What project 0606 buys
AIRCREW SYSTEMS: Aircrew Systems include Cold Weather/Anti-Exposure Systems (CWAES), Helmet, Mask, Regulator (HMR), Survival Vest Systems Improvement (SVSI), and Improved Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing System (IJHMCS). The CWAES program will design, test, and qualify improved cold weather/anti-exposure systems. System components will provide reduced thermal burden, increased mobility, and superior water intrusion resistance while maintaining protection levels. The improved system will reduce fatigue and dehydration, enable operating at optimum performance during extended missions, provide protection from exposure, and provide improved survivability during extended recoveries. The SVSI program provides for an improved RW/TR aircrew survival vest to address safety and performance issues with the currently fielded solution. Vest systems include, at a minimum, aircrew life support equipment and armor carrier, hoisting capability, mobile aircrew restraint, and life preserver. IJHMCS will mitigate aircrew back and neck strain/fatigue and replace the JHMCS Helmet Mounted Day Display and Night Vision Cueing Device (NVCD) with a single day/night, digital color-capable helmet-mounted display. IJHMCS will integrate onto the helmet solution identified in the Helmet Mask Regulator (HMR) program. AIRCREW SAFETY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM: Aircrew Safety Improvement Program (ASIP) provides continuing development and qualification in response to high priority, emergent aircrew systems deficiencies, capability gaps, obsolescence, and readiness issues. ASIP addresses critical safety and performance issues while enhancing safety and survivability with solution improvements across the aircrew systems portfolio. Efforts are prioritized according to fleet demand signals.
- Product Development
- Test and Evaluation
- Management Services
Project 0606 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 | 20.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 40.2 |
| FY2027 | Request | 21.6 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 17.5 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 10.2 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 8.0 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 9.9 |
2 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.
CWAES: Conduct Critical Design Review (CDR), receive initial delivery of prototypes, begin Developmental Testing. SVSI: Complete developmental test and qualify improvements to the Survival Vest System. IJHMCS: Complete integrated test. HMR: Complete developmental test.
Read the FY2027 plan →FY2027 planned work ASIP: Provide continuing development and qualification in response to high priority, emergent aircrew systems deficiencies, capability gaps, obsolescence, and readiness issues. Address critical safety and performance issues while enhancing safety and survivability with solution improvements across the aircrew systems portfolio.
FY2026 to FY2027 change Increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is in support of aircrew systems deficiencies, capability gaps, obsolescence, and readiness issues.
FY2026 plans — current year ASIP: Provide continuing development and qualification in response to high priority, emergent aircrew systems deficiencies, capability gaps, obsolescence, and readiness issues. Address critical safety and performance issues while enhancing safety and survivability with solution improvements across the aircrew systems portfolio.
Named performers on project 0606
Performers named in the R-3 exhibit under this project. Share is of the project's whole FY2027 R-3 total — the same denominator the program-element split uses, so the two read on one scale and will not sum to 100% when unnamed or government work is in the mix. Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations.