# Advanced Soldier Sensors/Displays Advanced Technology for Dismounts

**R-2A activity** of project BC9 — Adv Soldier Sensors/Displays AdvTech for Dismounts  
**Program element:** 0603118A — Soldier Lethality Advanced Technology  
**Component:** U.S. Army · **Budget Activity:** 3  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603118A/BC9/a0  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603118A/BC9

## Summary

This activity requests $34.3M in FY2027, 70% of project BC9, up 34% on FY2026. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2025–FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2027 planned work.** 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 and target handoff supporting advanced teaming for the forward observer. Will mature and demonstrate a very low SWaP, Soldier-borne acoustic sensing capability needed to detect emerging threats, to including unmanned aerial assets. Will mature technologies for optical disruption of unmanned aerial assets using a rifle mounted system. Will demonstrate covert target pointing to reduce Soldier signature during target handoff scenarios. Will validate and demonstrate an advanced aided sensing methodology with demonstration of prioritized targeting using aim augmentation to provide the dismounted Soldier with increased situational awareness and lethality. Will mature advanced sensors for fire control solutions to provide augmented view of the battlefield to the Soldier. Will integrate Soldier mission command systems with threat sensors, unmanned systems, tactical networks, tactical data sources and intelligent systems to provide the Small Unit leader with actionable information to enhance their decision dominance and situational awareness during combat operations. Will mature and demonstrate multi-agent control applications for Army Squad and Platoon level Small Unmanned Aerial Systems (SUAS) and technologies to enable collaborative autonomy between SUAS in denied, degraded, intermittent and limited (DDIL) environments.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Increase represents efforts to mature advanced sensors for fire control solutions.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** Will mature methodologies and techniques to enable robust head tracking estimation when displaying augmented reality; demonstrate methodologies and techniques through Soldier feedback; optimize processing techniques to reduce overall power requirements for heads up displays; mature and demonstrate advanced threat cueing modules for display on devices that are not co-located for improved distribution of situational awareness and target handoff; mature and demonstrate a modular payload for dismounted hostile fire detection on robotic platforms; optimize covert target pointing to reduce Soldier signature during target handoff scenarios; optimize modular payloads for unmanned aerial assets to track and geolocate mobile targets while on the move, at tactical ranges; optimize aided sensing methodology in a laboratory environment to improve situational awareness for the dismounted Soldier.

**FY2025 accomplishments.** Demonstrate next generation heads up display and algorithms with improved performance under more robust tactical operations; demonstrate advanced threat cueing modules for detection of concealed threats and reduced time to acquire; optimize display and control of small aerial platform within heads-up display system for improved situational awareness during unmanned teaming; optimize sensor configurations for small aerial platforms with embedded aided target recognition and autonomy; demonstrate final design concept and performance for optimized dismounted hostile fire detection as validation of User expectations; validate improved head and weapon orientation sensing for covert target engagement; and validate tracking accuracy of mobile targets on the move at tactical ranges to proliferate accurate situational awareness real-time at all echelons.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 19.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 25.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 34.3 |

> 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 BC9

- [Advanced Tactical Power and Battery Technologies](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603118A/BC9/a1) — FY2027 14.6

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Army RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0603118A project BC9 (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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