What project BC9 buys
This project matures, optimizes, and demonstrates fully digital sensor systems, architectures, and interfacing capabilities to fuse sensors, and network situational understanding information and targeting capabilities to enable maintained mounted and dismounted visual advantage, increased situational awareness, decreased fratricide, and decreased response times to all threats in all environments. This project complements work done in Program Element (PE) 0602143A (Soldier Lethality Technology) / BD1 (Advanced Soldier Sensors/Displays Tech for Dismounts). Work in this project is performed by the Command, Control, Communication, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center and the Soldier Center.
Project BC9 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 | 19.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 25.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 49.0 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 46.4 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 46.8 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 47.4 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 47.8 |
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. Each describe FY2027 work in enough detail to have their own page; the rest are shown here in full. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
Will demonstrate robust head tracking estimation when displaying augmented reality. Will validate image processing techniques providing reduced overall power requirements for heads up displays. Will optimize advanced threat cueing modules for display on devices that are not co-located for improved distribution of situational awareness…
Read the FY2027 plan →Extreme Batteries Technology: Will integrate and demonstrate low temperature / high-capacity Group 3 UAS batteries into a UAS platform TRV150 for demonstration at a relevant operational environment during Arctic Edge 27 to increase operational capacity at extreme cold weather by at least 50%. Will develop and demonstrate high temperature…
Read the FY2027 plan →