What project L70 buys
The project supports the 3rd Generation Forward Looking Infrared (3GEN FLIR) B-Kit program, which incorporates the next generation of forward-looking infrared technologies. The 3GEN FLIR program provides a common 3GEN FLIR B-Kit for integration into US Army FLIR sensor systems in accordance with the approved Improved Forward Looking Infrared (I-FLIR) Capability Development Document (CDD). The common 3GEN FLIR B-Kit will integrate with XM30, FALCONS, and future platforms; with potential 3GEN FLIR component utilization opportunities for future reconnaissance and airborne applications. The 3GEN FLIR B-Kit provides Mid Wave Infrared and Long Wave Infrared digital video and the electronic interfaces required to integrate the 3GEN FLIR technology with the host platform sensor. When integrated in platform sensor packages, 3GEN FLIR technology enhances the warfighters' survivability and lethality through increased identification range performance, while enabling the detection of difficult or obscured targets and faster threat detection through automated processes. Executing Army guidance to implement advancements in digital processing and artificial intelligence has positioned 3GEN FLIR as the lead sensor to provide the Army's path forward for AI/ML capabilities for ground platforms. The 3GEN FLIR B-Kit program is key to the maintenance of the Army's FLIR industrial base.
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Project L70 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 | 7.2 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 14.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 16.6 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 20.0 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 13.2 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 10.5 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 10.6 |
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.
Funding supports continued digital optimization of the sensor for enhanced threat detection and recognition of the Aided Target Detection and Recognition (AiTDR) algorithms for rapid target acquisition and improved kill chain timeline. Funding also supports continued efforts to promote competition for full rate production.
Read the FY2027 plan →Named performers on project L70
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.