What project BD1 buys
This project designs and develops low power, next generation modular sensor and display components for detection and identification of both threats and friendlies in all environments to increase situational awareness, decrease fratricide, and enable Soldiers to respond more quickly for greater lethality. This project complements s work done in Program Element (PE) 0603118A (Soldier Lethality Advanced Technology) / BC9 (Adv Soldier Sensors/Displays AdvTech for Dismounts). Work in this project is performed by the Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center, Soldier Center, and Army Research Laboratory (ARL).
Project BD1 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 15.4 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 17.1 |
| FY2027 | Request | 15.5 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 15.9 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 15.7 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 15.9 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 16.1 |
2 accomplishments / planned programs
The R-2A exhibit — the only level of the budget that describes work that has not happened yet. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only, no five-year plan. 1 of them describes FY2027 work in enough detail to have its own page; the rest are shown here in full. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
Will investigate advanced materials and sensor modalities for digital low-light imagers capable of operation in overcast starlight, with an emphasis on high performance, low power, and low cost for future Soldier-borne and attritable systems; design and develop a front-end application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) for the next…
Read the FY2027 plan →FY2027 planned work Will develop capability to quantify shared situational awareness of heterogenous human-autonomy teams using edge devices; integrate computational models of visual attention with computer vision to share target information between dismount Soldiers and autonomous systems; investigate algorithms for adapting autonomous systems based on squad-level maneuver predictions; develop methodologies for leveraging dismounted Soldier-system data for novel fire control capabilities across the formation.
FY2026 to FY2027 change This is not a new start effort. Funding realigned from Program Element (PE) 0602184A (Soldier Applied Research) / Project CN2 (Intelligent Weapons Concepts and Technologies) to consolidate soldier situational awareness work within one project in FY2027.