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IMPROVED RECOVERY VEHICLE (M88 HERCULES)
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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 | $41.1M |
| FY25 | $141.7M |
| FY26 | $155.5M |
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 | $51.7M | $179.2M | $41.1M | ||
| Enacted | – | $132.2M | $41.1M | $141.7M | |
| Request | – | – | $41.1M | $151.7M | $155.5M |
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 — IMPROVED RECOVERY VEHICLE (M88 HERCULES)
The M88 Heavy Equipment Recovery Combat Utility Lift and Evacuation System (HERCULES) Family of Vehicles (FoV) provides maintenance support, towing, winching, and hoisting operations to support battlefield Single Vehicle Recovery (SVR) operations and evacuation of heavy tanks and other tracked combat vehicles. The current M88A2 HERCULES variant provides support to vehicles up to 70-tons. The Army is in the process of modernizing the M88 Family of Vehicles (FoV) to regain Single Vehicle Recovery (SVR) due to the increased weight of some of the Army's major combat vehicle systems and the loss of SVR capabilities (up to 80 tons with force protection kits applied). This will be accomplished by applying modifications to the M88A2 chassis via Engineering Change Proposal (ECP) that includes modified non-developmental technologies comprised of a new power train (Engine & Transmission), new suspension, and improved track resulting in the M88A3 vehicle configuration. The increased winching and lifting capability can accommodate all 80-ton Abrams variants. Without this increased capability, units must use two M88A2 recovery vehicles to safely and effectively perform the necessary spectrum of recovery operations. The Combat Recovery System (CRS) program provides funding for the procurement and fielding of M88 Family of Vehicles (FoV), as well as personnel, engineering, Engineering Change Proposals (ECPs) design, testing, hardware procurement, and modification work order (MWO) of improvements to resolve safety, reliability, operational readiness, and vehicle recovery operation issues identified in the field and approved by the Materiel Developer and Combat Developer. This funding supports requirements for production facilitization updates and improvements at the Vehicle Upgrade and Overhaul Center (VUOC) in Anniston, AL, and associated vendors.
Justification
Justification — IMPROVED RECOVERY VEHICLE (M88 HERCULES)
FY 2026 Base Procurement dollars in the amount of $155.540 million procures M88 vehicles, government furnished equipment and material, as well as kits. The funding supports the M88 FoV fleet modifications that address improvements to operational readiness rates, vehicle safety and operation, and integration of new equipment. FY 2026 procurement covers government engineering, logistics, testing, and program management efforts supporting production, user requested system enhancements, obsolescence management to enable uninterrupted production as well as fleet modifications and retrofits to implement system enhancements that affect vehicle configurations and previously procured hardware. 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 | $41.1M |
| Procurement of Weapons and Tracked Combat Vehicles, Army | A | FY25 Enacted | $141.7M |
| Procurement of Weapons and Tracked Combat Vehicles, Army | A | FY26 Disc. Request | $155.5M |
| Procurement of Weapons and Tracked Combat Vehicles, Army | A | FY26 Total | $155.5M |
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 | All Prior Years | FY24 Actuals | FY25 Total | FY26 Base | FY26 Request |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Program Element | $3.12B | $41.1M | $141.7M | $155.5M | $155.5M |
Follow the dollar
Appropriation → program element → top high-confidence awards → recipient families → congressional districts.
Follow-the-dollar covers 312 of 1,938 programs — only high-confidence budget→award links are shown. why coverage is partial? →
The diagram illustrates the cited table below — amounts shown in the diagram are transaction sums per award (no citation chips); the per-district obligations in the table cite USAspending queries.
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. | W56HZV17C0242 | high |
| BAE SYSTEMS LAND & ARMAMENTS L.P. | W56HZV23C0078 | high |
| WS3 LLC | W56HZV20F0041 | 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
6 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…
S.5212 - Enhanced Energy Recovery Act. Implementation of Public Law 117-169 - Inflation Reduction Act - Extension of…
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 IMPROVED RECOVERY VEHICLE (M88 HERCULES). 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 · O95
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 · O92
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 · O93
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2025_DoD_P-1_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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