What project BG1 buys
This project matures, optimizes, and demonstrates automated, advanced multi-function sensors and integrates threat cueing capabilities for operations in full spectrum, complex environments, for next generation manned, optionally manned, and robotic platform applications. This Project will deliver sensor payloads which provide greatly increased situational awareness (e.g., pre-shot and hostile fire detection, threat classification) in all environments for manned and unmanned ground vehicle systems. Work in this project is performed by the Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center
Project BG1 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 | 9.6 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 8.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 13.8 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 15.1 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 16.1 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 18.3 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 18.4 |
4 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. 1 of them describes FY2027 work in enough detail to have its own page; the rest are shown here in full. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
Will mature and demonstrate day/night electro-optic infrared (EO/IR) aided target detection and recognition (AITDR) threat detection capabilities using imagery collected in both temperate and sub-tropical environments, supporting expanded maneuver of ground platforms against remotely deployed mines; will demonstrate integrated air/ground…
Read the FY2027 plan →FY2027 planned work Will mature novel, spectrally agile sensor protection measures for selective targeting and situational awareness while under attack from current and emerging laser threats.Mature integrated sensor signature reduction and self-protection technologies to enhance the resilience of tactical infrared imaging sensors against detection, dazzling, and damage from new and proliferated adversary threats, including wavelength-agile and ultra-short pulsed high-energy lasers.
FY2026 to FY2027 change This is not a new start. FY 2027 this effort is realigned from Program Element (PE) 0603462A (Next Generation Combat Vehicle Advanced Technology) / Project BI3 (Sensor Protection Advanced Technology) to streamline and optimize the Science and Technology portfolio.
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding decrease reflects realignment to Multi-mission Sensors and Processing for Expanded Maneuver within this project to continue the maturation of advanced processing capabilities.
FY2026 plans — current year Will demonstrate advanced targeting while on-the-move with optimized far target location (FTL) components and systems in permissive and denied environments; will exploit novel boresighting techniques to demonstrate precision FTL with reduced user workload; will demonstrate sensor automation and platform-level target fusion from multiple sensing sources on a tactical vehicle to validate reduced user interactions and improved target fidelity; will optimize the sensor and display used for vehicle navigation in a laboratory environment to improve driver situational awareness, obstacle avoidance, and reduce risk to platform and mission.
FY2025 accomplishments Will develop advanced sensor components to inform future maturation of a common, modular multispectral sensor system with low power processing and reduced SWaP; mature and demonstrate precision far target location for on-the-move performance and reduced crew workload for legacy and next generation targeting and surveillance systems; exploit targeting and threat detection sensors with embedded processing in a laboratory environment to validate reduced user interactions and improved crew performance; optimize sensor-to-shooter timelines through automation of low-level sensor tasking and smart fusion of sensor data outputs.
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding decrease reflects realignment to Multi-mission Sensors and Processing for Expanded Maneuver within this project to continue the maturation of advanced sensing capabilities.
FY2026 plans — current year Will demonstrate Aided Target Recognition (AiTR) enabled sensors by exploiting data and imagery from low-cost electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) payloads and small unmanned aircraft system platforms to quantify AiTR limitations, performance, and target location accuracies which will be used to inform size, weight, and power and sensor payload specifications for tethered platforms. Will expand and demonstrate AiTR capabilities using imagery collected in both temperate and sub-tropical environments.
FY2025 accomplishments FY 2025 Plans: Will optimize polarized sensors and demonstrate with embedded detection algorithms and a ground penetrating radar sensor with synthetic aperture radar processing to accurately identify locations of near peer threats from small UAS systems. Will provide threat data and their precise locations onto the tactical network from the sUAS in real time to support maneuver decisions for improved survivability of US combat vehicles.