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LOCATION & AZIMUTH DETERMINATION SYSTEM (LADS
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 | $3.17M |
| FY25 | $2.54M |
| FY26 | $9.48M |
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 | $86.3M | $3.17M | ||
| Enacted | – | $48.3M | $3.17M | $2.54M | |
| Request | – | – | $3.17M | $2.54M | $9.48M |
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 — LOCATION & AZIMUTH DETERMINATION SYSTEM (LADS)
The Location and Azimuth Determining System (LADS) provides a lightweight, portable, and deployable common inertial survey capability for field artillery cannon, rocket, missile, radar and mortar platforms that is not dependent on the Global Positioning System (GPS). LADS replaces the legacy Improved Position and Azimuth Determining System - GPS (IPADS-G) which is no longer supportable and facing multiple obsolescence issues. The LADS system is operable by multiple military occupational specialties (MOS) and can be integrated into multiple vehicles.
Justification
Justification — LOCATION & AZIMUTH DETERMINATION SYSTEM (LADS)
FY 2026 Base procurement funds in the amount of $9.477 million supports the production engineering and fielding costs for Location and Azimuth Determining Systems (LADS) and Assured Position, Navigation and Timing (APNT) (aka: M-Code) compliance initiatives. The Location and Azimuth Determining System (LADS) provides a lightweight, portable, and deployable common inertial survey capability for field artillery cannon, rocket, missile, radar and mortar platforms that is not dependent on the Global Positioning System (GPS). LADS provides accurate location, azimuth and direction for all field artillery systems while being reliable, intuitive to use, and more cost effective than the predecessor system while operating in GPS denied and degraded environments. Military Code (M-Code) signal initiatives support improved security and meet Public Law (P.L.) 111-383 for the Global Position System (GPS) to receive M-Code. Net funding increase of $8.411 million from FY 2025 to FY 2026 reflects the procurement and implementation of Military Code (M-Code) compliance initiatives which provide the LADS system with the continued ability to conduct precision and near precision fires in a Global Positioning System (GPS) contested environment while maintaining current operational tempo. 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 | $3.17M |
| Procurement of Weapons and Tracked Combat Vehicles, Army | A | FY25 Enacted | $2.54M |
| Procurement of Weapons and Tracked Combat Vehicles, Army | A | FY26 Disc. Request | $9.48M |
| Procurement of Weapons and Tracked Combat Vehicles, Army | A | FY26 Total | $9.48M |
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.
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| Project | All Prior Years | FY24 Actuals | FY25 Total | FY26 Base | FY26 Request |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Program Element | $83.7M | $3.17M | $2.54M | $9.48M | $9.48M |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC. | W15QKN23F0498 | 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
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 LOCATION & AZIMUTH DETERMINATION SYSTEM (LADS. 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 · O106
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 · O105
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 · O104
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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