Suite of Survivability Enhancement Systems - EMD
Abstract
This funding line is a key enabler of the Army Modernization Priorities in support of the Vehicle Protection Suite (VPS) program. 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 Vehicle Base Kit (VBK) 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, 2023
- Source ID
- 0604852A_5_2040_PB_2023
- Change Summary Explanation
- FY 2023 funding decrease reflects the fact that the FY 2022 President's Budget request did not include out-year funding.
- Service Agency Name
- Army
Entities
Organizations
- United States Army
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