What project AE3 buys
This project matures and demonstrates technologies to increase survivability of personnel and critical assets using integrated unconventional countermeasures. These countermeasures include tone down concepts for signature management using novel materials, rapidly deployable, low-cost, multisprectral survivability enhancement technologies as well as intuitive decision support technologies to select and assess non-kinetic protective measures. Work in this Project complements Program Element (PE) 0602150A (Air and Missile Defense Technology) / Project AE2 (Unconventional Countermeasures-Survivability Tech). Work in this Project is conducted by the United States Army Engineer Research and Development Center Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory.
Project AE3 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 | 11.6 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 11.8 |
| FY2027 | Request | 0.8 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 2.3 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 2.6 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 2.9 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 2.9 |
3 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. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
FY2027 planned work Demonstrate and evaluate unconventional countermeasures technologies for critical Air and Missile Defense (AMD) assets in a relevant Multi-Domain Operations environment; integrate tunable signature management solutions into existing infrastructure.
FY2026 to FY2027 change FY 2027 funding increase due to initiation of this task with initial efforts to demonstrate and evaluate unconventional countermeasures technologies for critical Air and Missile Defense (AMD) assets and integrate tunable signature management solutions.
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding decrease reflects conclusion of this effort and transition of research.
FY2026 plans — current year Will optimize and validate physical prototype survivability enhancement kits for Fires assets. Will demonstrate preliminary field-expedient technical effects to support multi-domain operations.
FY2025 accomplishments Matured and demonstrated physical prototype survivability enhancement kits for fire assets.
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding decrease reflects conclusion of this effort and transition of research.
FY2026 plans — current year Will demonstrate and validate active and passive countermeasure systems to protect fixed logistics assets.
FY2025 accomplishments Refined and demonstrated passive unconventional countermeasures systems tailored for additional fixed logistics assets. Optimized active countermeasures with specific focus on low-cost logistics protection of hard-to-move unique system and subsystems.