# Project BQ6 — Visual Augmentation System Eng Dev

**Program element:** 0604710A — Night Vision Systems - Eng Dev  
**Project:** BQ6  
**Component:** U.S. Army  
**Appropriation:** 2040 — RDT&E, Army  
**Budget Activity:** 5 — System Development & Demonstration  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604710A/BQ6  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604710A

## Summary

Project BQ6 — Visual Augmentation System Eng Dev requests $338.0M in FY2027, 81% of the $418.4M requested for program element 0604710A, down 19% on FY2026. 1 R-2A activity decomposes the request. RIVET is the largest named R-3 performer at $87.1M, 26% of the project's FY2027 R-3 total.

## Funding profile

| 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 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0604710A; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## 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.

**R-3 lines of work:** Management Services; Product Development; Test and Evaluation.

## Named R-3 performers

| Performer | $M | Share of this project's FY2027 R-3 total |
|---|---|---|
| RIVET | 87.1 | 26% |
| ELBIT | 60.9 | 18% |
| ANDRUIL | 55.0 | 16% |

> Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations. Shares need not reach 100% — unnamed and government work is in the denominator.

## Activities (R-2A) — 1

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soldier Borne Mission Command (SBMC) | 76.3 | 308.0 | 338.0 | +10% | [a0](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604710A/BQ6/a0) |

> Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan. In the request year they partition this project exactly; in earlier years they can under-cover it.

### Soldier Borne Mission Command (SBMC)

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.

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604710A/BQ6/a0

## What is NOT on this page

Congressional marks, the R-2 mission description and acquisition strategy, the industry vs government split of the whole request, and related program elements are recorded at **program-element** grain — an NDAA mark lands on a PE, never on a project. They are at https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604710A.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Army RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0604710A project BQ6 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0604710A")`.

*HitchAI is an independent intelligence service, not affiliated with the U.S. Department of Defense. Budget figures are requests/estimates, not obligations.*