Suite of Vehicle Protection Systems - EMD
Abstract
Current ground combat vehicle platforms and Tactical Wheeled Vehicles (TWVs) within Army Brigade Combat Teams (BCTs) lack the ability to effectively detect, track, divert, disrupt, neutralize, or destroy incoming direct or indirect fired threat munitions. Current solutions to defeat these threats, Explosive Reactive Armor (ERA) and Slat armor, do not provide preemptive or active protection and impose secondary blast hazards to crew, dismounted soldiers, and adjacent vehicles and equipment. The Suite of Vehicle Protection Systems - EMD Program Element (0604852A) will develop and mature solutions to increase the protection of the Army's ground systems from both current and next generation direct or indirect fired threat munitions. The Active Protection System Project (XU9) will install and characterize Non-Developmental Item (NDI) Active Protection Systems on Abrams, Bradley, and Stryker demonstrator vehicles. The Active Protection System effort will assess the maturity, performance, and integration risk of NDI Active Protection Systems, develop and refine Abrams, Bradley, and Stryker Active Protection System installation kit designs, and build prototypes necessary to conduct performance and safety testing to obtain an Active Protection System Urgent Materiel Release (UMR). The Active Protection System NDI effort will also serve to inform the Vehicle Protection Suite Analysis of Alternatives (AoA). The Vehicle Protection Suite (VPS) Project (FE8) will design, mature, and evaluate combinations of active, reactive, and passive solutions and leverage both Horizontal Technology Integration (HTI) principles and the Army's Modular Active Protection System (MAPS) to develop tailored vehicle Survivability Sets that will mitigate existing protection gaps, allow for future technology insertion to meet evolving threats, and minimize the impact to the current capabilities hosted on Army ground system platforms.
Document Details
- Document Type
- R2 Budgetary Justification
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2018
- Source ID
- 0604852A_5_2040_PB_2018
- Change Summary Explanation
- FY18 Base includes the new start Vehicle Protection Suite (Project FE8) effort and the continuation of Active Protection System (APS) (Project XU9) efforts previously executed under PE 0203735A - Combat Vehicle Improvement Programs.
- Service Agency Name
- Army
Entities
Organizations
- United States Army
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