# Project BD1 — Adv Soldier Sensors/Displays Tech for Dismounts

**Program element:** 0602143A — Soldier Lethality Technology  
**Project:** BD1  
**Component:** U.S. Army  
**Appropriation:** 2040 — RDT&E, Army  
**Budget Activity:** 2 — Applied Research  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602143A/BD1  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602143A

## Summary

Project BD1 — Adv Soldier Sensors/Displays Tech for Dismounts requests $15.5M in FY2027, 23% of the $68.0M requested for program element 0602143A, down 9.0% on FY2026. 2 R-2A activities decompose the request, 1 new this cycle.

## Funding profile

| 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 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0602143A; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## 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).

## Activities (R-2A) — 2

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Advanced Soldier Sensors/Displays Technology for Dismounts | 15.4 | 17.1 | 11.0 | −35% | [a0](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602143A/BD1/a0) |
| Distributed Information for Enhanced Squad Lethality (DIESL) | — | — | 4.5 | new | — |

> Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan. In the request year they partition this project exactly; in earlier years they can under-cover it.

### Advanced Soldier Sensors/Displays Technology for Dismounts

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…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602143A/BD1/a0

### Distributed Information for Enhanced Squad Lethality (DIESL) — NEW START

**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.

## What is NOT on this page

Congressional marks, the R-2 mission description and acquisition strategy, the industry vs government split of the whole request, and related program elements are recorded at **program-element** grain — an NDAA mark lands on a PE, never on a project. They are at https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602143A.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Army RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0602143A project BD1 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0602143A")`.

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