Next Generation Combat Vehicle Technology

Abstract

This Program element (PE) line is directly aligned to the Next Generation Combat Vehicle (NGCV) Army Modernization Priority. This PE researches, designs, and evaluates combat vehicle technologies that enable the Army to have a smarter, faster, more lethal, more precise, more protected, and more adaptable force. The focus is on building upon the foundational vehicle architectures to support the Next Generation of Combat Vehicles, to include autonomy architecture, power architecture, vehicle electronic architecture, physical architecture, lethality architecture and vehicle protection architecture. The research conducted will provide technologies to enable leap ahead capabilities for manned, optionally manned and unmanned vehicles that deliver decisive lethality. Work in this PE complements PE 0602141A (Lethality Technology), PE 0602144A (Ground Technology), PE 0602146A (Network C3I Technology), PE 0603116A (Lethality Advanced Technology), PE 0603119A (Ground Advanced Technology), PE 0603462A (Next Generation Combat Vehicle Advanced Technology), and PE 0603463A (Network C3I Advanced Technology). Work in this PE will transition to PE 0603462A (Next Generation Combat Vehicle Advanced Technology). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Priority focus areas. Work is performed by the Ground Vehicle System Center (GVSC); the Army Research Laboratory (ARL); the Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center; the Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory; the Data and Analysis Center (DAC); and the Armaments Center (AC). Overseas Operations Costs (OOC) funds this requirement in the amount of $1,041 thousand for FY 2025 Budget Estimate. Overseas Operations Costs (OOC) are those financed with former Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) funding.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2025
Source ID
0602145A_2_2040_PB_2025
Change Summary Explanation
Funding realigned to PE0602146A/ Network C3I Technology, Project AO4/Energy Efficient Devices and 0602150A/Air and Missile Defense Technology, Project SU1/Counter Small Unmanned Aircraft System.
Service Agency Name
Army

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Army

Tags

Readers

  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
  • Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Autonomous Capabilities and Mission Reconnaissance.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - UAVs
  • Cyber
  • Microelectronics

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