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BRADLEY FIRE SUPPORT TEAM (BFIST) VEHICLE
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 | $5.23M |
| FY25 | $7.25M |
| FY26 | $4.68M |
All series figures: P-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 | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actuals | $0 | – | $5.23M | ||
| Enacted | – | $0 | $5.23M | $7.25M | |
| Request | – | – | $5.23M | $7.25M | $4.68M |
blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.
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
Description — BRADLEY FIRE SUPPORT TEAM (BFIST) VEHICLE
The Bradley Fire Support Team (BFIST) vehicle replaced the aging M981 Fire Support Vehicle used by the Fire Support Team (FIST) in the Armored Brigade Combat Teams (ABCT). The BFIST contributes to success on the battlefield by accurately locating and designating targets and then combining this information to develop and execute fire support plans. The BFIST allows fire support operations to be performed on the battlefield in vehicles with the same signature, survivability, and mobility as the other Bradley Fighting Vehicles (BFV) in the maneuver units it supports. There are 303 Bradley Fire Support Team (BFIST) vehicles fielded with three variants: M7A4 BFIST, A3 BFIST with Fire Support Sensor System (FS3), and M7 BFIST SA (Situation Awareness). This supports funding for the components, application, and engineering and logistics support of improvements designed to resolve problems identified in the field, engineering support related to production, improved safety, integrate new equipment, develop and integrate mod kits, address obsolescence issues, and bring the vehicle into compliance with transportability and recovery requirements. All three variants enable company Fire Support Teams (FIST) and company fire support officers to plan, coordinate and execute timely, accurate indirect artillery and mortar fires. The Fire Support Sensor System (FS3) on all vehicles provides automated enhanced surveillance, target acquisition, target identification, target designation, target tracking, position location, and communications functionality under armor while mounted and target acquisition and designation while dismounted. All variants are being upgraded to include Fire Observer Software (FOS) on the Mounted Family of Computer System (MFoCS), TALIN 5000 Inertial Navigation Unit (INU); and Target Accuracy upgrades to meet Category I (CAT I) Target Location Error (TLE) specifications - the highest level TLE obtainable. After upgrades are completed, all Bradley Fire Support Team (BFIST) vehicles will meet the Operational Requirements Document (ORD) objective requirements.
Justification
Justification — BRADLEY FIRE SUPPORT TEAM (BFIST) VEHICLE
FY 2026 procurement dollars in the amount of $4.684 million support improvements to the Bradley Fire Support (BFIST) vehicle, resolves issues identified in the field through Field Problem Reports (FPR), improves safety, addresses obsolete components, develops and installs modification kits, maintains software and cyber, test calibration of the Inertial Navigation Unit (INU) above the 49th parallel and updates operator/technical manuals and quick reference guides. Conducts system integration assessment on incorporating UAS capability into the BFIST mission. Current projections indicate the Bradley Fire Support Team (BFIST) will remain in the Armored Brigade Combat Team (ABCT) formation until the 2050s. The primary effort will focus on the application of field modifications to mitigate obsolescence with Fire Observer Software (FOS) on the Mounted Family of Computer System (MFoCS) and to improve Target Accuracy and survivability. Integration of the Beyond Line of Sight (BLOS) target acquisition technologies to increase combat overmatch capabilities, utilizing existing Program of Record (POR) technologies that align with the priorities of the Fires Community. Funding also supports the integration of the modernized Bradley Common Display (BCD) for all Bradley Fire Support Team (BFIST) vehicles. In accordance with section 1815 of the FY 2008 National Defense Authorization Act (P.L. 110 - 181), this item is necessary for use by the active and reserve components of the Armed Forces for homeland defense missions, domestic emergency responses, and providing military support to civil authorities.
Budget line items(workbook-cited)
P-1/R-1 workbook Total Obligation Authority basis (USD thousands) · PB2026.
Exhibit P-1
| Account | Org | Type | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Procurement of Weapons and Tracked Combat Vehicles, Army | A | FY24 Actuals | $5.23M |
| Procurement of Weapons and Tracked Combat Vehicles, Army | A | FY25 Enacted | $7.25M |
| Procurement of Weapons and Tracked Combat Vehicles, Army | A | FY26 Disc. Request | $4.68M |
| Procurement of Weapons and Tracked Combat Vehicles, Army | A | FY26 Total | $4.68M |
Exhibit P-1R
| Account | Org | Type | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Procurement of Weapons and Tracked Combat Vehicles, Army | A | FY24 Actuals | $2.19M |
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 | $5.23M | $7.25M | $4.68M | $4.68M |
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? →
Related awards
Award linkage is shown for 32 of 200 profiled companies — high- and medium-confidence USAspending matches, each row labeled; medium is the weaker evidence. why partial award coverage? →
Rows marked medium rest on evidence weaker than a program-level match, and of more than one kind. An account-based row, where the award drew from the same appropriation account as this program, is an association, not evidence that this program paid for the contract. Where the evidence is instead an FPDS acquisition-program tag or a subaward description, the program is established but which of its budget lines paid is not. An announcement link a recorded review did not leave standing is medium too. Only high rows rest on the contract naming this program with a recorded review upholding it and no recorded rejection or refutation applying.
| Recipient | PIID | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
| BAE SYSTEMS LAND & ARMAMENTS L.P. | W56HZV13C0018 | medium |
Contractor concentration
No concentration index is published for this line. This line's high-confidence links do not clear the floor for a published concentration index — at least 3 awards across 2 contractor families holding positive obligations, with positive net linked dollars. An index below that floor is a fact about the sample, not about the market. Whatever further links this line carries are medium-confidence, and what each medium evidence path does and does not establish is set out in the methodology. Both bases are in the downloadable warehouse.
Lobbying mentions
5 mentions from the Senate LDA disclosure database.
Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025 (PL 119-4); provisions regarding R&D - Army, Navy/USMC…
Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 2025 (HR 8774/S 4921); provisions regarding R&D-Army, Navy/USMC, Air…
Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 2025 (HR 8774/S 4921); provisions regarding R&D-Army, Navy/USMC, Air…
Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 2024 (HR 4365/S 2587; PL 118-47) and Further Consolidated Appropriations…
Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 2025 (HR 8774/S XXXX); provisions regarding R&D-Army, Navy/USMC, Air…
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 BRADLEY FIRE SUPPORT TEAM (BFIST) VEHICLE. 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: Procurement Programs (P-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit P-1 · O91
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2026_DoD_P-1_Procurement.xlsx.
FY2024 Department of Defense Budget: Procurement Programs (P-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit P-1 · O88
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2024_DoD_P-1_Procurement.xlsx.
FY2025 Department of Defense Budget: Procurement Programs (P-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit P-1 · Q89
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2025_DoD_P-1_Procurement.xlsx.
FY2026 Department of Defense Budget: Procurement Programs (P-1R) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit P-1R · N35
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2026_DoD_P-1R_Procurement.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.
Procurement of Weapons and Tracked Combat Vehicles · www.asafm.army.mil
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