Survivability/Lethality Analysis

Mission — Army Survivability Analysis & Evaluation Supp source

This Project funds objective vulnerability assessment products necessary for the inherently-governmental Army Test & Evaluation Command/Army Evaluation Center (ATEC/ AEC) mission, and for the Research and Development and analysis communities. Products result from investigating, analyzing, assessing, experimenting and reporting on the survivability of Soldiers, and on the survivability, lethality and vulnerability (SLV) of the highest-priority Army and threat systems. Products are leveraged within the Army Futures Command (AFC), the Cross-Functional Teams (CFTs), and Program Managers / Program Executive Offices (PM/PEO) to exercise constructive design influence over materiel development and to provide credible engineering-level underpinning and input to the Army Analytical Community. This Project provides quantitative analyses and data for fielded and developmental systems as the Army pursues its modernization priorities and ensures readiness through the fielding of lethal and survivable systems for multi-domain operations. This Project funds engineering level analysis and experimentation supporting all CFTs including Long Range Precision Fires systems, Next Generation Combat Vehicles, Future Vertical Lift, Network / Command, Control, Communications (C3I), Air & Missile Defense, Soldier Lethality, and other highest Army priority efforts Principal data and analysis domains are integrated materiel performance, cyber resilience, human engineering and performance, Electronic Warfare threat defense, and mission threat analysis. Assessments funded by this Project are conducted across the spectrum of multi-domain battlefield threats to include: guns, missiles, mines and other methods of inflicting physical damage; jammers, countermeasures, and other electronic warfare techniques; cyber threats from insiders to nation states; and directed energy weapons. Many different kinds of technical capabilities are used to generate these analyses, including specialized equipment, modeling & simulation, and experimental facilities. This Project ensures these capabilities can represent a live, virtual, or constructive hostile environment required for credible assessment, thus enabling evaluators, developers, users, and decision makers to make informed Acquisition judgments. This technical data from earliest AFC experimentation to final operational test is retained and serves as AFC's repository of analysis and information for supporting an ever-improving body of evidence to drive Milestone Decisions. This body of evidence enables properly informed decisions concerning acquisition and production; maximizes Army overmatch in systems and tactics; informs investment priorities; and mitigates system weaknesses prior to actual combat. Technical data and analysis results funded by this Project are efficiently leveraged for many different Army uses, reducing total cost to the Army by eliminating the need for duplicative capabilities funded by individual system developers. Central funding of this mission assures accurate and consistent technical treatment across all formal system Evaluations, and across the Army's analytical community as it conducts analyses of alternatives and other studies. The United States (U.S.) Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) and ATEC/AEC integrate the results from the work program into Army's formal Evaluation process to ensure ATEC can comply with its legally-mandated responsibility to assess system survivability along with effectiveness and suitability. Work in this Project is performed by the United States Army Futures Command (AFC), U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) Analysis Center (DAC), Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD

Mission — Survivability/Lethality Analysis source

This Program Element (PE) funds objective vulnerability assessment products necessary for the inherently-governmental Army Test & Evaluation Command/Army Evaluation Center (ATEC/ AEC) mission and for the Research and Development and analysis communities. Products result from investigating, analyzing, assessing, experimenting and reporting on the survivability of Soldiers, and on the survivability, lethality and vulnerability (SLV) of the highest-priority Army and threat systems. Products are leveraged within the Army Futures Command (AFC), the Cross Functional Teams (CFTs) and Program Managers / Program Executive Offices (PM/PEO) to exercise constructive design influence over materiel development and to provide credible engineering-level underpinning and input to the Army Analytical Community. This PE provides quantitative analyses and data for fielded and developmental systems as the Army pursues its modernization priorities and ensures readiness through the fielding of lethal and survivable systems for multi-domain operations. This PE funds engineering level analysis and experimentation supporting all CFTs including Long Range Precision Fires systems, Next Generation Combat Vehicles, Future Vertical Lift, Network / Command, Control, Communications (C3I), Air & Missile Defense, Soldier Lethality, and other high Army priority efforts. Principal data and analysis domains are integrated materiel performance, cyber resilience, human engineering and performance, Electronic Warfare threat defense, and mission threat analysis. Assessments funded by this PE are conducted across the spectrum of multi-domain battlefield threats to include: guns, missiles, mines and other methods of inflicting physical damage; jammers, countermeasures, and other electronic warfare techniques; cyber threats from insiders to nation states; and directed energy weapons. Many different kinds of technical capabilities are used to generate these analyses, including specialized equipment, modeling & simulation, and experimental facilities. This PE ensures these capabilities can represent a live, virtual, or constructive hostile environment required for credible assessment, thus enabling evaluators, developers, users, and decision makers to make informed acquisition judgments. This technical data from earliest AFC experimentation to final operational test is retained and serves as AFC's repository of analysis and information for supporting an ever-improving body of evidence to drive Milestone Decisions. This body of evidence enables properly informed decisions concerning acquisition and production; maximizes Army overmatch in systems and tactics; informs investment priorities; and mitigates system weaknesses prior to actual combat. Technical data and analysis results funded by this PE are efficiently leveraged for many different Army uses, reducing total cost to the Army by eliminating the need for duplicative capabilities funded by individual system developers. Central funding of this mission assures accurate and consistent technical treatment across all formal system Evaluations, and across the Army's analytical community as it conducts analyses of alternatives and other studies. The United States (U.S.) Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) and ATEC/AEC integrate the results from the work program into Army's formal Evaluation process to ensure ATEC can comply with its legally-mandated responsibility to assess system survivability along with effectiveness and suitability. The FY 2026 request was reduced by $0.167 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 $0.39 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."

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