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 will develop mature and integrate solutions onto multiple ground combat vehicles increase the protection of the Army's ground systems from both current and next generation direct or indirect fired threat munitions. The Vehicle Protection Suite (VPS) Project (FE8) will design, mature, integrate, evaluate and field 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. Additionally, the VPS project will install and characterize Non-Developmental Item (NDI) Active Protection Systems on 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 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 Bradley and Stryker pending Army leadership approval.
Document Details
- Document Type
- R2 Budgetary Justification
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2025
- Source ID
- 0604852A_5_2040_PB_2025
- Change Summary Explanation
- Decreased funding in FY25 due to reduced requirement for Vehicle Protection System Base Kit Integration of Non-Developmental Items (NDI) and Developmental Technologies.
- Service Agency Name
- Army
Entities
Organizations
- United States Army
Related Documents
- Child Project: Vehicle Protection Suite
- Child Accomplishment: Vehicle Protection System Base Kit Integration of Non-Developmental Items (NDI) and Developmental Technologies
- Child Accomplishment: Survivability Improvements
- Child Accomplishment: Vehicle Protection Suite Government Engineering and Program Management
- Child Accomplishment: VPS Trade Study
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