Suite of Survivability Enhancement Systems - EMD

Mission — Suite of Survivability Enhancement Systems - EMD source

This funding line is a key enabler of the Army Modernization Priorities in support of the Vehicle Protection Suite (VPS) program. Current ground combat vehicle platforms and tactical wheeled vehicles lack the ability to effectively detect, track, divert, disrupt, neutralize, or destroy incoming direct or indirect fired threat munitions. Current solutions to defeat these threats, Explosive Reactive Armor (ERA) and Slat armor, do not provide preemptive or active protection and impose secondary blast hazards to crew, dismounted soldiers, and adjacent vehicles and equipment. The Suite of Vehicle Protection Systems will develop, mature and integrate solutions onto multiple ground combat vehicles and tactical vehicles to increase the protection of the Army's ground systems from both current and next generation direct or indirect fired threat munitions. The Vehicle Protection Suite (VPS) Project (FE8) will design, mature, integrate, evaluate and field combinations of active, reactive, and passive protection capabilities and leverage both Horizontal Technology Integration (HTI) principles and the Modular Open System Architecture with the Army's Vehicle Protection System Base Kit (VBK) to develop tailored vehicle Survivability Sets specific to platforms that will mitigate existing protection gaps, allow for future technology insertion to mitigate and defeat evolving threats, and minimize the impact to the current capabilities hosted on Army ground combat and tactical vehicles. The protection capabilities will leverage technologies across a spectrum of survivability mechanisms including detection avoidance, threat detection, threat intercept and threat mitigation. The FY 2026 request was reduced by $0.183 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."

Mission — Vehicle Protection Suite source

Current ground combat vehicle platforms and tactical wheeled vehicles lack the ability to effectively detect, track, divert, disrupt, neutralize, or destroy incoming direct or indirect fired threat munitions. Current solutions to defeat these threats, Explosive Reactive Armor (ERA) and Slat armor, do not provide preemptive or active protection and impose secondary blast hazards to crew, dismounted soldiers, and adjacent vehicles and equipment. The Suite of Vehicle Protection Systems will develop, mature and integrate solutions onto multiple ground combat vehicles and tactical vehicles to increase the protection of the Army's ground systems from both current and next generation direct or indirect fired threat munitions. The Vehicle Protection Suite (VPS) Project (FE8) will design, mature, integrate, evaluate and field combinations of active, reactive, and passive protection capabilities and leverage both Horizontal Technology Integration (HTI) principles and the Modular Open System Architecture with the Army's Vehicle Protection System Base Kit (VBK) to develop tailored vehicle Survivability Sets specific to platforms that will mitigate existing protection gaps, allow for future technology insertion to mitigate and defeat evolving threats, and minimize the impact to the current capabilities hosted on Army ground combat and tactical vehicles. The protection capabilities will leverage technologies across a spectrum of survivability mechanisms including detection avoidance, threat detection, threat intercept and threat mitigation.

Accomplishments & Planned Programs (4)