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Suite of Survivability Enhancement Systems - EMD
Budget figures
FY2026 award data is a partial year — USAspending reports awards on a rolling basis, and this corpus runs through 2026-09-04. why partial FY2026 data? →
Budget trajectory
| Fiscal year | Amount |
|---|---|
| FY24 | $70.4M |
| FY25 | $77.9M |
| FY26 | $76.9M |
All series figures: R-1 TOA · PB2026
Decade view
P-1/R-1 workbook TOA basis, shown compact in $B/$M (the workbook records USD thousands); each figure cites its own President's Budget edition
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 | FY16 | FY17 | FY18 | FY19 | FY20 | FY21 | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actuals | $0 | $0 | $90.2M | $50.4M | $81.9M | $62.0M | $93.2M | $75.5M | $70.4M | ||
| Enacted | – | $0 | $98.6M | $52.8M | $85.2M | $62.0M | $96.1M | $100.4M | $79.3M | $77.9M | |
| Request | – | $98.6M | $69.2M | $98.7M | $82.5M | $106.4M | $109.7M | $79.3M | $77.9M | $76.9M |
blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.
Asked vs spent: the PB2023 book requested $109.7M for FY2023; the PB2025 book reported $75.5M as actual total obligation authority — $34.2M below the request. 75.5 − 109.7 = -34.2 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 — Suite of Survivability Enhancement Systems - EMD
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
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.
Justification
Accomplishments & Planned Programs (4)
Vehicle Protection System Base Kit Integration of Non-Developmental Items (NDI) and Developmental Technologies
VPS Base Kit (VBK) is a Modular Open Systems Architecture (MOSA) survivability systems controller and is the foundation for future hard kill and soft kill Active Protection Systems. The VBK will integrate with both Non-Developmental Items and developmental items. Through software and a MOSA design approach, the VBK enables tailored vehicle Survivability Sets specific to platforms that enable future technology insertion to detect, mitigate and defeat evolving threats. The Laser Warning Receiver (LWR) provides early threat detection to the vehicle crew through the VBK. The integration efforts includes qualification testing, installation kit design and development, logistics products, prototype manufacturing, and platform testing.
Survivability Improvements
Receive transitioned Science and Technology (S&T) protection technologies and mature each through additional characterization, demonstrations and development, to enable future integration on ground combat and tactical vehicles. Identify mature active, reactive and passive survivability capabilities and integrate each capability onto ground combat and tactical vehicles. The integration efforts includes qualification testing, installation kit design and development, logistics products, prototype manufacturing, and platform testing.
Vehicle Protection Suite Government Engineering and Program Management
Government program management support and program oversight.
VPS Trade Study
VPS will execute trade studies and feasibility assessments to identify future technology insertion opportunities. These trade studies will assess how the Army adjusts operationally with the additional survivability capabilities and inform future formation protection requirements. The trade study and feasibility assessments will look at emerging threats and identify capabilities used to protect against evolving threats. The trade studies and feasibility assessments will leverage technologies across a spectrum of survivability mechanisms including detection avoidance, threat detection, threat intercept and threat mitigation and how they can work together to provide protection.
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 | $70.4M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army | A | FY25 Enacted | $77.9M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army | A | FY25 Total | $77.9M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army | A | FY26 Disc. Request | $76.9M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army | A | FY26 Total | $76.9M |
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.
Wider than this screen — swipe the table sideways for the remaining fiscal-year columns.
| Project | FY24 Actuals | FY25 Total | FY26 Base | FY26 Request |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Program Element | $70.4M | $77.9M | $76.9M | $76.9M |
| FE8: Vehicle Protection Suite | $70.4M | $77.9M | $76.9M | $76.9M |
Follow the dollar
No follow-the-dollar view — this program's awards haven't been crosswalked at high confidence (flows cover 312 of 1,938 programs). why coverage is partial? →
Awards
No awards are linked to this program element at high or medium 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 Suite of Survivability Enhancement Systems - EMD. No program-specific GAO finding for this line is in the ingested data. See the DOD oversight record.
Program dossier
No research dossier for this program — dossiers cover 50 of 1,938 programs, the largest fully J-book-detailed lines by FY2026 requested dollars. why no dossier here? →
Primary sources
Open any budget figure for its exact receipt. Verified line items lead with the highlighted government PDF; original spreadsheets download with their budget edition and exhibit in the filename.
Budget totals · TOA sources
FY2026 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J128
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2026_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2018 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J116
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2018_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2019 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J119
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2019_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2020 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J142
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2020_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2021 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J150
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2021_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2022 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J120
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2022_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2023 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J122
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2023_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2024 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J120
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2024_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2025 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J119
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2025_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
Detailed budget justification
The related TOA spreadsheets above use a different accounting basis from R-2/P-40 detail. Their amounts are not assumed to match these detailed sources.
RDTE - Vol 3 - Budget Activity 5A · www.asafm.army.mil
PDF page 332