Human Systems Integration (HSI) analysis assesses and matures technologies to optimize pilot situational awareness and workload management, crew task automation and decision-aiding, information management, and advanced crew station interfaces. The objective of this effort is to reduce crew decision and task execution timelines in a tactically challenging mission environment.
Holistic Mission Manager (HMM) Demonstration
Investigate and demonstrate the capability of agent-based, software solutions to increase future and enduring Army vertical lift mission effectiveness by improving in-flight, aircrew mission management capabilities and processes in dynamic, time-constrained, tactical environments through information synthesis, automation, and autonomy.
Advanced Rotorcraft Armanents Protection System-Future Long Range Assault Aircraft
This effort matures and demonstrates a holistic small caliber lethality solution for FVL offensive applications. Integrates and demonstrates components for use in multi-role armament solutions for fire control, software, and armament systems.
Aviation CM Advanced Tech
This effort will mature and demonstrate countermeasure and lethality solutions necessary to protect current and future aviation platforms. The effort will focus on offensive and or defensive applications of armament systems for use in multi-role applications.
Multi-mission Airborne Radar
Advanced Digital radio frequency (RF) processing integration with final demonstration subsystem and system level radar hardware and software designs.
Advanced RF Multi-Function ALE Payload
This effort matures advanced distributed radar techniques and small form-factor hardware with advanced radar modes for targeting. It integrates and demonstrates distributed radar modes onboard Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP) constrained airborne platforms. This effort significantly enhances radar survivability for operation in contested MDO and enables rapid, timely target prosecution from small autonomous airborne platforms for day/night/all-weather persistent surveillance.
Advanced Radio Frequency Countermeasures
This effort matures and demonstrates adaptive sensor and countermeasure technologies that provide platform protection against guided threats. It develops software and hardware to increase probability of detection and defeat of threats to aviation platforms using modeling and simulation (M&S), hardware in the loop (HIL) assessment, and field events. It provides integrated software and sensor technologies to counter the characteristics of advanced and agile threats.
Holistic End to End Survivability
This task develops and maturates technologies to increase own ship and aviation team survivability by managing aircraft signatures, reducing aircraft system vulnerabilities, increased threat and hazard situational awareness and optimized responses to the evolving threat.
Optimized Energy for C5ISR Platforms Advanced Technology
Enable advanced Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) and survivability systems on FVL platforms through component development of improved high power and energy storage technologies, higher capacity lower Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP) cooling systems, and more efficient electrical architectures
Power & Thermal Management Tech Demo
Exploits fabrication, and systems integration lab validation testing to Technical Readiness Level (TRL) 6 of power and thermal management technologies to provide significantly higher electrical power capability to FVL aircraft while addressing thermal issues and reducing system weight/volume
Reconfigurable Mission Systems (RMS)
This effort will develop rapidly adaptable mission systems capabilities using affordable and sustainable approaches that will enable tactically reconfigurable and responsive software technologies. The objective for RMS is to dynamically create mission system capabilities to maintain constant overmatch against the enemy on the battlefield.
Biomedical Strategies to Support Design and Operation of Future Vertical Lift (FVL) Aircraft
This effort evaluates, validates, matures and delivers medical guidelines and strategies to assure optimal Soldier performance and protection on the future technologically-intensive battlefield. Key elements of the program include: 1) tailored medical selection and retention standards for FVL; 2) medical strategies to maintain and enhance human performance in MDO.); 3) human-centered technology design guidance to accommodate the range of aircrew; 4) improved protection standards to reduce FVL occupant injury; and 5) operator state monitoring tools to enable scalable autonomy in FVL aircraft.
HSMM Tech Maturation and Demo
Efforts provide technology maturation to support a maneuverable missile capable of both short-range direct attack and long-range non-line-of-sight attack with reduced time to target; reduced size and weight for increased load-out; capable of air and ground launched missions in degraded/contested environments.
Integrated Mission Equipment for Vertical Lift Systems
Develops and demonstrates a mission systems architecture to support FVL through utilization of a reconfigurable and flexible tiered architectural approach. The approach will consist of the following: Maturing and implementing Model Based Engineering methods and Modular Open Systems Architecture strategies; instantiating an architecture verification environment and developing an agile and resilient digital backbone to support the rapidly changing threat environment including the digital battleground.
Multiple Simultaneous Engagement Technologies (MSET)
Matures and demonstrates critical component technology and designs for future missiles that provide simultaneous multiple launch, control, and supervised autonomous terminal engagement of multiple missiles against stationary and moving hard/soft targets, image-based target discrimination/shared situation awareness/lock-on, and multi-missile control digital datalink with inter-missile cooperative networked communications. The end-state is a multi-missile Organic command and control (C2) solution that handles all aspects of sensor integration, fire control, and airspace management. This capability will support overwhelming lethal effects against anti-access/aerial denial (A2AD) / Integrated Air Defense Systems (IADS).
Air Launched Effects
Develop and demonstrate the ability to launch a future unmanned aircraft system (FUAS) from FVL platform at tactical altitudes, and to control the UAS from the cockpit or a crew station. Assess the enabled capabilities and determine their relevance to current Army Aviation engagement and survivability portfolios. These air-launched FUAS will employ a variety of non- lethal effects including: electronic attack, decoy, and communications relay.
Sensors / Multi-Function Imagers for Future Aviation
Mature and demonstrate multi-function sensing system concepts to increase FVL manned platform survivability and situational awareness. This will enable the manned FVL platforms to engage in multi-domain advanced teaming operations and leverage autonomous behaviors of both manned and unmanned aviation platforms. This effort will enable tactical operations in complex environments (e.g. high threat, degraded visuals, and urban) through the use of sensing modules suitable for multiple tactical applications. The multifunction sensor approach will mitigate the need for separate dedicated threat warning and situational awareness imaging sensor modules, thus reducing the total cost and logistics burden for future aviation systems.
Complex Advanced Teaming Operations
Mature and demonstrate teaming behaviors and autonomous decision making for mixed FVL and FUAS platform formations in complex and contested operational environments. Focus includes maturing solutions that overcome unique challenges associated with autonomy, teaming, range, communication, navigation and mission operations in littoral and urban / fringe environments, while adhering to Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) strategy for rapid insertion and affordability.
Advanced Target Acquisition Capabilities for Aviation Payloads
Mature and demonstrate advanced sensor payloads employing compact novel, lightweight advanced airborne optics to extend the target acquisition range across all desired imaging bands and improve survivability and lethality of small to medium sized unmanned aerial system (UAS). These sensor payloads will detect and recognize threats at extended ranges that support threat acquisition timelines required for remote airframes to acquire/socialize/respond to actionable threat information. Demonstrate payload automation to enable wide area reconnaissance detection and targeting functions. Exploit multiple payload modalities to inform target search and detection for teamed UAS platforms.
Heads-Up Eyes-Out (HUEO) Sensing for Aviation
Mature and develop platform agnostic sensing, processing and display capabilities for robust situational awareness to Army Aviators operating in complex threat environments and challenging weather and terrain conditions, leading to improved situational awareness, survivability, teaming and crew coordination. This effort will enable Aviation platforms to maintain safe separation between the ground, obstacles and adjacent aircraft in all weather conditions, reducing the loss of aircraft and/or death or injury to crewmembers. This situational awareness system will adhere to the Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) strategy for rapid insertion and affordability across multiple air platforms.
Full Spectrum Targeting
This effort will mature and demonstrate key targeting sensor system concepts to enable the FVL and FUAS modernization priorities. Effort will leverage advancements in laser, infrared imaging focal plane arrays, compact long-range optics, and multispectral system technologies to develop a stabilized, payload that can actively and/or passively image in multiple spectral bands simultaneously to provide robust targeting and situational awareness capabilities for the prevailing battlefield conditions. Effort will demonstrate the ability of multispectral sensing to autonomously scan areas of interest and identify tactical threats with reduced cognitive workloads through sensor fusion and automated spectral selection.
Holistic Situational Awareness and Decision Making
This program directly contributes to Future Vertical Lift (FVL) to ensure Future Aircraft pilots have the necessary situational awareness, accurate understanding of the tactical mission, and ability to decide faster than our adversaries.
Multi-function RF for FVL Platforms
This effort matures and demonstrates multi-function radio-frequency (RF) sensor technologies to support the FVL family of systems. It provides integrated software and hardware technologies that enable the use of common electronics and system components to support varied functions, such as enhanced situational awareness, threat-detection and localization, targeting, communications, and aircraft pilotage. This will result in improved performance for these critical functions and reduced requirements for size, weight, and power for mission equipment across FVL platforms.
Early Human Systems Integration Demonstrations
Human Systems Integration (HSI) analysis assesses and matures technologies to optimize pilot situational awareness and workload management, crew task automation and decision-aiding, information management, and advanced crew station interfaces. The objective of this effort is to reduce crew decision and task execution timelines in a tactically challenging mission environment.
Holistic Mission Manager (HMM) Demonstration
Investigate and demonstrate the capability of agent-based, software solutions to increase future and enduring Army vertical lift mission effectiveness by improving in-flight, aircrew mission management capabilities and processes in dynamic, time-constrained, tactical environments through information synthesis, automation, and autonomy.
Advanced Rotorcraft Armanents Protection System-Future Long Range Assault Aircraft
This effort matures and demonstrates a holistic small caliber lethality solution for FVL offensive applications. Integrates and demonstrates components for use in multi-role armament solutions for fire control, software, and armament systems.
Aviation CM Advanced Tech
This effort will mature and demonstrate countermeasure and lethality solutions necessary to protect current and future aviation platforms. The effort will focus on offensive and or defensive applications of armament systems for use in multi-role applications.
Multi-mission Airborne Radar
Advanced Digital radio frequency (RF) processing integration with final demonstration subsystem and system level radar hardware and software designs.
Advanced RF Multi-Function ALE Payload
This effort matures advanced distributed radar techniques and small form-factor hardware with advanced radar modes for targeting. It integrates and demonstrates distributed radar modes onboard Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP) constrained airborne platforms. This effort significantly enhances radar survivability for operation in contested MDO and enables rapid, timely target prosecution from small autonomous airborne platforms for day/night/all-weather persistent surveillance.
Advanced Radio Frequency Countermeasures
This effort matures and demonstrates adaptive sensor and countermeasure technologies that provide platform protection against guided threats. It develops software and hardware to increase probability of detection and defeat of threats to aviation platforms using modeling and simulation (M&S), hardware in the loop (HIL) assessment, and field events. It provides integrated software and sensor technologies to counter the characteristics of advanced and agile threats.
Holistic End to End Survivability
This task develops and maturates technologies to increase own ship and aviation team survivability by managing aircraft signatures, reducing aircraft system vulnerabilities, increased threat and hazard situational awareness and optimized responses to the evolving threat.
Optimized Energy for C5ISR Platforms Advanced Technology
Enable advanced Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) and survivability systems on FVL platforms through component development of improved high power and energy storage technologies, higher capacity lower Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP) cooling systems, and more efficient electrical architectures
Power & Thermal Management Tech Demo
Exploits fabrication, and systems integration lab validation testing to Technical Readiness Level (TRL) 6 of power and thermal management technologies to provide significantly higher electrical power capability to FVL aircraft while addressing thermal issues and reducing system weight/volume
Reconfigurable Mission Systems (RMS)
This effort will develop rapidly adaptable mission systems capabilities using affordable and sustainable approaches that will enable tactically reconfigurable and responsive software technologies. The objective for RMS is to dynamically create mission system capabilities to maintain constant overmatch against the enemy on the battlefield.
Biomedical Strategies to Support Design and Operation of Future Vertical Lift (FVL) Aircraft
This effort evaluates, validates, matures and delivers medical guidelines and strategies to assure optimal Soldier performance and protection on the future technologically-intensive battlefield. Key elements of the program include: 1) tailored medical selection and retention standards for FVL; 2) medical strategies to maintain and enhance human performance in MDO.); 3) human-centered technology design guidance to accommodate the range of aircrew; 4) improved protection standards to reduce FVL occupant injury; and 5) operator state monitoring tools to enable scalable autonomy in FVL aircraft.
HSMM Tech Maturation and Demo
Efforts provide technology maturation to support a maneuverable missile capable of both short-range direct attack and long-range non-line-of-sight attack with reduced time to target; reduced size and weight for increased load-out; capable of air and ground launched missions in degraded/contested environments.
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 | $219.1M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army | A | FY25 Enacted | $175.4M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army | A | FY25 Total | $175.4M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army | A | FY26 Disc. Request | $66.7M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army | A | FY26 Total | $66.7M |
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 | $219.1M | $175.4M | $66.7M | $66.7M |
| AL1: Adv Teaming for Tactical Aviation Oper Adv Tech | $38.9M | $35.0M | $25.1M | $25.1M |
| AL7: Full Spectrum Targeting Advanced Technology | $8.77M | $8.65M | $6.22M | $6.22M |
| AL9: Holistic Sit Awareness and Dec Making Adv Tech | $20.5M | $7.45M | $10.9M | $10.9M |
| CA8: Adv Rotocraft Armaments Protection Sys | $6.22M | $4.76M | $201.0K | $201.0K |
| CC4: FVL Radar Advanced Technologies | $4.24M | — | $2.25M | $2.25M |
| CG1: Holistic Team Survivability Adv Tech | $14.9M | $14.4M | $10.4M | $10.4M |
| CI8: Adaptive Avionics Advanced Technologies | — | $7.47M | $7.59M | $7.59M |
| CJ5: Future Vertical Lift Medical Advanced Technology | $1.31M | $1.59M | $1.35M | $1.35M |
| CK2: High Speed Maneuverable Missile (HSMM) Adv Tech | — | $16.0M | $2.63M | $2.63M |
| AJ9: Integ Mission Equip for Vert Lift Systems Adv Tech | $16.6M | $2.40M | — | — |
| AK5: Multi-Role Small Guided Missile Advanced Tech | $11.6M | $6.11M | — | — |
| AK8: Air Launched Effects Advanced Technology | $27.1M | $20.6M | — | — |
| BP8: Future Vertical Lift Air Platform Adv Tech (CA) | $64.8M | $50.9M | — | — |
| CH7: Power & Thermal Management for FVL Adv Tech | $4.22M | — | — | — |
No follow-the-dollar view — this program's awards haven't been crosswalked at high confidence (flows cover 17 of 1,741 programs). why coverage is partial? →
Awards
No awards are linked to this program element at high confidence — the budget→award crosswalk only asserts links it can defend, and this line has none yet.
Lobbying Mentions
No Senate LDA lobbying filing in the tracked data mentions this program element by code or alias.
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 Future Vertical Lift 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? →