# Project BC9 — Adv Soldier Sensors/Displays AdvTech for Dismounts

**Program element:** 0603118A — Soldier Lethality Advanced Technology  
**Project:** BC9  
**Component:** U.S. Army  
**Appropriation:** 2040 — RDT&E, Army  
**Budget Activity:** 3 — Advanced Technology Development  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603118A/BC9  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603118A

## Summary

Project BC9 — Adv Soldier Sensors/Displays AdvTech for Dismounts requests $49.0M in FY2027, 39% of the $125.1M requested for program element 0603118A, up 91% on FY2026. 2 R-2A activities decompose the request, 1 new this cycle.

## Funding profile

| 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 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0603118A; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## 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.

## Activities (R-2A) — 2

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Advanced Soldier Sensors/Displays Advanced Technology for Dismounts | 19.0 | 25.7 | 34.3 | +34% | [a0](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603118A/BC9/a0) |
| Advanced Tactical Power and Battery Technologies | — | — | 14.6 | new | [a1](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603118A/BC9/a1) |

> 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 Advanced Technology for Dismounts

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…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603118A/BC9/a0

### Advanced Tactical Power and Battery Technologies — NEW START

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…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603118A/BC9/a1

## 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/0603118A.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Army RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0603118A project BC9 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0603118A")`.

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