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Counter Improvised-Threat Demonstration, Prototype Development, and Testing

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What it is
Counter Improvised-Threat Demonstration, Prototype Development, and Testing — a research & development program run by Army.
What changed
-$11.8M FY25→26
Who gets it
No award linkage at high confidence.

Budget Figures

FY24 Actuals
$15.8M
FY25 Total
$17.3M
FY26 Request
$5.49M
FY25→26 Change
-$11.8M

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? →

Budget Trajectory
FY24: $15.8MFY25: $17.3MFY26: $5.49MFY24FY25FY26
FY24
$15.8M
FY25
$17.3M
FY26
$5.49M
Decade view — each figure cites its own President's Budget edition
FY2019 actuals — PB2021 editionFY2020 actuals — PB2022 editionFY2021 actuals — PB2023 editionFY2022 actuals — PB2024 editionFY2023 actuals — PB2025 editionFY2024 actuals — PB2026 editionFY2020 enacted — PB2021 editionFY2021 enacted — PB2022 editionFY2022 enacted — PB2023 editionFY2023 enacted — PB2024 editionFY2024 enacted — PB2025 editionFY2025 enacted — PB2026 editionFY2021 request — PB2021 editionFY2022 request — PB2022 editionFY2023 request — PB2023 editionFY2024 request — PB2024 editionFY2025 request — PB2025 editionFY2026 request — PB2026 editionFY19FY26

● actuals (line)  ·  ○ enacted  ·  ◇ request — gaps are editions the program is absent from, never interpolated.

SeriesFY19FY20FY21FY22FY23FY24FY25FY26
Actuals$0$0$13.3M$12.9M$14.3M$15.8M
Enacted$0$13.3M$13.4M$14.8M$16.4M$17.3M
Request$13.8M$13.4M$15.8M$16.4M$17.3M$5.49M

blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.

Asked vs spent: the PB2023 book requested $15.8M for FY2023; the PB2025 book reports $14.3M actually spent — $1.54M below the request.

Program Lineage

No predecessor/successor lineage was recorded for this program element — no FY-to-FY transfer into or out of this line was stated in the ingested J-books, and none was inferred from the program structure.

Description

Mission Counter Improvised-Threat Demonstration, Prototype Development, and Testing

This Program Element (PE) develops prototypes and demonstrates technology for detecting and defeating Improvised Explosive Devices (IED). The goal of this Project is to mature technology to increase the ability of deployed forces to positively identify IEDs with minimal false alarms and increase the rate of advance of route clearance missions. Additionally, the objective is to positively neutralize or mitigate the effects of IEDs with minimal collateral damage. Driven by the current threat facing deployed U.S. forces, this PE enables rapid development and delivery of capabilities that enable the detection, neutralization, and risk mitigation of IEDs and their effects. These technologies are intended to be matured and demonstrated for integration onto existing Department of Defense weapon systems. This PE is coordinated with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (USD/R&E) and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). Work in this Project is managed by Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center. Work is performed by Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology and the Army Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) Enterprise with oversight from Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology for Research and Technology (DASA R&T). The FY 2026 request was reduced by $1.797 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 $0.038 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 Counter Improvised-Threat Demonstration

This Project develops prototypes and demonstrates technology for detecting and defeating Improvised Explosive Devices (IED). The goal of this Project is to mature technology to increase the ability of deployed forces to positively identify IEDs with minimal false alarms and increase the rate of advance of maneuver forces. An additional goal is to positively neutralize IEDs with minimal collateral damage. Driven by the current threat facing deployed U.S. forces, this project enables rapid development and delivery of capabilities that enable the detection, neutralization, and mitigation of IEDs and their effects. This Project is coordinated with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (USD/R&E) and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA).

Justification

Accomplishments & Planned Programs (7)

Teamed IED Detection Technology Demonstration

This effort demonstrates the teaming of small unmanned aerial and ground systems to cooperatively detect IED emplacements and indicators of IED emplacements. This effort optimizes unmanned system teaming to increase the confidence in IED detection using multiple platforms with multiple sensor modes, and integrating their information. This effort will conduct a demonstration in FY 2025 using multiple heterogeneous platforms to reduce false alarms for IED detection.

Anti-Armor IED Detection Technology Demonstration

This effort demonstrates anti-armor IED detection using technologies to include high resolution electro-optical / infrared and other sensors to detect component characteristics to identify the location of IEDs prior to detonation.

IED Detection Evaluation in Varied Environments

This effort conducts characterization of mature IED detection system in in varying environments to ensure performance is known in various environmental conditions. Will conduct a series of annual assessments in varying environments, including hot, wet, and artic to ensure necessary performance.

Neutralization and Mitigation Technology Evaluation in Varied Environments

This effort will develop, mature and automate technologies capable of neutralizing IEDs with complex emplacements and configurations. It will evaluate and optimize neutralization capabilities in varied environmental conditions.

Maneuver IED Detection and Mitigation Technology Demonstration

This effort focuses on the challenges of the force to detect and mitigate hidden IEDs in a battlefield environment. The detection is focused on anti-armor threats with mitigation through device neutralization or marking. The demonstration will employ detection capabilities on multiple platforms, manned and unmanned, to integrate mature technologies for detection and neutralization of IEDs.

Enhanced Personnel Borne IED Detection Prototyping

This effort evaluates the performance of prototype millimeter wave radar and imaging infrared sensors to detect concealed Personnel Borne IEDs (PBIEDs) while deployed. The focus will be on low size, weight and power with high probability of detection and low false alarm rates. This effort will evaluate mature solutions for applicability to PBIED detection in environments with both combatant and non-combatant populations.

Radio Controlled IED Interoperability Evaluation

This effort conducts regular assessments of interoperability of Radio Control IED neutralization technologies in the presence of battlefield and commercial radio frequency signals to ensure performance is maintained. This will be conducted with foreign partners and hosted by different countries.

Budget Line Items(workbook-cited)

Exhibit R-1

AccountOrgTypeAmount
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, ArmyAFY24 Actuals$15.8M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, ArmyAFY25 Enacted$17.3M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, ArmyAFY25 Total$17.3M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, ArmyAFY26 Disc. Request$5.49M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, ArmyAFY26 Total$5.49M

Budget Details(R-2/P-40 facts)

ProjectFY24 ActualsFY25 TotalFY26 BaseFY26 Request
CD4: Counter Improvised-Threat Demonstration$15.8M$17.3M$5.49M$5.49M
Program Element$15.8M$17.3M$5.49M$5.49M

No follow-the-dollar view — this program's awards haven't been crosswalked at high confidence (flows cover 17 of 1741 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.

No research dossier for this program — dossiers cover 50 of 1741 programs, the largest fully J-book-detailed lines by FY2026 requested dollars. why no dossier here? →