What project BQ6 buys
This project focuses on transitioning demonstrated technologies that bring improvements to provide a modular, fused digital awareness system that enhances lethality, mobility, and situational awareness for dismounted Soldiers to achieve overmatch against our current and future adversaries. Funded efforts will drive competition with multiple vendors, establish a modular open system architecture for major components, accelerate and improve thermal and low light sensor suites, terrain shared coordinate data and processing, algorithms including machine learning/artificial intelligence, human machine integration, and demonstrations in support of the next generation augmented vision, night vision, and situational awareness capabilities. Efforts will provide rapid decision making and targeting capabilities with the integration of external video and data sources such as weapon sights, air and ground platforms, unmanned air and ground assets, and other data sources enabled by edge computing devices, advanced network services, and open resilient architecture. This project includes costs for efforts associated with edge computing devices, movement of information and high-level processing, integration, and interface of products/capabilities with the Soldiers as a platform. To enable such data movement and integration, this project funds the establishment and baselining of a Squad architecture. Funding for this project aligns with the Army's Continuous Transformation priorities and National Defense Strategy. This project supports the Futures and Concepts Command (FCC) Maneuver Future Capability Directorate. The total cost of the Integrated Visual Augmentation Systems IVAS 1.2, Rapid Prototyping Middle Tier of Acquisition (RP MTA) effort is $798.10 million RDT&E from FY 2022 to FY 2027. The total cost of the Soldier Borne Mission Command (SBMC) Rapid Prototyping Middle Tier of Acquisition (RP MTA) effort is $429.8 million RDT&E from FY 2025 to FY 2027.
- Management Services
- Product Development
- Test and Evaluation
Project BQ6 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 76.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 418.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 338.0 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 92.1 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 93.2 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 93.2 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 94.2 |
1 accomplishment / planned program
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. Each 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.
SBMC development includes improved system form factor and performance, and continued extensibility enhancements with SQD-A refinements. SBMC and SQD-A test and evaluation planned to assess and validate performance.
Read the FY2027 plan →Named performers on project BQ6
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.