# Terminal Effects Mechanisms

**R-2A activity** of project BG6 — Advanced Concepts for Active Defense Technology  
**Program element:** 0602145A — Next Generation Combat Vehicle Technology  
**Component:** U.S. Army · **Budget Activity:** 2  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602145A/BG6/a8  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602145A/BG6

> **NEW START.** $11.1M requested in FY2027 with no prior-year and no current-year funding.

## Summary

This activity requests $11.1M in FY2027, 29% of project BG6 — a new start with no prior-year and no current-year money. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2027 planned work.** Will investigate automated armor design methodology, machine learning tools, and computational methods for optimizing protection against a specific threat of interest against various armor technologies; expand Armor database and machine learning knowledge products; devise and refine theory for scaling behavior in thick metal plates; conduct experiments at key loading rates and temperatures relative to typical Army environments to populate key material and mechanical parameters for constitutive models used for high-rate behavior of metals, glasses, composites, and explosives; implement material models and parameters, and other code enhancements for for installation on DoW High Performance Computing (HPC) machines; investigate the portability of advanced explosive initiation models into computational codes of interest; investigate novel, nontraditional dual-purpose armor such as battery armor; investigate diagnostics of directed energy influences for lethality and protection; explore multispectral sensors and diagnostic techniques with and without laser illumination for solving knowledge gaps in terminal ballistic physics and discovery of new phenomena; conduct analysis and experimentation of multi-purpose munitions with combined penetration, blast effects, and other mechanisms for lethality and protection exploitation; develop fast-running models to describe lethality of multipurpose munitions; optimize shock-mitigating materials for enhanced control of wave propagation during explosive events.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** This is not a new start. Funding was realigned from Program Element (PE) 0602144A (Ground Technology) / Project CG7 (Ground Protection Concepts and Technologies) to support the creation of Terminal Effects Mechanisms in FY 2027.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2027 | Request | 11.1 |

> Prior, current and budget year only — an R-2A activity carries no five-year plan. It sums exactly into its project in the request year and not necessarily in any other.

## Other activities in project BG6

- Multi-Threat Armor Technologies — FY2027 9.0
- Advanced Vehicle Survivability (AVS) Research — FY2027 6.4
- Adaptive and Cooperative Protection — FY2027 6.0
- Survivability/Lethality/Vulnerability Analysis Tools and Methodology — FY2027 3.3
- Directed Energy for Terminal Effects — FY2027 2.3
- Emerging Overmatch Technologies — FY2027 —
- Collaborative Defense — FY2027 —
- Vehicle Intelligent Survivability (VIS) Research — FY2027 —

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Army RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0602145A project BG6 (PB PB2027). Narrative is the government's own text.
- **No marks, no contractors at this grain** — congressional marks land on the program element and R-3 performers on the project.
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_activity`.

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