# Collaborative Defense

**R-2A activity** of project BG7 — Ground Systems Active Defense (GSAD) Advanced Tech  
**Program element:** 0603462A — Next Generation Combat Vehicle Advanced Technology  
**Component:** U.S. Army · **Budget Activity:** 3  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603462A/BG7/a8  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603462A/BG7

## Summary

This activity requests $25.9M in FY2027, 56% of project BG7, up 39% on FY2026. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2026–FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2027 planned work.** Will further develop integrated collaborative defense system design based on data from previous component-level demonstrations; mature and demonstrate threat and effector sensing and tracking modalities and optimize associated hardware and software; optimize effector and payload hardware for required terminal effects performance; demonstrate physical installation onto host ground platforms or representative structures, and optimize integration aspects to minimize size, weight, and power burdens; demonstrate live defeat of multiple threat classes; develop hardware for subsequent capability enhancements and demonstrations.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Increase reflects natural progression of the technology development, moving from system design and component-level work to system build and demonstration.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** Will leverage prior research from 0602145A, Next Generation Combat Vehicle Technology / BG6 - Collaborative Defense to mature physical, electrical, and software designs, and package the selected individual component technologies that comprise the system in preparation for environmental, durability and performance validation; provide updates to the system architecture design model, control software, as well as the physical system integration design to prepare for full-system sample build.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | Enacted | 18.6 |
| FY2027 | Request | 25.9 |

> 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 BG7

- Active Protection — FY2027 12.5
- Armor — FY2027 6.5
- Integrated Signature Management — FY2027 1.5
- Advanced Radar and Soft-Kill (A-RASK) Suite — FY2027 —
- Soft-Kill System Development — FY2027 —
- Survivability Capability Characterization and Demonstration — FY2027 —
- APS Residuals Protection Maturation and Complex Threat Attack Protection (CTAP) — FY2027 —
- Controls and Architecture — FY2027 —
- Hard Kill Active Protection System (HK APS) Development, Integration, and Demonstration — FY2027 —
- Next Generation Adaptive Armor — FY2027 —

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Army RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0603462A project BG7 (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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