Night Vision Systems - Eng Dev
Abstract
A portion of this funding line is directly aligned to the Army Soldier Lethality Modernization Priority in support of situational awareness for the Close Combat Soldier. This program element provides night vision/reconnaissance, surveillance and target acquisition technologies required for United States defense forces to engage enemy forces twenty-four hours a day under conditions of degraded visibility due to darkness, adverse weather, battlefield obscurants, foliage and man-made structures. These developments and improvements to high performance night vision electro-optics, radar, laser, and thermal systems and integration of related multi-sensor suites will enable near to long range target acquisition, identification and engagement to include significant fratricide reduction, which will improve battlefield command and control in "around-the-clock" combat operations. Project BQ6 focuses on transitioning demonstrated technologies that bring improvements to the dismounted Soldier's augmented vision and situational awareness system and provide Soldiers with the ability to fight, rehearse, train and win during multi-domain operations. Funded efforts will accelerate the implementation of components, terrain shared coordinate data and processing, algorithms including machine learning/artificial intelligence and demonstrations in support of the next generation augmented vision and situational awareness. Efforts will provide rapid decision making and targeting capabilities with the integration of external video and data sources such as weapon sights, air and ground vehicles and other data sources enabled by tactical cloud package and advanced network services. This project will provide data driven analytics to optimize unit performance and enhance lethality and to enable Synthetic Training Environment (STE) squad capability to perform live mixed reality training and rehearsing. This project includes costs for efforts associated with movement of information and high level processing, integration, and interface of products with the Soldiers' head, body, weapon, and platforms. Funding for this project aligns with the Army's priorities in support of the National Defense Strategy and this project supports the Soldier Lethality Cross Functional Team. The total cost of the Integrated Visual Augmentation 1.2 Rapid Prototyping Middle Tier of Acquisition effort is $314.0 million RDT&E from FY22 to FY25. The remainder of the IVAS 1.2 Rapid Prototyping MTA is fully funded across the Future Years Defense Program. Project DI5 begins development on Future Advanced Long-range Common Optical/Netted-fires Sensor (FALCONS). FALCONS is the replacement for the Long Range Advanced Scout Surveillance System (LRAS3) and Fire Support Sensor System (FS3) providing an unmatched capability to detect, identify, and locate threats in all battlefield conditions at extended ranges, in all conditions, locate targets with the fidelity required to employ numerous Army and Joint precision, near precision, and conventional munitions, and have a networked capability to provide direct links for Scouts and Fire Supporters to streamline the kill chain. Project L67 develops, improves and miniaturizes high performance electro-optics, thermal and laser systems. It provides for systems integration of related multi-sensor suites to enable near to long-range target acquisition and engagement as well as improved battlefield command and control in around-the-clock combat operations. It also adapts demonstrated technologies that bring improvements to the mounted and dismounted Soldiers' equipment and capabilities. This project develops or enhances equipment that provides the individual Soldier's day and/or night situational awareness and individual targeting capability. This project includes cost associated with efforts for the development, integration and interface of products on Soldiers head, body and weapons. Funding in this project supports the Army Future's Command Situational Awareness Strategy. Funding in this project aligns with the Army's priorities in support of the National Defense Strategy. Project L70 supports the 3rd Generation Forward Looking Infrared (3GEN FLIR) B-Kit program, which incorporates the next generation of forward-looking infrared technologies. The 3GEN FLIR program provides a common 3GEN FLIR B-Kit for integration into US Army FLIR sensor systems in accordance with the approved Improved Forward Looking Infrared (I-FLIR) Capability Development Document (CDD). When integrated in platform sensor packages, 3GEN FLIR technology enhances the warfighters' survivability and lethality through increased identification range performance, while enabling the detection of difficult or obscured targets and faster threat detection through automated processes. Executing Army guidance to implement advancements in digital processing and artificial intelligence has positioned 3GEN FLIR as the lead sensor to provide the Army's path forward for AI/ML capabilities for ground platforms. The 3GEN FLIR B-Kit program is key to the maintenance of the Army's FLIR industrial base. Project L79 is an Army program with joint information (Air Force and Marine Corps). JETS addresses the one-man, hand-held precision targeting gap identified by the Fires Center of Excellence (FCoE). JETS is a lightweight, handheld system that will provide the single dismounted observer with a common, enhanced day and night thermal capability to rapidly acquire, accurately locate, positively identify, and precisely designate targets. JETS Target Location and Designation System (TLDS) will be able to interface with existing and future Forward Entry Systems (FESs) and operate in environments where global positioning system (GPS) capabilities are degraded or denied and will integrate the military-code (M-Code) GPS receivers. This project will address continued development and integration of improved precision targeting components to reduce size, weight, power, and cost of systems for dismounted precisions Fires mission. Funding in this project aligns with the Army's priorities in support of the National Defense Strategy.
Document Details
- Document Type
- R2 Budgetary Justification
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2025
- Source ID
- 0604710A_5_2040_PB_2025
- Change Summary Explanation
- The overall decrease in funding is attributed to the realignment of resources to PE 0603774A / Night Vision Systems Advanced Development's BQ5 (6.4) to support IVAS' modernization cycle. This reduction offset increases supporting EMD requirements for NVD-N and FALCONS.
- Service Agency Name
- Army
Entities
Organizations
- United States Army
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