Suite of Survivability Enhancement Systems - EMD

Abstract

Note: Soft Kill Acquisition Program under "Survivability Improvements" is a new start program in FY2022. Current ground combat vehicle platforms and tactical wheeled vehicles 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 PE 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 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). Active Protection System effort will execute installation design refinement and required testing to meet urgent fielding of NDI APS on Abrams, Bradley and Stryker pending Army leadership approval. The Active Protection System NDI effort served to inform the Vehicle Protection Suite Trade Study. 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 Controller (MAC) 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.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2022
Source ID
0604852A_5_2040_PB_2022
Change Summary Explanation
Service Agency Name
Army

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Army

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Combat Vehicles
  • Contracts
  • Detection
  • Engineering
  • Explosive Devices
  • Ground Control Stations
  • Improvised Explosive Devices
  • Physical Properties
  • Procurement
  • Product Development
  • Program Management
  • Radar
  • Reactive Armor
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Unmanned Aerial Systems
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Critical Infrastructure Protection in CBRN and WMD Threats.
  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
  • Munitions and Ordnance Engineering

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